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A selection of the thousands of balloons found on Brighton Beach after this year’s Pride. Balloons are used to inhale Nitrous Oxide, otherwise known as Laughing Gas, Nos or Hippie Crack. Dolphins, whales, turtles, sea birds and other animals have all been killed by discarded balloons. Thanks to Oceans8Brighton for leading the clean up.

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Discarded lighters are one of the most common things you’ll find if you go beach cleaning. Loads of different colours but one thing in common. They are totally unrecyclable. And Bic alone have made 50 billion of them since 1970.  These lighters come from the collection of artist and campaigner, Louise McCurdy who took me under her environmental wing in 2018. See Lou’s work at loumccurdy.com

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144 plastic bottles tops found in just 45 minutes on the foreshore in Hammersmith, London, which happens to be the most polluted stretch of the River Thames. Coloured plastic is much harder to recycle than clear plastic which begs the question - do colourful lids really make drinks that much more attractive?

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This collection was made one New Year’s Day on a single low tide in St. Ives. It took me a couple of hours to systematically photograph every buoy on the harbour. It was only when assembling them that the range of colours became so evident. The ones washed up on Brighton beach after a storm are predominantly orange. 

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All washed up on Brighton beach in the last month, totally synthetic and leaching plastic fibres into the sea. Do we blame the dog owners for throwing them or the dogs for not retrieving them?

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I got my first camera 40 years ago, and this was what went into it. There’s a great deal of nostalgia amongst photographers for the humble 35mm film canister, which luckily means that there are a host of them stored in fridges all over the world. (Keeping it cold extends its working life). For this collection, I put out a call to the photographic fraternity who came up trumps. Thank you all. 

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These were found in just over an hour the day after Storm Dennis on the beach by Brighton Marina. These balls of fishing line and ghost net have been broken down by the waves, and are only one step from defragmenting into plastic microfibres. Sea organisms like plankton can easily mistake these tiny plastics for food. In turn, many smaller animals and fish depend on plankton as their main food source. 

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64 plastic wreaths made from various lengths of ‘ghost net’ – pieces of fishing gear abandoned by trawlers. I found all of these pieces of rope on a single 45 minute walk along Brighton beach. If left discarded, these fragments of rope can snag wildlife or break down into plastic microfibres. Pop down to the beach now and you’ll probably find some amongst the dried seaweed on the high tide mark.

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The day after I was made redundant from my last job as an advertising art director, I woke up early and looked at Facebook. A friend, who has Goth tendencies, posted a link to eBay for a jar of taxidermy bees, saying it was her ideal Christmas present. I thought, I’m not going to work this week, I can photograph them, before passing them on to her husband. I’d like to thank the bees for helping to give me a new start in life. 

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660 million batteries are bought each year in the UK, an average of 21 per household. When taken to landfills, most batteries release harmful metals such as mercury, lead and cadmium into the environment. Many councils including Brighton don’t recycle them, but there are recycling stations about. I borrowed these batteries from The Green Centre who collect them every Thursday at Brighton’s Open Market. 

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A selection of the thousands of balloons found on Brighton Beach after this year’s Pride. Balloons are used to inhale Nitrous Oxide, otherwise known as Laughing Gas, Nos or Hippie Crack. Dolphins, whales, turtles, seabirds and other animals have all been killed by discarded balloons. Thanks to Oceans8Brighton for leading the clean up.

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