🤩 Wow what a start to our Climate Week North East beach cleans! This lunchtime we tackled Fraserburgh, with a small but committed team of volunteers that worked incredibly hard to remove this huge volume of rubbish! #beachcleanup #eastgrampiancoastalpartnership #turningtheplastictide

🌞 A beautiful morning for a clean-up along Aberdeen Beach! 👏 Thank you so much to our volunteers from Boskalis Subsea Services for helping to remove a range of litter from microplastics, to cigarette butts and even a couple of barriers! #beachcleanup #litter #turningtheplastictide

👏 Thank you to all of our volunteers who came to our clean at Tarlair yesterday with Macduff Marine Aquarium! #beachcleanup #GreatBritishBeachClean #community #collaboration #eastgrampiancoastalpartnership #turningtheplastictide

🎉 WOW! We had an incredible evening last night attending the Inspiring Aberdeenshire awards by Aberdeenshire Council ! We are honoured and very pleased to announce that we won the “Beautiful Aberdeenshire Environmental Award” presented to us by Cllr Sarah Dickinson !

🐟 We have had a fantastic day at #SeaFest Peterhead ! A huge thank you to everyone who stopped by for a chat & to those who purchased Behaviour Change bracelets, maps & postcards in support of our beach cleaning project 🙌 ⭐️ Well done to the organisers of SeaFest for another fantastic event!

📣 🐟 We will be at SeaFest Peterhead tomorrow! Come and say hello and if possible support our non-profit by purchasing one (or more!) of our super popular bracelets made from fishing nets recovered during scottish beach cleans, handmade by the talented Behaviour Change team!

👍 Earlier today Lauren dropped off some beach cleaning kit to the Cadet Training Centre in Boddam for use by the sea cadets over the next couple of weeks. #beachcleanup #volunteering #seacadets #eastgrampiancoastalpartnership #turningtheplastictide

👍 Well done to the St Machar Academy’s Eco Master-Class students! 🚮 They joined us yesterday at Aberdeen Beach for a clean-up, we found lots of small bits of litter and a large chunk of metal too! #beachcleanup #marinelitter #plasticpollution #eastgrampiancoastalpartnership #turningtheplastictide

🤩 A phenomenal effort today at Rattray Head by this small but mighty team from Balfour Beatty! 🚜 We had brilliant support from Aberdeenshire Council (shout out to Derek for his tireless work with the tractor!) #beachclean #marinelitter #eastgrampiancoastalpartnership #turningtheplastictide

⭐️ An excellent start to the week! TTPT Project Manager Lauren was at St Machar Academy delivering a talk as part of the school’s “Eco Master-Class” project! #plasticpollution #marinelitter #education #outreach #eastgrampiancoastalpartnership #turningtheplastictide #stmacharacademy

🙌 A productive clean-up this morning with one of the directors of the River Ythan Trust ! We were taking a closer look either side of the bridge over the Ythan, part of the Forvie National Nature Reserve. #plasticpollution #cleanup #riverythantrust #ythan

1/3 Volunteers from SSEN Transmission Eastern Green Link 2 project together with their contractors BAM and David Smith Contractors put in an incredible effort at Sandford Bay on the 27th August. #beachclean #beachlitter #marinelitter #plasticpollution #sandfordbay

🙌 A HUGE thank you to the volunteers from PBS, who took part in a clean-up along Aberdeen Beach today! ⚡️ All of the volunteers had loads of enthusiasm and were really passionate about keeping the beach clean and tidy for Aberdeen residents and visitors (humans and wildlife alike)! ➡️

👍 A big thanks to our volunteers from The Royal Bank of Scotland who helped us keep on top of the litter at Aberdeen Beach earlier today! ⚖️ 37 KGs of rubbish removed from the tide line and dune area! We have now removed over 120 tonnes of litter from the Grampian Coastline, every clean-up helps!

