Litter picking - day 4

Today we decided to do a litter pick along the strand line on the beach. Along the way, we also picked up some objects of interest too. We were amazed at the large number of small pieces of litter we found, especially plastic, which you wouldn't necessarily notice unless you were looking for them. We took the litter home, sorted it into piles and counted the pieces. We had 52 pieces of plastic, including lots of shreds of single-use cups; 17 pieces of fishing net and line, including one line with a hook attached, and 17 pieces of other litter, including paper, polystyrene and metal. This was from a fairly short stretch of beach, about quarter of a mile long. Among the natural items washed up from the sea that we found on the shoreline were a 'mermaid's purse' skate egg case, a whelk shell, a slipper limpet shell, bladderwrack seaweed, cuttlefish and a whelk egg case.