Race against time to clear Lincolnshire coast of pollution

It has become a race against time to rid the Lincolnshire coast of pollution following the tanker collision in the North Sea. Barry Robinson reports.

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00:00The clearance of pollution washed up on the Lincolnshire coast since the tanker collision in the North Sea

00:07has become a race against time as the breeding season for rare birds begins.

00:14Dozens of volunteers turned out for a beach clean organised by the Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust.

00:21Barry Robinson reports.

00:23After the ship collision off Hull what we're finding is all these big pieces of what they're called nurdles

00:31so they're tiny little plastic nodules and they're usually used to make plastic material

00:37but they've been burnt together and they're washing up on our beaches by the huge amount

00:42so between Skegness and Gibraltar Point the past couple of weeks they've picked up over 11 tonnes of this stuff

00:48so there's a lot of it on the beach. It looks horrible, it's not very nice for the visitors

00:53but also these little plastic pellets they look really bad for wildlife.

00:57They look like little fish eggs or springtails which what the birds as they're flying up and down the coast

01:03that's what they feed on normally so then they will be mistaking these for their food

01:10so it won't be good for them at all.

01:12You say you've got 11 tonnes of it collected?

01:15Not us personally but 11 tonnes have been collected.

01:18Have been collected.

01:19How would this be destroyed afterwards?

01:21We're not sure so the District Council are being really good

01:26so all the stuff we collect we take down to their compound

01:29not sure how they're getting rid of it

01:33so the East Lindsay District Council are the ones to speak to about that.

01:51So thank you for joining us.

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