Tackling pollution

Everybody hates Litter

This is not a true statement. Some people have become extremely wealthy thanks to litter; some people continue to invest in it. Most people are unaware that for investors, waste is what's known as a low-risk, high-profit industry. The only people who hate litter are unpaid volunteers and campaigners dealing with the issue on streets and streams, this past month has seen PCH educate our community away from countless wastefull habits, and educating those in our community that care on the massive scale of the problem globally,

The big Forth cleanup event weekend took place from August 28th to 30th, 2026. The hub was marked on the map as we continually monitor and tackle pollution and waste, not only at the hub but also on our local streets; the town of Polmont has two boundary burns: Polmont Burn on the west and Gilston on the east of town. These burns spill water and waste into rivers that feed into the Forth estuary. the british geological survey are doing a diagrame of our flow routes after their fun day at polmontfest researching our local waterways,

Keep Scotland Beautiful were at Polmontfest; they hosted an interactive and entertaining water life cycle demonstration. We nearly managed a visit from Flo, the emergency flood bus in Scotland; Miranda from Falkirk District Council’s resilience team tried to organise this. She organised the council's recycling and waste team to come along. As part of KSB`s upstream battle campaign

We are planning our sustainable urban drainage systems at the hub and factoring in the effects of SEPA`s flooding danger zones map into our plans. Our goal is to alleviate the strain on local storm drains by incorporating water capture initiatives. PolmontFest was an opportunity for public engagement regarding these plans.

With great Thanks to Balanced Horizon for financing our free screening on Sunday, August 30th, of - The North Drift a film that highlights where plastic waste from our estuary ends up. Our chairman first saw this film called at its UK launch during the LandXSea Film Festival, where he is also a trustee and a board member. This years filmfesst features a pollution problem film called - All Rivers Spill Their Stories to the Sea, a film about the River Tees mass extinction event,

Polmont residents have a Landfill Site on their doorstep, and light and noise pollution from the flaring, where Ineos is still the biggest producer of plastic in Scotland. The Scottish Government has banned the use of many single-use plastic items, and tried to introduce a return scheme similar to Europe, yet litter is still one of the biggest complaints in our communities, where rubbish litters our streets and rivers.

The Forth Estuary at Kiniel Nature Reserve Bo’ness, has millions of nurdles (raw plastic pellets), produced at Grangemouth; this plastic waste along the tideline there is valley-wide. and feeds into the North Sea. Friends of the Earth Falkirk have been monitoring these, for a very long time. Every year they participate in the Great Global Nurdle Hunt, an annual citizen science event, which sees volunteers around the world head out and undertake nurdle hunts. Every nurdle hunt helps to collect important evidence of nurdle pollution, raise awareness of this global issue and helps call for change! This year's event tied in with the big Forth clean-up, where a beach clean was also done,