The Scottish Islands Federation ( SIF ) is a network of island communities working to have a stronger voice on common challenges, share ideas and innovation to accelerate change. 
One of our core topics is Marine Litter and as part of this work we are undertaking a mapping exercise to determine the nature and scope of the community action taking place across the Scottish islands.
More details of our work can be found here SIF Marine Litter project
Please do take a few minutes to fill in the survey and we welcome any thoughts and feedback you wish to provide.

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* 1. What is the name of your organisation or group?

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* 2. Which Scottish island (s) do you beach clean on?

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* 3. Do you cover a specific geographical area, single beach etc? If so please name it below with a OS grid reference/What3words

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* 4. Is your organisation

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* 5. Please provide an indication of the size of your organisation, e.g. number of  staff, volunteers, members etc

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* 6. How long have you been undertaking beach cleaning activities

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* 7. How many beach cleans do you do each year?

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* 8. Do you employ anyone to specifically organise or undertake the beach cleaning activities? Such as a Beach Ranger.  
If No, please skip to Question 12.

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* 9. Is the position funded through grants and/or donations?

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* 10. How long is the funding for?

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* 11. Who funds this type of activity?

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* 12. Have you / do you work with other groups to organise beach cleans, such as the Marine Conservation society? Please name them below.

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* 13. Do you, as part of your beach cleaning activity collect any information/data on the types and nature of the litter ?

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* 14. Do you use a standardised method such as

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* 15. Would you be happy to share your results with us?

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* 16. We are working on an island specific recording method. Would you be willing to undertake some data collection in the future? 

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* 17. Plastic litter found on the Scottish islands is a massive problem, can you help us to identify the types of litter you find?  Please categorise the types of litter found by volume ( 1 = most common, 4 = least common ).

 
Domestic plastic waste, such as food trays, bottles, wet wipes etc
Nurdles (small plastic pellets used to make more plastic items)
Fishing and Aquaculture industry plastic waste, such as nets, rope, tubing, buoys etc
Small broken down fragments of plastic

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* 18. What challenges do you face when organising beach cleans in your area. Below are a few suggestions. Please add any others into the text box.

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* 19. Do you know of any businesses or individuals who make use of the litter washed up on your coastline line?  Are you able to share any public details with us? E.g. website, FB page etc

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* 20. Do you or your community have any plans to develop any new enterprises making use of the litter or create any new employment opportunities based on litter collection/recycling.

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* 21. If you would like to be kept informed of the work the Scottish Islands Federation is doing to tackle the problem of Marine Litter or be more involved in our work in the future please do leave your details below. 

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* 22. Please add here anymore information you wish to share on the topic of Marine litter and beach cleaning activity.