The Scottish Costal Clean Up team continue to be busy with the removal of creels and have been working alongside the East Lothian Ranger service to tackle the issue. Throughout winter they will be delivering educational workshops into schools and early year settings. School visits can be followed up with beach cleans or source to sea litterpicks and can be adapted to suit different year groups. During December they joined forces with Keep Scotland Beautiful and will be running a litterpick together this month as part of their ‘week of action’ and Up Stream Battle Campaign. This is a great opportunity to highlight the amount of marine litter that comes from land and to work together with another organisation who is doing great work.

It’s been a busy past few weeks for The Scottish Coastal Clean Up who have been busy trying to clear away the huge amounts of debris that washed up after the recent stormy weather. One of the main issues the team have been dealing with is the many creels (lobster pots) that have washed ashore. They have been finding large tangles of creels all along the east Lothian coast and have been lucky enough to have use of a Hagglund vehicle to help shift the biggest piles. The team have been trying to reunite any salvageable creels with their owners and build up a map of where all the washed-up creels are. The map will be shared with the local Rangers, fishers and landowners and to hopefully make it easier to coordinate efforts to remove them all over time.