Our Trash is Your Trash | Litter Across the Seas | KeepBritainTidy Ambassador Sophie Neville Ep264
Channel: Seek Sustainable Japan | JJWalsh
Date: 11/06/2021

Sophie Neville has been cleaning up the beaches in her area for as long as she can remember. Some of the garbage she finds thrown down or out of cars by those who litter as well as washed in from the sea are typical to what we find in Japan, but some things are completely unique. 

Although Sophie is not in Japan, there are so many important things we can learn from CleanUp Heroes like Sophie even from across the world, there are so many similarities we share with the litter on our beaches and pollution in our oceans.

Key Points: 
+ Plastic bags and materials which end up in the water too regularly need to be more expensive or banned to deter the overuse and over-littering in our waters.
+ Fishing lines from both commercial fishing nets and hobby fishers are a huge problem - we need to demand all new nets and fishing gear be made of natural, biodegradable materials and have penalties for industries that break the rules.
+ Be safe when cleaning up beaches or riversides - wear protective gloves and use a grabber, call authorities for help if things look too dangerous to collect yourself.
+ Junk food and drink containers/wrappers + Alcohol are items most often littered by people who have no environmental ethics, so these should be the first products we demand to see change to less damaging packaging. 

Read more about Sophie Neville and her CleanUp adventures on her excellent blog:
https://sophieneville.net/2021/04/24/dairy-of-a-litter-picker-we-will-fight-on-the-beaches/ 

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