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Great British Beach Clean

  • Submitted by: Finlay Carson, Galloway and West Dumfries, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party.
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 02 September 2020
  • Motion reference: S5M-22611

That the Parliament supports the Marine Conservation Society’s campaign to keep Scotland’s beaches clean; notes its Great British Beach Clean campaign, which runs from 18 to 25 September 2020; understands that people are being encouraged to clean their own local beaches in smaller groups in line with COVID-19 regulations, which contributes to the Marine Conservation Society’s efforts to record and map the volume of rubbish that is being cleared from beaches; considers this voluntary work to be of immense importance to the natural environment, with 30% of all rubbish on the coastline directly attributed to the public, as well as inadvertent pollution from non-domestic sewage; urges as many of the public as possible to volunteer in the Great British Beach Clean, and thanks the Marine Conservation Society for the important work that it does.


Supported by: Jeremy Balfour, Michelle Ballantyne, Bill Bowman, Miles Briggs, Donald Cameron, Jackson Carlaw, Peter Chapman, Alex Cole-Hamilton, Neil Findlay, Murdo Fraser, Kenneth Gibson, Maurice Golden, Rachael Hamilton, Alison Harris, Gordon Lindhurst, Ruth Maguire, Margaret Mitchell, Alexander Stewart, Maureen Watt, Annie Wells, Brian Whittle