We hear lots in the news about plastic pollution and ocean plastic. However, have you ever wondered how this plastic is actually getting into the water here in the UK? Well, the main source of ocean plastic pollution is land-based,…
We have teamed up with our friends at Bristol Aquarium in our joint mission to discourage single-use plastics and encourage reusable alternatives! Here at Life’s a Beach, our top priority is to help the environment and one of the ways…
We were contacted by Forest Green Rovers Community, the charitable arm of Forest Green Rovers football club, to deliver an afternoon of summer school workshops. FGR Community works with schools, community organisations, and sports clubs in Gloucestershire and the surrounding…
We returned to Gillingstool Primary, who joined our Waste Less initiative this month, to check in and hold a local litter pick. Earlier this month we visited the school to speak to their years five and six classes, who were…
We traveled to the nearby town of Thornbury to visit Gillingstool School. Gillingstool is the latest primary school to join our plastic-free initiative. Working with the year 5 and 6 classes, we spent the day educating and raising awareness about…
We attended our first ever show, bringing our refill stations to Cheltenham Food and Drink Festival. This food and drink festival, full of interesting stalls, live music, and entertainment, has been running since 2008. We were delighted to join them…
Adding another school to our ‘Waste Less Initiative’ list, on the 26th of June we visited Rowan Field Primary School, Cheltenham. Having one of our core missions to focus on educating the next generation we were so happy to receive…
Nurdles are small microplastic pellets pre-produced for manufacturing most plastic items, from clothes, cars, to food wrappers. Takes roughly 600 nurdles to be melted down to make one plastic water bottle and countless billions being made every year for plastic…
We met Nicky from Ocean Plan during our beach clean in Devon 2021. We cleaned up Westward-Ho! beach with 200 students from the University of Bristol. Ocean Plan caught our attention with a brilliant reel on instagram showing a clean…
In order to clean Westward Ho! beach in North Devon on June 12th, Life’s a Beach collaborated once again with the 1st Torrington Girl Guiding group and the ProCook Bideford store. 63 volunteers came to this lovely stretch of beach…
We are dedicated to reducing single-use plastic wherever possible. So, in order to better fulfil this mission we have launched a new product range with our charity partner ProCook. Not only have we improved our water bottle designs, both the…
