Plastic waste and its impact on the marine environment continue to be a key focus area. As a result, we have maintained our partnership with Responsible Plastics Management (RPM) to educate, reduce and ultimately eliminate single use plastics from our operations.
In associated action, our three-year partnership with Keep Northern Ireland’s Beautiful continues to have an impact both environmentally and, on the communities involved in the activities. In 2023, we joined NI’s largest community and civic pride initiative, Live Here Love Here, in promoting its largest ever coastal cleanup.
The event marked the start of the annual Healthy Oceans, Healthy Minds campaign, which promotes the health and wellbeing benefits of a clean marine and coastal environment.
During the Healthy Oceans, Healthy Minds programme, 75 events took place involving almost 1,100 people. 122 bags of litter were collected and prevented from reaching waterways, and the increased knowledge and education passed on at each event highlighted the importance of protecting blue spaces
