There is now a petition calling for a national ban expanded polystyrene bodyboards after 16,000 of them were left on our beaches last year.
480 snapped plastic bodyboards were recovered from just two south-west beaches by Keep Britain Tidy ‘Beach Care’ programme. The bodyboards, were collected from Watergate Bay in Cornwall and Croyde Bay in Devon, and were found littered on beaches, dumped in sand dunes or left abandoned beside rubbish bins.
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