Surrfers Against Sewage Plastic Free Communities

Published: 25 November 2024

Surfers Against Sewage, on their website, say: The Plastic Free Communities network has been created to tackle plastic pollution at source – from beaches and green spaces right back to the brands and businesses that create it.

Wherever you live, whether you’re by the shore or inland, urban or rural, high tide or high-rise, we’re uniting in the fight against avoidable plastic.

It’s not about removing all plastic from our lives. It’s about kicking our addiction to throwaway plastic, and changing the system that produces it.

Why?

Plastic is a growth industry, with one in every ten barrels of oil now used to create new plastic.

But together, we can make sure we don’t choke our coast, streets, parks and playgrounds with it. Because if it’s on our streets today, it’s in our rivers tomorrow, and our beaches and oceans forever.

We can make sure each of us understands that we can change this, whoever we are and wherever we live.

But we can only do it together.

Come along at 3.30pm on November the 27th, where representatives of the Town Council and business communities will be hearing from Surfers Against Sewage about how the communities of Appledore, Northam and Westward Ho! can take part in the Plastic Free Communities initiative.