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EGCP Turning The Plastic Tide @ttptnortheast.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Great to visit Derek at Dekmar Ltd! 🌊♻️ Dekmar turns end-of-life fishing ropes & nets into products like composite decking,pellets & injection-moulded items. Thanks to Derek for the warm welcome, the tour & our 100% recycled plant pots! 🌱 #CircularEconomy #Recycling #Sustainability

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EGCP Turning The Plastic Tide @ttptnortheast.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

A fantastic morning at North Donmouth for our Wildlife Watching & Beach Clean as part of the #FestivalOfTheSea! 🌊 🐬 Harbour porpoises 🦭 Seals 🐦 Lots of birdlife ♻️ 32kg of litter collected A huge thank you to all our amazing volunteers! 💙 #beachcleanup #wildlifewatching #volunteering

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EGCP Turning The Plastic Tide @ttptnortheast.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

🌞 Phew! That was a warm one! Well done to the students who joined us for a clean-up as part of their “Self in the Community” course this afternoon! We found all sorts of litter on the north donmouth side, including a partially burnt Man UTD shirt 👀 🤔 #beachcleanup #beachlitter #litterpick

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EGCP Turning The Plastic Tide @ttptnortheast.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

👏 A big thanks to our volunteers from Borr Drilling & their 4 legged friends for helping clean-up Blackdog Beach earlier today! We found lots of broken up plastics, ropes and nets! #beachcleanup #blackdogbeach #turningtheplastictide #volunteering

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EGCP Turning The Plastic Tide @ttptnortheast.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

🚨 On the 11th June EGCP will be hosting a public event in Stonehaven on our latest publication and body of work the “State of the Coast” (SOTC) along our Grampian region. There’s still time to find out more and sign up via the link below 👍 www.eventbrite.com/e/state-of-t...

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State of the East Grampian Coast (SOTC) Informing & Engaging the Public

Come and learn about the tools EGCP has been developing to understand the state of our coast in 2026

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EGCP Turning The Plastic Tide @ttptnortheast.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

👏 Well done to all of the students from St Machar Academy for taking part in a beach clean along Aberdeen today! 🌞 What a beautiful day to do it too, lots of takeaway packaging, cans, bottles and small plastics, as well as a large metal bar!

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EGCP Turning The Plastic Tide @ttptnortheast.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

👏 Thank you to our volunteers from OPRED who took part in a beach clean at Aberdeen this morning! #beachcleanup #volunteering #beachlitter #environment #thankyou

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EGCP Turning The Plastic Tide @ttptnortheast.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

⭐️ Wow!!!!! Today the P1 class from Ladyloan Primary put in a brilliant effort at Inchcape Park, Arbroath and removed 63.4KGs of litter from the beach!! 👏 Well done to all of them for making such a positive impact! #beachcleanup #environment #volunteering #ladyloanprimary #thankyou

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EGCP Turning The Plastic Tide @ttptnortheast.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

🙌 A big thanks to this lovely bunch of volunteers from Aberdeen Universities Student Recruitment Team! Today they removed 40KGs of litter from the beach, helping to keep on top of the litter along our beautiful coastline! #beachcleanup #litterpicking #volunteering #environment #aberdeenuniversity

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EGCP Turning The Plastic Tide @ttptnortheast.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

👏 Let’s hear it for the Fraserburgh Sea Cadets & Royal Marines Cadets who today removed 329KGs from Cairnbulg Beach and Harbour! #beachcleanup #seacadets #volunteering #marinelitter #littersink

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EGCP Turning The Plastic Tide @ttptnortheast.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

💪 Another excellent effort by the volunteers from Yee’s Hunga Ga Ellon Branch! No easy task lifting some of these items off Buchanhaven Beach in Peterhead! #beachcleanup #beachlitter #litterpicking #environment #volunteering

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EGCP Turning The Plastic Tide @ttptnortheast.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