🙌 Another excellent clean-up effort at Aberdeen by Acumen Financial Planning! Great to work with this bunch again and the beach front now has 44KG less waste than it did earlier! 👏 #beachcleanup #volunteering #aberdeen #acumen #eastgrampiancoastalpartnership #turningtheplastictide

🤩 We had a great time with our friends from The Breadmaker! 🌞 This is the third year in a row that they have volunteered their time for a clean-up of Aberdeen’s beach and boulevard and every time they’ve managed to score a great weather day! #beachcleanup #thebreadmaker #aberdeen #volunteering

Some of our amazing community members from the ship Fryderyk Chopin supporting our beach clean work and sustainability mission! Get your own bracelet with rope sourced from Craigewan or Cruden Bay today, Monday and Tuesday at stall 27! Stock is selling fast so don’t miss out! 🌊🐟🐙 #TallShips2025

Well done to all the volunteers from our #bronzesponsor2025 🏆Vattenfall 👏 The grand total was 53kg and includes a shopping trolley and lots of odd socks ! 🧦 Thank you for all your enthusiasm and high energy today ! We love to see it ! 😃 #corporateevents #beachcleanup #teamwork

Yesterday we met Gillian Martin MSP and Niamh Burns to conduct a tide line survey along the Ythan Estuary in Newburgh. #beachclean #beachsurvey #plastics #environment

We have been mega busy this weekend! With another beach clean at Newburgh. Thank you to the team and families from SERICA who helped removed 14kg of mostly microplastics off the beach ! Many thank to SERICA for also being one of our 2025 sponsors! #beachlife #teamwork #beachclean

A big thank you to the volunteers from Borr Drilling who helped with a #beachclean at Aberdeen We came across a lot of cigarette butts and tiny pieces of litter, and a fair bit of broken glass!

🙌 Please join us in saying a huge well done to all of the children from St Fergus Primary School who today did an incredible #beachclean effort at Scotstown Beach! They worked collaboratively in groups and removed 58KGs of litter including 2 large sections of fishing net! What a brilliant effort!

👍 Thanks to Asda Peterhead for hosting us today for their #EnvironmentalAwarenessEvent ! 💬 Lauren had some good discussions with shoppers & staff about beach litter as well as our incredible local wildlife, & did an impromptu litter pick around the grounds too! #asda #community #litterpick

🙌 A big thank you to the Fulkrum volunteer teams from Aberdeen for their excellent efforts at Cruden Bay this week! 🪏 Everything from small microplastics, sections of rope, a plastic door, netting and even a toy soldier were found and removed! #beachclean #volunteering #fulkrum

🌞 Thank you to our volunteers from EODEX this morning who collected 25KGs of litter from the North end of Aberdeen Beach! An assortment of bottles, cans, disposable BBQs etc all removed 👍 #beachclean #eodex #volunteering

Well done to the pupils from Old Machar Academy who helped clean up 7.4kg of micro plastics off Donmouth beach this morning! #beachclean #getinvolved #beachlitter #volunteersmakeadifference

Project One Wave

🌊 Today is World Ocean Day 🤿 This short clip showcases just a tiny fraction of the incredible life we have in Scottish coastal waters. There is so much out there, and it is all worthy of our protection! #worldoceanday2025 #ocean #underwater #saltwaterlife #divediscoverdefend #scotland

🙌 A big thank you to the volunteer team from the Scottish Government Marine Directorate, who joined us yesterday at Blackdog Beach to remove 82KGs of litter from the beach! #marinedirectorate #beachcleanup #beachlitter 🌊

🙌 Well done to the volunteers from Unique Group who took part in two cleans at the Donmouth in Aberdeen yesterday and today! Collectively they removed 64.7 KGs of litter! 😉 Team 2 today just edged the win with 37.2 KGs! #beachcleanup #community #environment #uniquegroup

🐬 Yesterday we joined Greyhope Bay for a tideline marine litter survey with a small community group & WOW did we all get a treat!! The Dolphins put on an incredible display! #beachlittersurvey #dolphins #pipefish #wildlife #nature #aberdeen

👍 well done to our volunteers from the ASL Dept of Ellon Academy who today took part in a #beachclean at Balmedie! We also tried a bit of magnet fishing in the burn too (no historical artifacts found this time sadly 😉 ) Thanks to The Sand Bothy & Balmedie Beach Wheelchairs for assisting us today 🙌

Thank you to the super team from Balfour Beatty who joined us for a #beachclean at Peterhead this morning! The volunteers got stuck in , even digging up a huge tyre ! An extra thanks to Balfour Beatty for sponsoring our EGCP - Turning the Plastic Tide project too! #WorldEnvironmentDay

✏️ We had a great time this morning working with Greyhope Bay and University of Aberdeen postgrads carrying out a litter survey and beach clean 🚬 So many microplastics and heaps of cigarette butts too! #beachclean #littersurvey #egcp #ttpt #greyhopebay

