Newquay Mayor Drew Creek discusses the Bodyboard Breakdown event

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00:00So we're here today at Newquay Junior School and we've got about 40 7 to 11 year old children

00:06helping us break down these polystyrene body boards we've been collecting on the beaches

00:10across our town over the summer months. These things are really harmful to our environment,

00:15the polystyrene breaks down into little balls, a bit like the packaging you see at home,

00:19and we can see it here in the hall today, it's like snow across the hall floor.

00:24The fish obviously eat this material and it ends up killing them and it's really harmful to the

00:29environment but not only that it's a safety issue we've all seen people trying to ride these boards

00:35in our you know in our fairly ferocious waves here in Newquay and on the first ride they break and

00:40what we hear from the RNLI is that they are one of the biggest reasons why they have to dive in and

00:45rescue people because the board has broken or the leash has snapped and so we need to really end the

00:51sale of these things. We've been engaging with businesses locally invited them here today to

00:55see the harm that these things cause and I'm really pleased that there are local businesses here in

01:00Newquay that even offer these the the good quality body boards for for no cost to people to borrow

01:08rather than purchasing one of these awful polystyrene body boards but the component parts of these boards

01:12here today will get recycled by Keep Britain Tidy and turned into other products so that they don't harm

01:18the environment