S1, Ep 4: Battle of the bellyboards

Keep Britain Tidy predicts over 14,000 plastic bodyboards are left behind on beaches across the UK every single summer. Their Ocean Recovery Project was the first to highlight the issue that pollutes our seas and creates vast amounts of waste. Disposable bodyboards are typically shipped across the globe for a few hours use before being dumped. Their broken remains have become such a depressingly familiar sight on beaches across Devon and Cornwall, many seaside businesses have since boycotted their purchase of them. North Devon Council has even backed a campaign to ban them altogether. The Ocean Recovery Project has been collecting and recycling them since 2010. In this episode, we chat to the project's lead Neil Hembrow to find out how much progress is actually being made.