🙌 What an incredible effort today by this lovely bunch! We had a brilliant turnout for our community clean with Forvie NNR! 🪢 We split into three groups to tackle different sections of the Ythan Estuary & removed 365KGs of waste!!! #cleanup #litterpicking #environment #community #volunteering

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EGCP Turning The Plastic Tide @ttptnortheast.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

🤝 Today we met with volunteers from the Aberdeen Hindu Association - AHA to do a clean-up at Aberdeen beach. 🌞 The weather was fantastic & we collected all sorts of litter from shredded plastics, food wrappers, ropes & a tyre! #beachcleanup #environment #litterpicking #beachlitter #volunteering

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EGCP Turning The Plastic Tide @ttptnortheast.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

🤝 Today we teamed up with St Margarets school for a beach clean in Aberdeen. 🌊 This group of girls were incredibly motivated, they quickly got stuck in & removed 43.5KGs of litter! 🙌 Thank you so much for your efforts today girls! #beachcleanup #beachlitter #environment #litterpicking #outreach

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EGCP Turning The Plastic Tide @ttptnortheast.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Our Educational Outreach Officer, Rosa, got stuck into the role today with her first session out at Mackie Academy in Aberdeen at their Sustainability Fayre! If you're interested in an outreach session, email: rosa.payne@egcp.scot #outreach #education #environment

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EGCP Turning The Plastic Tide @ttptnortheast.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

⭐ What a brilliant effort by volunteers in Fraserburgh this afternoon! 🤝 Thank you so much to Connie for reaching out to us, and to all of the general public and the students from Westfield School who worked really hard to remove 185.5KGs of litter! #beachcleanup #Fraserburgh #volunteering

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Paws on Plastic @pawsonplastic.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Amazing turnout for the #Aberdeen #BeachClean yest which we were delighted to support. 200 volunteers, 165 bags & 1.4 tonnes of waste removed Well done to volunteers & to @ttptnortheast.bsky.social for organising. The beach was in a mess from the storms -so much fishing litter! #scotland

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EGCP Turning The Plastic Tide @ttptnortheast.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

🤩 WOW!! What an incredible effort by all of the volunteers who came along to the beach clean today in Aberdeen! 🚮 Around 200 people (so many people joined it was hard to keep track!), removed 165 bags of rubbish alongside ropes, nets, creels etc! ⚖️ All of this weighed in at a whopping 1.4 tonnes!!

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EGCP Turning The Plastic Tide @ttptnortheast.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

🎉 Please join us to welcome Rosa, our new TTPT Educational Outreach Officer!!! Rosa will be settling into her new role, developing our education programme, and delivering this across schools, colleges, communities etc! #TTPT #EGCP #education #outreach #welcome

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EGCP Turning The Plastic Tide @ttptnortheast.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

❄️ A huge thank you to Audrey and Ron for helping at today’s cleanup at Newburgh! Conditions were a little challenging with the snowfall right before we were about to start!

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EGCP Turning The Plastic Tide @ttptnortheast.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

👏 Yesterday we were joined by another group of students from Bucksburn Academy to tackle the litter along the Don Estuary in Aberdeen. 🌊 They all did really well, getting stuck into the task which formed part of their “Waste to Waves” Project. #beachcleanup #bucksburnacademy #community

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EGCP Turning The Plastic Tide @ttptnortheast.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

🦄 A huge well done to the students from Bucksburn Academy who joined us today to clean-up the Don Estuary in Aberdeen! 🌧️ Despite the wind, rain and hail, all of the students got stuck in and found all sorts of litter along the tide line! #beachcleanup #turningtheplastictide 🌊

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EGCP Turning The Plastic Tide @ttptnortheast.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

📹 Lauren’s talk at the Project One Wave litter summit last November is now available in full on YouTube… 👍 youtu.be/dBEbpPyVh8E?...

