The Marine Conservation Society said historic litter often washes up at this time of year due to the seasonal storms – and that eroding coastal landfill sites are releasing a lot of “retro” rubbish too.<\/p>\n
Spokesperson Catherine Gemmell said: “Litter, especially plastic litter, never disappears and can last a very long time in the marine environment and also travel across oceans.”<\/p>\n
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
“We’ve got the really clean beaches [in Orkney] but we’ve got some really dirty beaches as well,” he added. <\/p>\n
“I’m really not surprised to see that, with a slightly different weather pattern, that we’re getting a lot of the old legacy material.”<\/p>\n
He added: “But we will clean it up in spring. And next year, it will be back. So we will do the exercise again.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Marine Conservation Society said historic litter often washes up at this time of year due to the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":289203,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[273,111,139,69,147],"class_list":["post-289202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289202\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}