Awful scenes.
The video, taken last weekend, shows a boat sailing in one of the most beautiful parts of Scotland – but when its passengers land at a remote beach on Skye, they are appalled to find it is covered in so much plastic pollution that the ground cannot be seen.
Dale, who runs Caledonian Horticulture, has just set up a charity to supply boats to help beach cleaners round the country remove the debris they collect. The idea to set up a charity to provide boats for beach cleans was born after Flockhart took part in a beach clean at the Isle of Ulva off Mull last year and realised one of the problems was removing what was gathered at remote places. That weekend, 75 cubic metres of marine detritus was collected. A boat supplied by a local fish farm took away the litter but such boats are not always available.
The hope is that eventually most of what is gathered can be recycled. The charity is already working with a company called Ocean Plastic Pots that recycles old fishing ropes and has just crowdfunded to buy machinery that can recycle fishboxes.
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