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Project One wave : Plastic, Partnerships and Purpose: Safeguarding the Grampian Coast

YouTube video by Paul Watson Foundation UK

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EGCP Turning The Plastic Tide @ttptnortheast.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

🌊 Another amazing year for the EGCP - Turning the Plastic Tide project! Thank you so much to everyone who has participated in this project to date 💙 www.egcp.scot/ttpt-reports

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EGCP Turning The Plastic Tide @ttptnortheast.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

📣 🎉 WE ARE HIRING! PLEASE SHARE! Join the Turning the Plastic Tide team as a PT Educational Outreach Officer! Application deadline 31/12/2025 Full description included in pics below. #jobopportunity #hiring #educationaloutreach

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New Scientist @newscientist.com · 08/12/2025

Inspired by natural polymers like DNA, chemists have devised a way to engineer plastic so it breaks down when it is no longer needed, rather than polluting the environment

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Plastic can be programmed to have a lifespan of days, months or years

Inspired by natural polymers like DNA, chemists have devised a way to engineer plastic so it breaks down when it is no longer needed, rather than polluting the environment

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EGCP Turning The Plastic Tide @ttptnortheast.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

👏 Please join us to say a big thank you and well done to the S3 pupils People & Society Class from Peterhead Academy! Today they put in a great effort at Craigewan Beach and removed all of this rubbish in under an hour! #beachclean #marinelitter #peterheadacademy #craigewan #peterhead

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EGCP Turning The Plastic Tide @ttptnortheast.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

🎥 🌊 We had a great time yesterday evening with Paws on Plastic at the screening of Shaping Our Shores at Mackie Academy (shout out to Megan Douglas for facilitating)! Thank you to all that attended, and for the discussions after the film! 🙌 #beachclean #marinelitter #shapingourshores

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EGCP Turning The Plastic Tide @ttptnortheast.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

👏 A HUGE THANK YOU to our volunteers who attended our collaborative clean-up with @rspbscotland.bsky.social last Friday at Craigewan, Peterhead! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 A huge pile AGAIN including over 40 tyres!!!! #beachcleanup #volunteering #changemakers #environment

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EGCP Turning The Plastic Tide @ttptnortheast.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

👏 Thank you to the geography pupils from Bucksburn Academy who did a clean-up and environmental survey of Donmouth Beach yesterday! 🫣 Lots of small items including 30 year old McDonalds packaging!!!! ⚠️ And sadly 4 syringes and needles! #beachcleanup #environmentalawareness #volunteering

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EGCP Turning The Plastic Tide @ttptnortheast.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

🤩 Shout out to Aberdeen Laundry Services for their beach cleaning efforts along the Donmouth in Aberdeen recently. Well done to all involved!! 👏 #beachcleanup #makingadifference #volunteering

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EGCP Turning The Plastic Tide @ttptnortheast.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

🙌 Thank you to all of the volunteers from Weatherford who joined Lauren last week to clean up the south side of the Don Mouth Estuary! #beachcleanup #aberdeen #donmouth #weatherford #eastgrampiancoastalpartnership #turningtheplastictide

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EGCP Turning The Plastic Tide @ttptnortheast.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

👍 Yesterday we were joined by another group of students taking part in the Duke of Edinburgh awards! 👏 Tackling the abundance of microplastics and polystyrene (one student counted 300 pieces in just a small area)! #eastgrampiancoastalpartnership #turningtheplastictide #volunteering

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EGCP Turning The Plastic Tide @ttptnortheast.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

👍 Well done to this group of students working towards their Duke of Edinburgh awards, they joined us yesterday to help clean up the North Donmouth area. #eastgrampiancoastalpartnership #turningtheplastictide #volunteering #dukeofedinburgh

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EGCP Turning The Plastic Tide @ttptnortheast.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

🙌 Our final clean-up for Climate Week North East this afternoon! We met at Whinnyfold and headed along the coastal path to access the more isolated Broadhaven Bay. #beachcleanup #climateweeknortheast #eastgrampiancoastalpartnership #turningtheplastictide

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EGCP Turning The Plastic Tide @ttptnortheast.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

