Pictured is one of the decorated drains on Arduthie Road, Stonehaven. If council officers determine the symbols don’t wash away easily and are effective at helping the public think twice about littering, Ms Dickinson said it’s possible the little fish could make their way to other coastal communities. ‘This is not a bin’ Ms Dickinson said: “This began with a local Surfers Against Sewage representative meeting with me, and conversations about plastic in the environment. “She shared with me a photograph of a drain somewhere in England that had a stencil of a seahorse and the message ‘don’t litter’ next to it, and we started to talk about if that’s something we can do here.