EGCP Turning The Plastic Tide
@ttptnortheast.bsky.social
🌊 East Grampian Coastal Partnership is a not-for-profit environmental organisation.
🚮 We run the TTPT project which facilitates beach cleaning & educational awareness to tackle coastal litter in the North East of 🏴
🚮 We run the TTPT project which facilitates beach cleaning & educational awareness to tackle coastal litter in the North East of 🏴
📣 🎉 WE ARE HIRING! PLEASE SHARE!
Join the Turning the Plastic Tide team as a PT Educational Outreach Officer!
Application deadline 31/12/2025 Full description included in pics below.
#jobopportunity #hiring #educationaloutreach
Join the Turning the Plastic Tide team as a PT Educational Outreach Officer!
Application deadline 31/12/2025 Full description included in pics below.
#jobopportunity #hiring #educationaloutreach
December 9, 2025 at 11:48 AM
📣 🎉 WE ARE HIRING! PLEASE SHARE!
Join the Turning the Plastic Tide team as a PT Educational Outreach Officer!
Application deadline 31/12/2025 Full description included in pics below.
#jobopportunity #hiring #educationaloutreach
Join the Turning the Plastic Tide team as a PT Educational Outreach Officer!
Application deadline 31/12/2025 Full description included in pics below.
#jobopportunity #hiring #educationaloutreach
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Inspired by natural polymers like DNA, chemists have devised a way to engineer plastic so it breaks down when it is no longer needed, rather than polluting the environment
Plastic can be programmed to have a lifespan of days, months or years
Inspired by natural polymers like DNA, chemists have devised a way to engineer plastic so it breaks down when it is no longer needed, rather than polluting the environment
www.newscientist.com
December 8, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Inspired by natural polymers like DNA, chemists have devised a way to engineer plastic so it breaks down when it is no longer needed, rather than polluting the environment
👏 Please join us to say a big thank you and well done to the S3 pupils People & Society Class from Peterhead Academy!
Today they put in a great effort at Craigewan Beach and removed all of this rubbish in under an hour!
#beachclean #marinelitter #peterheadacademy #craigewan #peterhead
Today they put in a great effort at Craigewan Beach and removed all of this rubbish in under an hour!
#beachclean #marinelitter #peterheadacademy #craigewan #peterhead
November 26, 2025 at 4:08 PM
👏 Please join us to say a big thank you and well done to the S3 pupils People & Society Class from Peterhead Academy!
Today they put in a great effort at Craigewan Beach and removed all of this rubbish in under an hour!
#beachclean #marinelitter #peterheadacademy #craigewan #peterhead
Today they put in a great effort at Craigewan Beach and removed all of this rubbish in under an hour!
#beachclean #marinelitter #peterheadacademy #craigewan #peterhead
🎥 🌊 We had a great time yesterday evening with Paws on Plastic at the screening of Shaping Our Shores at Mackie Academy (shout out to Megan Douglas for facilitating)!
Thank you to all that attended, and for the discussions after the film! 🙌
#beachclean #marinelitter #shapingourshores
Thank you to all that attended, and for the discussions after the film! 🙌
#beachclean #marinelitter #shapingourshores
November 19, 2025 at 11:03 AM
🎥 🌊 We had a great time yesterday evening with Paws on Plastic at the screening of Shaping Our Shores at Mackie Academy (shout out to Megan Douglas for facilitating)!
Thank you to all that attended, and for the discussions after the film! 🙌
#beachclean #marinelitter #shapingourshores
Thank you to all that attended, and for the discussions after the film! 🙌
#beachclean #marinelitter #shapingourshores
👏 A HUGE THANK YOU to our volunteers who attended our collaborative clean-up with @rspbscotland.bsky.social last Friday at Craigewan, Peterhead! 🏴
A huge pile AGAIN including over 40 tyres!!!!
#beachcleanup #volunteering #changemakers #environment
A huge pile AGAIN including over 40 tyres!!!!
#beachcleanup #volunteering #changemakers #environment
November 16, 2025 at 10:24 AM
👏 A HUGE THANK YOU to our volunteers who attended our collaborative clean-up with @rspbscotland.bsky.social last Friday at Craigewan, Peterhead! 🏴
A huge pile AGAIN including over 40 tyres!!!!