💪 Good Grief!!!! Today we shifted this incredible amount of litter off Craigewan Beach, Peterhead! It took 4 of us 2 hours to gather all of this from the beach and dunes, carry it across the bridge ready for the council to uplift & weigh tomorrow! #beachcleanup #egcp #turningtheplastictide

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EGCP Turning The Plastic Tide @ttptnortheast.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

🤩 Wow what a start to our Climate Week North East beach cleans! This lunchtime we tackled Fraserburgh, with a small but committed team of volunteers that worked incredibly hard to remove this huge volume of rubbish! #beachcleanup #eastgrampiancoastalpartnership #turningtheplastictide

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EGCP Turning The Plastic Tide @ttptnortheast.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

🌞 A beautiful morning for a clean-up along Aberdeen Beach! 👏 Thank you so much to our volunteers from Boskalis Subsea Services for helping to remove a range of litter from microplastics, to cigarette butts and even a couple of barriers! #beachcleanup #litter #turningtheplastictide

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EGCP Turning The Plastic Tide @ttptnortheast.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

🎉 WOW! We had an incredible evening last night attending the Inspiring Aberdeenshire awards by Aberdeenshire Council ! We are honoured and very pleased to announce that we won the “Beautiful Aberdeenshire Environmental Award” presented to us by Cllr Sarah Dickinson !

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EGCP Turning The Plastic Tide @ttptnortheast.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

🐟 We have had a fantastic day at #SeaFest Peterhead ! A huge thank you to everyone who stopped by for a chat & to those who purchased Behaviour Change bracelets, maps & postcards in support of our beach cleaning project 🙌 ⭐️ Well done to the organisers of SeaFest for another fantastic event!

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EGCP Turning The Plastic Tide @ttptnortheast.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

📣 🐟 We will be at SeaFest Peterhead tomorrow! Come and say hello and if possible support our non-profit by purchasing one (or more!) of our super popular bracelets made from fishing nets recovered during scottish beach cleans, handmade by the talented Behaviour Change team!

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EGCP Turning The Plastic Tide @ttptnortheast.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

👍 Earlier today Lauren dropped off some beach cleaning kit to the Cadet Training Centre in Boddam for use by the sea cadets over the next couple of weeks. #beachcleanup #volunteering #seacadets #eastgrampiancoastalpartnership #turningtheplastictide

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EGCP Turning The Plastic Tide @ttptnortheast.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

👍 Well done to the St Machar Academy’s Eco Master-Class students! 🚮 They joined us yesterday at Aberdeen Beach for a clean-up, we found lots of small bits of litter and a large chunk of metal too! #beachcleanup #marinelitter #plasticpollution #eastgrampiancoastalpartnership #turningtheplastictide

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EGCP Turning The Plastic Tide @ttptnortheast.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

🤩 A phenomenal effort today at Rattray Head by this small but mighty team from Balfour Beatty! 🚜 We had brilliant support from Aberdeenshire Council (shout out to Derek for his tireless work with the tractor!) #beachclean #marinelitter #eastgrampiancoastalpartnership #turningtheplastictide

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EGCP Turning The Plastic Tide @ttptnortheast.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

⭐️ An excellent start to the week! TTPT Project Manager Lauren was at St Machar Academy delivering a talk as part of the school’s “Eco Master-Class” project! #plasticpollution #marinelitter #education #outreach #eastgrampiancoastalpartnership #turningtheplastictide #stmacharacademy

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EGCP Turning The Plastic Tide @ttptnortheast.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

🙌 A productive clean-up this morning with one of the directors of the River Ythan Trust ! We were taking a closer look either side of the bridge over the Ythan, part of the Forvie National Nature Reserve. #plasticpollution #cleanup #riverythantrust #ythan

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EGCP Turning The Plastic Tide @ttptnortheast.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

1/3 Volunteers from SSEN Transmission Eastern Green Link 2 project together with their contractors BAM and David Smith Contractors put in an incredible effort at Sandford Bay on the 27th August. #beachclean #beachlitter #marinelitter #plasticpollution #sandfordbay

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