UK Nature and Environment

422 readers

50 users here now

General Instance Rules:

No racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia or xenophobia.
No incitement of violence or promotion of violent ideologies.
No harassment, dogpiling or doxxing of other users.
Do not share intentionally false or misleading information.
Do not spam or abuse network features.

Community Specific Rules:

Keep posts UK-specific. There are other places on Lemmy to post articles which relate to global environmental issues (e.g. slrpnk.net).
Keep comments in English so that they can be appropriately moderated.

Note: Our temporary logo is from The Wildlife Trusts. We are not officially associated with them.

Our winter banner is a shot of Shotley marshes, Suffolk by GreyShuck.

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

Kim

GreyShuck

Plastic bottles logged on Guernsey beaches outnumber fish species (www.bbc.co.uk)

submitted 23 hours ago by GreyShuck to c/nature

1 comments fedilink hide all child comments

A marine biologist has recorded more types of plastic bottle washed up on Guernsey's beaches than the total variety of fish in UK waters.

In the last seven years Richard Lord said he had logged more than 330 types - the same number as the total of different fish species recorded by the UK government, external.

He said: "Plastic water bottles are a single use item that get discarded in unimaginable amounts and it litters the environment all over the world."

top 1 comments

sorted by: hot top controversial new old

[–] The_Che_Banana@beehaw.org 1 points 22 hours ago

Unbelievable how you consumers are too lazy to recycle! Unreal, the recycling process is the program that creates the cost driven system away from the poor, poor companies and onto the end user and their communities and...tsk tsk, you don't even do it.

Don't you care about the environment?

Shame.