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Via @theorispresent 📢Tag Ur It! Have you ever wondered which brands dominate the waste stream? We can help you with that! 🥇Swipe through to see the results from this summer’s tag audits. 👋 How would YOU like these brands to take accountability? Let us know in the comments! Tag audits take place during our cleanups which we conduct regularly as a team and with community partners like Won Bee Ga Ba @preciousplastic_accra Cleanups target specific sections of beach during low-tide when we are able to safely dig out textile tentacles, which we do manually – it often takes about 10 people over an hour to remove the average tentacle because it is so buried and entangled with other tentacles. Once a tentacle is removed, and even while we are working on removing it, we comb through for any visible/accessible tags. We also record any tags of loose items on the section of the beach that are not yet entangled in tentacles.  There are more items in the tentacles than the tags that we can record because by the time garments wrap up in tentacles they have been tossed around through the gutter system, the lagoon and the sea. Tags are often missing, illegible or simply inaccessible within the tentacles.  Once removed from the beach we load the waste onto a truck from the Accra Metropolitan Assembly to haul to a sanctioned dumpsite about 50km from the coast. In parallel we are working on how we can decompose these beach textiles, but that is still very much a work in progress. We will begin publishing tag audit results on a monthly basis with different calls to action, so please stay tuned! We monitor, sample and clean the beach on a regular basis, usually weekly. Want to help? Sign up to volunteer at the link in bio. #StopWasteColonialism