Jellicoe Express, Badgers and the 'Poly Roger'

Scotland Outdoors

BBC

Nature, Society & Culture, Science

4.7 • 709 Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2019

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Mark hears about the Jellicoe Express and Euan is on a recycled plastic boat.

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0:23.9	Hello and thank you very much for downloading the Scotland Outdoors podcast.
0:27.4	I'm Mark Stephen. He's you and McElwreath.
0:28.9	Yeah, we've been all over the country as usual and I came across a rather strange boat this week,
0:35.1	made out of recycled material. See, I've heard of something like this, but it wasn't in Scotland.
0:42.3	I'm trying to remember what it was.
0:44.3	It was somewhere off the coast of Africa and they'd made it out of flip-flops.
0:47.3	Wow.
0:48.3	It was really quite impressive, because you could see the flip-flops on the hull.
0:51.3	Right.
0:52.3	Well, this is slightly more sophisticated than that. It's 99% recycled
0:56.2	material and it was part of a campaign by Keep Scotland Beautiful in Scottish canals. They've got
1:02.0	this boat and they're taking folk out on trips to go and scoop up rubbish from the canal.
1:06.9	And I hopped aboard in Glasgow and spoke to Heather McLaughlin from Keeps
1:11.2	Scotland Beautiful. We're in Mary Hill in Glasgow as part of Keep Scotland Beautiful's
1:15.5	source to sea week during the spring clean. We explain what that's all about. What's happening?
1:19.3	80% of marine litter starts its life on land. So what we're trying to encourage people to do is
1:24.2	prevent it getting to the seas by picking it up before it gets there.
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