#beachcleanup #volunteering #changemakers #environment
A huge pile AGAIN including over 40 tyres!!!!
#beachcleanup #volunteering #changemakers #environment
👏 Thank you to the geography pupils from Bucksburn Academy who did a clean-up and environmental survey of Donmouth Beach yesterday!
🫣 Lots of small items including 30 year old McDonalds packaging!!!!
⚠️ And sadly 4 syringes and needles!
#beachcleanup #environmentalawareness #volunteering
🫣 Lots of small items including 30 year old McDonalds packaging!!!!
⚠️ And sadly 4 syringes and needles!
#beachcleanup #environmentalawareness #volunteering
November 7, 2025 at 11:47 AM
👏 Thank you to the geography pupils from Bucksburn Academy who did a clean-up and environmental survey of Donmouth Beach yesterday!
🫣 Lots of small items including 30 year old McDonalds packaging!!!!
⚠️ And sadly 4 syringes and needles!
#beachcleanup #environmentalawareness #volunteering
🫣 Lots of small items including 30 year old McDonalds packaging!!!!
⚠️ And sadly 4 syringes and needles!
#beachcleanup #environmentalawareness #volunteering
🤩 Shout out to Aberdeen Laundry Services for their beach cleaning efforts along the Donmouth in Aberdeen recently. Well done to all involved!! 👏 #beachcleanup #makingadifference #volunteering
November 4, 2025 at 11:49 AM
🤩 Shout out to Aberdeen Laundry Services for their beach cleaning efforts along the Donmouth in Aberdeen recently. Well done to all involved!! 👏 #beachcleanup #makingadifference #volunteering
🙌 Thank you to all of the volunteers from Weatherford who joined Lauren last week to clean up the south side of the Don Mouth Estuary!
#beachcleanup #aberdeen #donmouth #weatherford #eastgrampiancoastalpartnership #turningtheplastictide
#beachcleanup #aberdeen #donmouth #weatherford #eastgrampiancoastalpartnership #turningtheplastictide
October 13, 2025 at 11:13 AM
🙌 Thank you to all of the volunteers from Weatherford who joined Lauren last week to clean up the south side of the Don Mouth Estuary!
#beachcleanup #aberdeen #donmouth #weatherford #eastgrampiancoastalpartnership #turningtheplastictide
#beachcleanup #aberdeen #donmouth #weatherford #eastgrampiancoastalpartnership #turningtheplastictide
👍 Yesterday we were joined by another group of students taking part in the Duke of Edinburgh awards!
👏 Tackling the abundance of microplastics and polystyrene (one student counted 300 pieces in just a small area)!
#eastgrampiancoastalpartnership #turningtheplastictide #volunteering
👏 Tackling the abundance of microplastics and polystyrene (one student counted 300 pieces in just a small area)!
#eastgrampiancoastalpartnership #turningtheplastictide #volunteering
October 9, 2025 at 4:46 PM
👍 Yesterday we were joined by another group of students taking part in the Duke of Edinburgh awards!
👏 Tackling the abundance of microplastics and polystyrene (one student counted 300 pieces in just a small area)!
#eastgrampiancoastalpartnership #turningtheplastictide #volunteering
👏 Tackling the abundance of microplastics and polystyrene (one student counted 300 pieces in just a small area)!
#eastgrampiancoastalpartnership #turningtheplastictide #volunteering
👍 Well done to this group of students working towards their Duke of Edinburgh awards, they joined us yesterday to help clean up the North Donmouth area.
#eastgrampiancoastalpartnership #turningtheplastictide #volunteering #dukeofedinburgh
#eastgrampiancoastalpartnership #turningtheplastictide #volunteering #dukeofedinburgh
October 7, 2025 at 2:50 PM
👍 Well done to this group of students working towards their Duke of Edinburgh awards, they joined us yesterday to help clean up the North Donmouth area.
#eastgrampiancoastalpartnership #turningtheplastictide #volunteering #dukeofedinburgh
#eastgrampiancoastalpartnership #turningtheplastictide #volunteering #dukeofedinburgh
🙌 Our final clean-up for Climate Week North East this afternoon!
