Seaton kayaker Roy Beal is on a clean and safe oceans campaign
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Intrepid Seaton kayaker Roy Beal will set off on a mission next month to raise awareness of the impact of plastic on our waterways and oceans and promote outdoor and water sports safety.
He will be supporting environmental charity Keep Britain Tidy’s Great British Spring Clean – encouraging hundreds of thousands of people to take part in the country’s biggest environmental action campaign and do a million miles of litter-picking between them, as well as Plan B Charity, who promote and advocate outdoor pursuit safety with Ocean Signal.
A Devon village has become the first in the UK to ban polystyrene body boards after residents petitioned to have them scrapped in order to protect marine wildlife.
Westward Ho! near Bideford in Devon has self-imposed the polystyrene board ban on every independent retailer in the coastal village in a bid to protect the environment.
Single-use polystyrene boards can harm marine wildlife which often confuse plastic particles for food.
Single-use polystyrene boards can harm marine wildlife which often confuse plastic particles for food (file image)
An online referendum last November resulted a landslide vote that saw over 97 per cent of 1,600 local residents calling for a board ban, according to The Telegraph.