Although we’ve been quiet on this blog in the last few months, we’ve been busy in the background working with Dumfries and Galloway College and New College Lanarkshire, setting up a new project, wandering about and wondering about waste. More about the projects with the Colleges soon. We’ve also expanded our range of free merch Read More…
Category: marine litter
The Stràilleach Golamas
Has anyone here met the Stràilleach Golamas? He lives on the foreshore, in the space between where the water reaches when the tide comes in, and where the water reaches when the tide goes out. And how long do you think he’s lived there? For as long as the tide has come in and gone Read More…
Waste is a monster
Thanks to some additional funding from the University of Glasgow’s Knowledge Exchange Fund, George and I are currently working with the GRAB Trust on a project related to their Beaches and Marine Litter Project. The project uses the well-known “Arrochar litter sink” as a focus and impetus for trying to encourage novel thinking and action Read More…
Washed Up and Blue
The funding Waste Stories received from the Leverhulme Trust came to an end at the end of 2024. The Trust’s generous support has allowed us to create ideas, methods and partnerships that we will continue to develop into the future. 2025 started with a new venture in collaboration with our excellent colleagues at the Solway Read More…
Two new Waste Stories
We’re delighted to be able to make two new Waste Stories available to read and download. Arrochar and the Waste of the World is a true story about the Scottish village of Arrochar, located at the top of Loch Long. Arrochar suffers from constant deposition of litter/waste on the foreshore, washed up the loch from Read More…
Beside the seaside
We recently visited the beautiful Moray Coast, staying in the seaside town of Lossiemouth. We had read that the series of storms we’ve had this winter, together with high tidal surges, have been eroding the massive dunes that protect the town. George had also read that the dunes themselves were partly constructed out of old Read More…
Mermaids’ Tears
George and I have been going to a lot of coastal areas recently, for Waste Stories and for the Waste Stories daughter project, Future Archaeologies of Marine Litter. The litter that washes up on our shores is incredibly varied, depending on the local currents, windes, topography and geography. In some places, such as Mullock Bay Read More…
Nurdelology: a future archaeology of the plastics age
Earlier this year, we started working with the fantastic folk at the Solway Firth Partnership (SFP). This is part of a strand of Waste Stories dedicated to waste in our seas and along our coasts; we’ll add a new section to this site explaining more about this work soon. In March, I went to Port Read More…
