{"id":510614,"date":"2026-04-03T10:49:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T10:49:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/510614\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T10:49:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T10:49:16","slug":"plastic-still-biggest-pollutant-on-guernsey-beaches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/510614\/","title":{"rendered":"Plastic still biggest pollutant on Guernsey beaches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Plastic remains the most common material polluting Guernsey&#8217;s shores, making up 77% of rubbish, a report found.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In its annual marine litter report, the Clean Earth Trust said data covering the 2025 calendar year showed 30,156 items were removed from Guernsey&#8217;s coastline, with an average of 1,005 items found per mile of coastline.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Paul Bugden, policy officer for the Clean Earth Trust said there was &#8220;no room for complacency in tackling the island&#8217;s marine litter problem&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The total number of items collected on Guernsey&#8217;s beaches has almost doubled compared to the previous year and volunteers taking part in beach cleans has almost tripled since 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Plastic remains the most common material polluting Guernsey&#8217;s shores, making up 77% of rubbish, a report found. In&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":510615,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-510614","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-environment","9":"tag-science","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=510614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510614\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/510615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}