It took three days to carry out the clean-up and some of the plastic is to be turned into plant pots.
A beach on Skye has been cleared of large amounts of plastic pollution, including fragments of rope and fishing net.
Scottish Coastal Clean Up said it took three days to collect as much waste as possible from the site near Heaste, before removing it by boat.Skye Beach Cleans helped to co-ordinate the effort with support from a range of organisations including Highland Council, Ocean Recovery Project and fish farming company Mowi Scotland.
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