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Tiny Scottish island community turns tide on beach plastics

For hundreds of years, an island community has made good the wares that have washed up on its shores. Today it’s not pieces of shipwreck that get a new purpose, but the plastics that now blight its long coastline. ....

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Scotland's finest: island-hopping in the Orkneys | Scotland holidays


Last modified on Mon 31 May 2021 02.02 EDT
This morning, before breakfast, I was out on the water: silk-smooth in front, and streaming away behind, the ferry cutting a path from the island of Hoy, via the island of Graemsay, to the island where I live, confusingly called Mainland.
Though this name creates some conversational ambiguity (are they referring to mainland Orkney, or the Scottish mainland, seven miles to the south across the Pentland Firth?), I’ve always admired the way it subtly shifts the centre of gravity closer to home. By considering all else relative to our own largest island, it resets the dial on what it means to be remote. Remote, us? Hardly. We’re at the heart of the action. ....

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