The Marine Conservation Society (MCS) is the voice for everyone who loves the sea.They work to secure a future for our living seas, and to save our threatened marine wildlife before it is lost forever. Almost nowhere in UK seas is marine wildlife safe from harm.

The 2016 Great British Beach Clean saw 6,000 volunteers clean 364 beaches around the UK, recording the litter they found. The results have revealed the number of plastic bags found have almost halved in a year. They think that’s down to the charge at the checkout, which is now in place across the whole UK.

But there was an astonishing rise in the amount of balloon related litter, up over 50% on 2015. There were more drinks containers, bottle caps and lids, too – up more than 4% on the previous year. Obviously we still have work to do.

To compliment their beach clean campaign, the Marine Conservation Society ordered striking blue bags in two different sizes with the simple yet effective message “Love The Sea, Use Me”, rather clever we think..