It took the tourist hot spot, which boasts a beach that is three-miles-long, just under two months to reach its plastic free goal.īude Cleaner Seas is a community project that cleans up pollution in our seas. Perranporth officially became the second place in Cornwall and the fifth place in the whole of the UK to achieve the Plastic Free Coastline status in February 2018. Led by campaigner Rachel Yates, the decision to turn Penzance plastic free was announced early in December 2017 after local councillors voted unanimously to support the campaign.ĭave Muir at Sennen Surf Company has been leading beach cleans and working with Surfers Against Sewage for years to raise awareness of the plastic problem blighting Cornwall's beaches. Penzance has led the way in the fight against plastic when it became the first town in the UK to achieve the new Surfers Against Sewage (SAS) Plastic Free Coastline status. They've also fought to make a change in Parliament with Plastic Free Parliament and they were highly influential in making the plastic bottle deposit scheme happen.
Surfers Against Sewage (SAS), based in the Wheal Kitty Workshops at St Agnes, are the driving force behind the Plastic Free Communities campaign. We’ve been finding nets of different vintages, there’s a lot of nasty plastics down there,” said GFUK Secretary Christine Grosart. “Every day that we’ve been out diving, we’ve pulled out a serious amount of net – big matted balls of ropes, monofilament, different types of plastic netting all balled up together. The images were shared by marine conservation charity Ghost Fishing UK, which has lifted over half a tonne of potentially fatal lost "ghost" fishing gear from Cornish waters.Ī team of highly trained volunteer divers from Ghost Fishing UK travelled to Cornwall for their annual week-long expedition.ĭiving from Mylor Harbour and Porthkerris Dive Centre, they dived wrecks of SS Epsilon and The Carmarthen, finding both to be massively covered in ghost gear.Īfter five days of diving, the team had successfully retrieved 540 kilograms of mixed net, line, and rope, a figure not including a further four weighty lobster pots. WARNING - this story features graphic and upsetting images. Shocking pictures taken of seals severely injured and killed by "ghost" fishing in gear show the very real dangers in Cornish waters.
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