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THE SIMPLE FACTS.<br />
THE APP<br />
A plastic bottle may<br />
persist in the marine<br />
environment for more<br />
than 450 years if left on<br />
a beach.<br />
37 percent of marine<br />
litter comes directly<br />
from the public! Refuse,<br />
Reduce, Reuse &<br />
Recycle!<br />
More than £80 million<br />
is spent cleaning up<br />
sanitary waste and fat,<br />
oil and grease from<br />
sewer blockages<br />
Since the enforcement<br />
of the plastic bag<br />
charge in the UK, there<br />
has been an 80% reduction<br />
in the number<br />
of bags given out in<br />
supermarkets<br />
Before the 5p bag<br />
charge, 133 single use<br />
plastic bags were given<br />
out per person every<br />
year in England.<br />
Recycling metal containers<br />
can be 95%<br />
more energy efficient<br />
than making a new can.<br />
The Safer Seas Service<br />
warned of 3,518 pollution<br />
incidents in the<br />
2015 bathing season.<br />
4.5 trillion cigarette<br />
butts litter the environment<br />
every year.<br />
SAM-<br />
Whilst other organizations<br />
report on last<br />
year’s water quality,<br />
the Safer Seas Service<br />
tells beach users<br />
what’s happening at<br />
their favorite beach<br />
in real-time, allowing<br />
them to have the safest<br />
and best fun possible<br />
on our beaches.<br />
“Yeah so all of our events have been for our charity, Surfers Against Sewage,<br />
keeping the British beaches clean, as we all surf. They’ve got a really good App<br />
actually! So, you download it and it lets you know where there has been loads of<br />
crap (so to speak) pumped into the sea and what beaches to avoid. In Wales, I’ve<br />
come back out of the sea because the content was just so horrible. It gives you<br />
rashes and all sorts under your suit.”
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