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DORSET residents are being encouraged to take part in a challenge to clean up the county. This June, Litter Free Dorset wants to give everyone the chance to improve their local area at a time that suits them. This initiative by the community campaign is supported by Queen Mary University of London and co-financed by the Interreg France (Channel) England programme through the Preventing Plastic Pollution (PPP) project. PPP project leader at Queen Mary University of London, Dr Iwan Jones said: Joining in the challenge can help to clear up your local environment, but providing us with your data can help us to develop solutions to the problem of plastic pollution, which can then be utilised across the channel region as well as further afield.
LITTER Free Dorset are asking people across the county to take part in a challenge throughout June. This challenge, to clean up your local area at a time that suits you, is also part of the citizen s science Preventing Plastic Pollution (PPP) Project, and those taking part will be able to submit data to help academics track plastic pollution across the English Channel region. The initiative is supported by Queen Mary University London. Dr Iwan Jones, PPP project leader at Queen Mary University: Joining in the challenge can help to clear up your local environment, but providing us with your data can help us to develop solutions to the problem of plastic pollution, which can then be utilised across the channel region as well as further afield.
A CAMPAIGN has been launched urging shops to ban sales of disposable barbecues in Dorset in a bid to reduce the risks of devastating wildfires. Litter Free Dorset has launched its campaign - #ChooseToRemoveDisposableBBQs – to support Dorset Council’s efforts to reduce fire risks as the county prepares for its busiest summer ever, as thousands of visitors flock to the coast amid the easing of Covid restrictions. Measures are being put in place as figures showed there are an average of 400 fires on heathlands and in forests every year in Dorset. Litter Free Dorset said more than 1 million disposable barbecues were sold in the UK last year – but warned that they are often disposed of inappropriately, sometimes without being put out, increasing risks of outdoor grass and heathland fires which they said can have ‘devastating environmental impacts’.