⭐️ WOW!! Check out this incredible volume of litter that Yee's Hung Ga Ellon Branch & Yee's Hung Ga Peterhead removed from Ugie Beach this morning! 2 hours solid effort from the Kung Fu crew 💪 A massive thank you to all our volunteers today, what a huge difference! #beachclean #yeeshungga #kungfu

🎥 🐚 🚣‍♂️ A great day yesterday discussing marine litter and plastic pollution with the awesome Sea Change Row and Seashell crew! #marinelitter #plasticpollution #seachange #seashell #eastgrampiancoastalpartnership #turningtheplastictide

🙌 Well done to our volunteers from the ‘Engage Service’, part of the Aberdeen Foyer charity! Today they took part in a beach clean, whilst concurrently conducting a #flapperskate eggcase search and then had a closer look at the beach sediment for microplastics! #beachclean #engage #environment

👏🎉 A huge collaborative effort last week at Cairnbulg! ⚖️ 5.2 tonnes removed! A huge thanks to the Harbour Energy team! & a special thanks to Stuart from Fraserburgh Harbour who did an incredible job driving the bobcat! Plus amazing volunteers from the village & Seashell! #beachclean #community

🙌 What an incredible effort today by the UK Recruitment, Access & Outreach Team from the University of Aberdeen ! They managed to remove 334KGs of litter from the Ugie Estuary in Peterhead. #beachcleanup #environment #teamwork

Beach clean season is a go! 🚀 A HUGE thank you to all the volunteers who helped out at Forvie NNR today! 2 teams tackled Forvie Beach & Estuary removing 250KG of litter ! 🏋️🏋🏻‍♀️ #beachcleanchampions #SchoolHolidays #familytime

⭐️ Please join us in saying a HUGE well done to all of the P1s & P6s from Ladyloan Primary, who today put in a brilliant effort cleaning up the Inchcape Park & Beach Area! There were lots of plastic wrappers, polystyrene, balloons and a few broken creels! #beachclean #community #outreach #school

🎉 We had a brilliant time on Tuesday launching EGCPs new project “State of the East Grampian Coast” website! A HUGE thanks to our student interns for all of their hard work on this, we hope its a useful resource for all: www.stateofthecoast.scot #StateOfTheCoast #Community #Aberdeen #Aberdeenshire

The plastic pollution crisis in our ocean is set to get worse. A new @oceana.bsky.social report reveals the shocking statistics behind the world’s most prolific plastic polluter Coca-Cola. It estimate Coke will drive 600 million kilos of plastic pollution to our seas annually by 2030‼️🌍⚠️

🎓 Yesterday our TTPT project manager delivered a Beach Litter Workshop to students at the Uni of Aberdeen 🧩A presenter led approach, with interactive break-out sessions, led to great engagement & some thought provoking discussions about the challenges of #beachlitter along the Grampian coastline 🌊

New study finds " the presence of #microplastics reduces the photosynthetic efficiency across terrestrial, marine, and freshwater ecosystems." Analysis shows between 4 & 14% of the globe's wheat, rice, and maize crops are being lost due to microplastics. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

On Saturday night, we were at the premiere of the incredible documentary 'Shaping Our Shores', produced by Caledonian Horticulture. The film highlights the vital work being done by SCCU, alongside other charities and passionate individuals, to combat plastic pollution along Scotland’s coastline.

🤝Yesterday we attended the sustainability fair at #MackieAcademy organised by the Wood Foundation Excelerate BCSO! We were interviewed about sustainability and spoke to over 200 enthusiastic S1 pupils. It was fantastic to see other local people and organisations there too like @pawsonplastic

A fab day at #MackieAcademy! S1 Sustainability Fair chatting with 200 pupils & the other orgs: Mike Scotland @ttptnortheast.bsky.social Bay Fish & Chips,Replenish, #Stonehaven Horizon @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social & Maya Vertigans + a litterpick with S2s removing 2kgs #litter #dogsofbluesky

🐬 1/2 This morning Ian & Lauren S. met up with Belle, the environmental manager from the Port of Aberdeen, to discuss plans for INNS (Invasive Non-native Species) monitoring in the harbour.

👀 A team of Japanese researchers have made a significant breakthrough in the fight against plastic pollution by developing a new type of plastic that dissolves completely in seawater. sustainabilitymag.com/articles/how...