Food wrappers easily escape onto our coastlines, where they can break up into snack-size soft-plastic fragments that our marine life can mistake for food.
Buy snacks in bulk, and use reusable containers and wax wraps for your picnic snacks.
Beers in the sun? The infamous wildlife-trapping six-pack rings are unfortunately reappearing in our liquor stores.
Help avoid a resurgence of this harmful plastic by buying your drinks in cardboard carriers.
Plastic bottle tops are the sixth most common litter item* found on our beaches!
Easy solution: opt for aluminium or glass for your cold drinks.
We find lots of food containers on our beaches (like soy sauce fish pretending to be real fish).
If you’re grabbing takeaways to eat at the beach — or anywhere else, for that matter — let the shop know that you’ll BYO containers to reduce single-use plastics.
We’ve all seen what happens to bins at beaches during summer. Sorry, but putting your rubbish next to the bin doesn’t count.
Own your rubbish and plan to take it home with you, and to make an even bigger impact, pick up some rubbish that doesn’t belong to you, too.