We met at Whinnyfold and headed along the coastal path to access the more isolated Broadhaven Bay.
#beachcleanup #climateweeknortheast #eastgrampiancoastalpartnership #turningtheplastictide
We met at Whinnyfold and headed along the coastal path to access the more isolated Broadhaven Bay.
#beachcleanup #climateweeknortheast #eastgrampiancoastalpartnership #turningtheplastictide
October 2, 2025 at 8:16 PM
🙌 Our final clean-up for Climate Week North East this afternoon!
We met at Whinnyfold and headed along the coastal path to access the more isolated Broadhaven Bay.
#beachcleanup #climateweeknortheast #eastgrampiancoastalpartnership #turningtheplastictide
We met at Whinnyfold and headed along the coastal path to access the more isolated Broadhaven Bay.
#beachcleanup #climateweeknortheast #eastgrampiancoastalpartnership #turningtheplastictide
💪 Good Grief!!!! Today we shifted this incredible amount of litter off Craigewan Beach, Peterhead!
It took 4 of us 2 hours to gather all of this from the beach and dunes, carry it across the bridge ready for the council to uplift & weigh tomorrow!
#beachcleanup #egcp #turningtheplastictide
It took 4 of us 2 hours to gather all of this from the beach and dunes, carry it across the bridge ready for the council to uplift & weigh tomorrow!
#beachcleanup #egcp #turningtheplastictide
October 1, 2025 at 4:51 PM
💪 Good Grief!!!! Today we shifted this incredible amount of litter off Craigewan Beach, Peterhead!
It took 4 of us 2 hours to gather all of this from the beach and dunes, carry it across the bridge ready for the council to uplift & weigh tomorrow!
#beachcleanup #egcp #turningtheplastictide
It took 4 of us 2 hours to gather all of this from the beach and dunes, carry it across the bridge ready for the council to uplift & weigh tomorrow!
#beachcleanup #egcp #turningtheplastictide
🤩 Wow what a start to our Climate Week North East beach cleans!
This lunchtime we tackled Fraserburgh, with a small but committed team of volunteers that worked incredibly hard to remove this huge volume of rubbish!
#beachcleanup #eastgrampiancoastalpartnership #turningtheplastictide
This lunchtime we tackled Fraserburgh, with a small but committed team of volunteers that worked incredibly hard to remove this huge volume of rubbish!
#beachcleanup #eastgrampiancoastalpartnership #turningtheplastictide
September 30, 2025 at 3:07 PM
🤩 Wow what a start to our Climate Week North East beach cleans!
This lunchtime we tackled Fraserburgh, with a small but committed team of volunteers that worked incredibly hard to remove this huge volume of rubbish!
#beachcleanup #eastgrampiancoastalpartnership #turningtheplastictide
This lunchtime we tackled Fraserburgh, with a small but committed team of volunteers that worked incredibly hard to remove this huge volume of rubbish!
#beachcleanup #eastgrampiancoastalpartnership #turningtheplastictide
🌞 A beautiful morning for a clean-up along Aberdeen Beach!
👏 Thank you so much to our volunteers from Boskalis Subsea Services for helping to remove a range of litter from microplastics, to cigarette butts and even a couple of barriers!
#beachcleanup #litter #turningtheplastictide
👏 Thank you so much to our volunteers from Boskalis Subsea Services for helping to remove a range of litter from microplastics, to cigarette butts and even a couple of barriers!
#beachcleanup #litter #turningtheplastictide
September 25, 2025 at 12:17 PM
🌞 A beautiful morning for a clean-up along Aberdeen Beach!
👏 Thank you so much to our volunteers from Boskalis Subsea Services for helping to remove a range of litter from microplastics, to cigarette butts and even a couple of barriers!
#beachcleanup #litter #turningtheplastictide
👏 Thank you so much to our volunteers from Boskalis Subsea Services for helping to remove a range of litter from microplastics, to cigarette butts and even a couple of barriers!
#beachcleanup #litter #turningtheplastictide
👏 Thank you to all of our volunteers who came to our clean at Tarlair yesterday with Macduff Marine Aquarium!
