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Mystery over bible verses in plastic bottles in UK river on ‘industrial scale’

An environmental group, Sea2It, has revealed that Bible verses in plastic bottles are being dumped into the River Bann in Coleraine on a large scale.

The Northern Ireland-based group, devoted to defending marine life, has been eradicating these bottles for years. In a plea on social media, a spokesperson for Sea2It requested: “Would any of the Coleraine churches know who is dumping bible messages in plastic bottles into the river Bann at Coleraine on this industrial scale? Whatever your beliefs or reason you have to spread the word of God this act is littering our beautiful river.”

The attraction went on: “Sea2it volunteers have been remove [sic] these bottles for years now and collected a shocking 670 of these bottles with messages in them in 2023. Unfortunately again a fresh 2024 batch seems to have been released into the River over the new year.”

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“They are always downstream of the Old Town Bridge so the person(s) must be dumping them into the river around Dunnes Stores, the footbridge or Waterside area. Please can you stop doing this as its pollute [sic] our River and tying up 100’s of hours of our volunteer time removing them- when we could be tackling other immediate issues which are impacting on the River.”



The bottles have reportedly taken hundreds of hours to clean up
The bottles have reportedly taken a whole lot of hours to scrub up

The group has reached out to native church teams for a river clean-up, saying: “If any local church group wishes to help with a clean up of our local River and address this blight please contact us [email protected]

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