Beco Pets has taken part in The Great British Beach Clean 2018. The London based team travelled to the coastline of Pett Level, neatly positioned between Hastings and Rye.

While foraging on the beach, the litter pickers found items that had drifted from as far as the Amazon Rainforest, Barbados and America.

Toby Freeman, Beco's marketing manager, said: “It’s scary visiting a local beach that appears spotless at first glance, then looking closer we find plastic that has travelled across oceans without even partly braking down. Plastic in our ocean is a truly global issue that we all need to work together to rectify."

Waste plastic in our oceans has a terrifyingly long list of implications. To name a few, it is unsightly, unhygienic, often consumed by wildlife and can trap and harm marine animals.

In the past 5 years, over 300 new species arrived on UK shores carried by floating plastic where biodegradable materials would have broken down. It is only a matter of time before a foreign species arrives that has the potential to unbalance local ecosystems and threaten the species within them.

Beco Pets has created a range of soft toys for dogs made from 100% recycled plastic. Every toy is strong, tough and recycles 15 plastic bottles that would otherwise be entering our oceans.

Their Beco Bags range has expanded to include home compostable poop bags. They are big, strong and made from natural plant fibres that break down in under 60 days. There are over 8.5 million dogs in the UK alone, depositing 17 million poops a day. That is at least 17 million plastic bags going to landfill or our oceans, unless we buy responsibly.

For more information about Beco Pets visit www.becopets.com