#beachcleanup #GreatBritishBeachClean #community #collaboration #eastgrampiancoastalpartnership #turningtheplastictide
#beachcleanup #GreatBritishBeachClean #community #collaboration #eastgrampiancoastalpartnership #turningtheplastictide
September 24, 2025 at 9:16 AM
👏 Thank you to all of our volunteers who came to our clean at Tarlair yesterday with Macduff Marine Aquarium!
#beachcleanup #GreatBritishBeachClean #community #collaboration #eastgrampiancoastalpartnership #turningtheplastictide
#beachcleanup #GreatBritishBeachClean #community #collaboration #eastgrampiancoastalpartnership #turningtheplastictide
🎉 WOW! We had an incredible evening last night attending the Inspiring Aberdeenshire awards by Aberdeenshire Council ! We are honoured and very pleased to announce that we won the “Beautiful Aberdeenshire Environmental Award” presented to us by Cllr Sarah Dickinson !
September 18, 2025 at 9:50 AM
🎉 WOW! We had an incredible evening last night attending the Inspiring Aberdeenshire awards by Aberdeenshire Council ! We are honoured and very pleased to announce that we won the “Beautiful Aberdeenshire Environmental Award” presented to us by Cllr Sarah Dickinson !
🐟 We have had a fantastic day at #SeaFest Peterhead !
A huge thank you to everyone who stopped by for a chat & to those who purchased Behaviour Change bracelets, maps & postcards in support of our beach cleaning project 🙌
⭐️ Well done to the organisers of SeaFest for another fantastic event!
A huge thank you to everyone who stopped by for a chat & to those who purchased Behaviour Change bracelets, maps & postcards in support of our beach cleaning project 🙌
⭐️ Well done to the organisers of SeaFest for another fantastic event!
September 13, 2025 at 6:13 PM
🐟 We have had a fantastic day at #SeaFest Peterhead !
A huge thank you to everyone who stopped by for a chat & to those who purchased Behaviour Change bracelets, maps & postcards in support of our beach cleaning project 🙌
⭐️ Well done to the organisers of SeaFest for another fantastic event!
A huge thank you to everyone who stopped by for a chat & to those who purchased Behaviour Change bracelets, maps & postcards in support of our beach cleaning project 🙌
⭐️ Well done to the organisers of SeaFest for another fantastic event!
📣 🐟 We will be at SeaFest Peterhead tomorrow! Come and say hello and if possible support our non-profit by purchasing one (or more!) of our super popular bracelets made from fishing nets recovered during scottish beach cleans, handmade by the talented Behaviour Change team!
September 12, 2025 at 4:54 PM
📣 🐟 We will be at SeaFest Peterhead tomorrow! Come and say hello and if possible support our non-profit by purchasing one (or more!) of our super popular bracelets made from fishing nets recovered during scottish beach cleans, handmade by the talented Behaviour Change team!
👍 Earlier today Lauren dropped off some beach cleaning kit to the Cadet Training Centre in Boddam for use by the sea cadets over the next couple of weeks.
#beachcleanup #volunteering #seacadets #eastgrampiancoastalpartnership #turningtheplastictide
#beachcleanup #volunteering #seacadets #eastgrampiancoastalpartnership #turningtheplastictide
September 12, 2025 at 4:14 PM
👍 Earlier today Lauren dropped off some beach cleaning kit to the Cadet Training Centre in Boddam for use by the sea cadets over the next couple of weeks.
#beachcleanup #volunteering #seacadets #eastgrampiancoastalpartnership #turningtheplastictide
#beachcleanup #volunteering #seacadets #eastgrampiancoastalpartnership #turningtheplastictide
👍 Well done to the St Machar Academy’s Eco Master-Class students!
🚮 They joined us yesterday at Aberdeen Beach for a clean-up, we found lots of small bits of litter and a large chunk of metal too!
#beachcleanup #marinelitter #plasticpollution #eastgrampiancoastalpartnership #turningtheplastictide
🚮 They joined us yesterday at Aberdeen Beach for a clean-up, we found lots of small bits of litter and a large chunk of metal too!
#beachcleanup #marinelitter #plasticpollution #eastgrampiancoastalpartnership #turningtheplastictide
September 11, 2025 at 7:26 PM
👍 Well done to the St Machar Academy’s Eco Master-Class students!
