A fantastic morning out with our Director Francis delivering sea grass mapping training with Findhorn Watershed Initiative volunteers 🌱🌊

Lots of new records on the Project Seagrass Spotter App too!

Thanks to NatureScot for our equipment funding!

Acting on a tip off from a local diver who saw some seagrass and n Burghead Bay 10 years ago, together with Burghead Sub Aqua Club we went to look for it. Quite a big search area but we found some! #seagrass #citizenscience #conservation #Burghead #marine

ICYMI: We're at #INC4 for the #GlobalPlasticsTreaty , and we hosted an event at the Senedd to discuss the ambitions for a Deposit Return Scheme in Wales.

Thank you to everyone who contributed to/attend our events.

Let's continue working together towards a more circular future ♻️

🚨 Let's talk about disposable 'fast tech'

In the UK, 5 million vapes are discarded weekly but the ban is a step in the right direction

Better corporate responsibility, recycling infrastructure, & incentives are crucial

The global plastic treaty can guide this #INC4

🌊 GOOD OCEAN NEWS! 🥳

I’m sick of picking up bottles and cans from beaches and riverbanks.

A #DepositReturnScheme will significantly reduce this. ♻️

An important step forward. 👏🏻🌊

Wales’ recycling record is one of the best in the world.

Yesterday, Climate Change Secretary, Huw Irranca-Davies met a range of environmental groups & set out our plans to go even further by bringing forward a deposit return scheme covering plastic, aluminium, steel, & glass.

📣 Change of date 📣 Our first Community Gathering will now take place on Sat 7th September at DCA!

If you're 16-25, living in Scotland and want to hone your marine policy skills and help build a community of young marine advocates, sign up now 👉 bit.ly/yscs-gathering

Great to hear today that Wales is going to be including glass in its new Deposit Return Scheme – Diolch yn Fawr Cymru!
gov.wales/written-statem…

Huw Irranca-Davies Welsh Government Climate Change @welshgovernment

One million bottles and cans have been recycled as part of Lidl's return scheme, which was set up in Glasgow three months ago♻️

Well done, everyone🎉 #DepositReturnScheme

uk.news.yahoo.com/supermarkets-s…

The #RestorationForth team have just a few more oyster biosecurity sessions before they wrap up for the summer! Join us at Heriot-Watt University sign up: eventbrite.com/cc/restoration…

Thank you! We have raised just under £10,000 with our Big Give #GreenMatchFund campaign 🥳🥳

Director Katherine Jones wanted to share a message with you.

It’s great that we have legislation in place now committing to a deposit return system. And very disappointing that it is so unambitious.

Marine Conservation Society found glass bottles on over 50% of beach cleans last year. We need glass bottles included, and we need action now.

The next of our Marine Conservation Society #Voicefortheocean youth events is live to book! Free to attend, but limited spaces.

Come celebrate #WorldOceanDay with us! 🌊💙🌍
📌 Lift Islington, London Lift Islington
🗓️ 8th June 2024
⏲️ 10am - 2.30pm

eventbrite.co.uk/e/world-ocean-…

📷 Billy Barraclough

Graeme High is officially an Ocean Friendly School! 🐳 A huge congratulations to our Green Team Eco Club for their hard work and commitment to this Marine Conservation Society #RRS #Article24

There's a limited amount of time left to secure residential tickets for #SeaScot24 - don't miss out on your chance to join this important conference on Scotland's marine policy landscape 🌊

Big congratulations to Graeme High and fantastic to see so many schools completing their Ocean Friendly School Award! We love seeing everyone's submissions. We are now open for September enrolments, register here: mcsuk.org/what-you-can-d…

Fantastic to see students at Graeme High School taking action for our ocean! A huge congratulations to you all 🌊

If you want to get involved next year, register for the Marine Conservation Society #OceanFriendlySchools Award from September 2024 👇

mcsuk.org/ofs

#OceanOptimism Geography At Graeme High

WDC Shorewatch volunteers are dedicated & awesome, they just reached an amazing milestone of 100,000 Shorewatches. One watch is 10 mins of scanning the sea - so that's the equivalent of *ONE MILLION MINUTES* of effort. Thank you to all 1053 people who contributed around Scotland!