{"id":303523,"date":"2026-02-18T02:30:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T02:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/303523\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T02:30:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T02:30:07","slug":"its-overwhelming-plastic-from-1960s-canada-washes-up-on-orkneys-sanday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/303523\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;It&#8217;s overwhelming&#8217;: Plastic from 1960s Canada washes up on Orkney&#8217;s Sanday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Marine Conservation Society said historic litter often washes up at this time of year due to the seasonal storms &#8211; and that eroding coastal landfill sites are releasing a lot of &#8220;retro&#8221; rubbish too.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Spokesperson Catherine Gemmell said: &#8220;Litter, especially plastic litter, never disappears and can last a very long time in the marine environment and also travel across oceans.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Meanwhile John Berry, of the Scottish Islands Federation and Greener Orkney, said he was not surprised by the increase in litter on Sanday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We&#8217;ve got the really clean beaches [in Orkney] but we&#8217;ve got some really dirty beaches as well,&#8221; he added. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m really not surprised to see that, with a slightly different weather pattern, that we&#8217;re getting a lot of the old legacy material.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He added: &#8220;But we will clean it up in spring. And next year, it will be back. So we will do the exercise again.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Marine Conservation Society said historic litter often washes up at this time of year due to the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":303524,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[246,61,60,82],"class_list":["post-303523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303523\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}