🚮 They joined us yesterday at Aberdeen Beach for a clean-up, we found lots of small bits of litter and a large chunk of metal too!
#beachcleanup #marinelitter #plasticpollution #eastgrampiancoastalpartnership #turningtheplastictide
🚮 They joined us yesterday at Aberdeen Beach for a clean-up, we found lots of small bits of litter and a large chunk of metal too!
#beachcleanup #marinelitter #plasticpollution #eastgrampiancoastalpartnership #turningtheplastictide
🤩 A phenomenal effort today at Rattray Head by this small but mighty team from Balfour Beatty!
🚜 We had brilliant support from Aberdeenshire Council (shout out to Derek for his tireless work with the tractor!)
#beachclean #marinelitter #eastgrampiancoastalpartnership #turningtheplastictide
🚜 We had brilliant support from Aberdeenshire Council (shout out to Derek for his tireless work with the tractor!)
#beachclean #marinelitter #eastgrampiancoastalpartnership #turningtheplastictide
September 9, 2025 at 4:35 PM
🤩 A phenomenal effort today at Rattray Head by this small but mighty team from Balfour Beatty!
🚜 We had brilliant support from Aberdeenshire Council (shout out to Derek for his tireless work with the tractor!)
#beachclean #marinelitter #eastgrampiancoastalpartnership #turningtheplastictide
🚜 We had brilliant support from Aberdeenshire Council (shout out to Derek for his tireless work with the tractor!)
#beachclean #marinelitter #eastgrampiancoastalpartnership #turningtheplastictide
⭐️ An excellent start to the week!
TTPT Project Manager Lauren was at St Machar Academy delivering a talk as part of the school’s “Eco Master-Class” project!
#plasticpollution #marinelitter #education #outreach #eastgrampiancoastalpartnership #turningtheplastictide #stmacharacademy
TTPT Project Manager Lauren was at St Machar Academy delivering a talk as part of the school’s “Eco Master-Class” project!
#plasticpollution #marinelitter #education #outreach #eastgrampiancoastalpartnership #turningtheplastictide #stmacharacademy
September 8, 2025 at 10:45 AM
⭐️ An excellent start to the week!
TTPT Project Manager Lauren was at St Machar Academy delivering a talk as part of the school’s “Eco Master-Class” project!
#plasticpollution #marinelitter #education #outreach #eastgrampiancoastalpartnership #turningtheplastictide #stmacharacademy
TTPT Project Manager Lauren was at St Machar Academy delivering a talk as part of the school’s “Eco Master-Class” project!
#plasticpollution #marinelitter #education #outreach #eastgrampiancoastalpartnership #turningtheplastictide #stmacharacademy
🙌 A productive clean-up this morning with one of the directors of the River Ythan Trust !
We were taking a closer look either side of the bridge over the Ythan, part of the Forvie National Nature Reserve.
#plasticpollution #cleanup #riverythantrust #ythan
We were taking a closer look either side of the bridge over the Ythan, part of the Forvie National Nature Reserve.
#plasticpollution #cleanup #riverythantrust #ythan
September 6, 2025 at 7:35 PM
🙌 A productive clean-up this morning with one of the directors of the River Ythan Trust !
We were taking a closer look either side of the bridge over the Ythan, part of the Forvie National Nature Reserve.
#plasticpollution #cleanup #riverythantrust #ythan
We were taking a closer look either side of the bridge over the Ythan, part of the Forvie National Nature Reserve.
#plasticpollution #cleanup #riverythantrust #ythan
1/3 Volunteers from SSEN Transmission Eastern Green Link 2 project together with their contractors BAM and David Smith Contractors put in an incredible effort at Sandford Bay on the 27th August.
#beachclean #beachlitter #marinelitter #plasticpollution #sandfordbay
#beachclean #beachlitter #marinelitter #plasticpollution #sandfordbay
September 1, 2025 at 2:33 PM
1/3 Volunteers from SSEN Transmission Eastern Green Link 2 project together with their contractors BAM and David Smith Contractors put in an incredible effort at Sandford Bay on the 27th August.
#beachclean #beachlitter #marinelitter #plasticpollution #sandfordbay
#beachclean #beachlitter #marinelitter #plasticpollution #sandfordbay