New project will tackle waste in the River Nene

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00:00I want you to tell us a little bit about the Seaboom project and how you guys at Recruit

00:29got involved.

00:30Yeah, we're always looking at ways of trying to improve our natural environment and one

00:37of our projects is around looking at litter and looking at the composition of it to understand

00:43how we can make interventions to stop it being there in the first place.

00:47So one of the biggest problems around here is the litter you can see visually, so land-based

00:52litter.

00:53What the Seabin does is take litter from the top of the surface of the water as it's going

00:57through before it sinks and captures it in a bin.

01:02So what we're able to do from that is obviously recover this litter which otherwise would

01:06have ended up in the river, but also we're going to take it away and analyse it to see

01:10what's in it.

01:12Once we do that, we can start to look at interventions to stop litter being there in the first place.

01:16Oh yeah, great, and is there a particular issue in this stretch of river with litter

01:21that's been found?

01:23I think there's issues in all areas of the river at different times.

01:28Anywhere near a city centre typically gets a lot of litter into it, but here was actually

01:33a very good spot for us because it's got a jetty we can attach the Seabin to.

01:38And how did the Seabin project come about?

01:40How did you get hold of the Seabin?

01:41It was actually in use in Ireland and we were offered it for free, so we managed to get

01:47some transportation in place and some funding from Viridor, Peterborough City Environmental

01:54Trust as well, and we're able to put it in place in Peterborough.

01:57So we're very excited to have it here.