Futures Forum: "Bid to make Sidmouth a plastic-free coastline town is gathering pace"
Bid to make Sidmouth a plastic free town picks up steam | Latest Sidmouth and Ottery News - Sidmouth Herald
Here is their latest newsletter, together with the posters:
Dear all
Just an update from me which includes a Press Release about Plastics Week:
SIDMOUTH PLASTICS WEEK
There will be a focus on plastic pollution during the second week of May, when the Futures Forum of the Vision Group and the Science Festival will be co-hosting events to look at how we can encourage us all to look at this with fresh eyes.
On Tuesday 8th May, Sohvi Nuojua from Plymouth University will be giving a talk at the Cellar Bar of Kennaway House, on the latest research into how plastic pollution happens. In particular, she’ll be talking about “The human dimension: How social and behavioural research can help address marine litter.”As the University research web pages suggests, “Tapping into the public’s passion for the ocean environment could be the key to reducing the threats posed to it by plastic pollution. Millions of tons of plastic particles accumulate in our seas each year as a result of human behaviour, and once there they have a potentially detrimental effect on marine life.But reversing this trend, and finding ways to maintain both the health of our oceans and the human benefits associated with it, is a complicated task.”
On Friday 11th May, the popular performance poet Matt Harvey will be making another appearance in Sidmouth.To quote his publisher, “whimsical, ecological, political and just plain funny, Matt is a frequent live performer (a hilariously entertaining one, at that) throughout his native U.K., and is involved with the Transition Town movement.” And for his gig in the Cellar Bar of Kennaway House, he will be doing his usual run through things ‘green’, whilst taking a tour through some plastic-themed pieces. Tickets are only £5 and will be available on the door – or at Paragon Books and Winstone’s bookshop on the High Street.And parallel to Plastics Week, the Sidmouth Plastic Warriors will be talking at the monthly Chamber of Commerce breakfast on the morning of Wednesday 9th May, to see how businesses can be helped to go ‘plastic free’.
Plus, the Warriors will be working hard from 10am on Saturday 12th May, beach cleaning and then putting together an art installation from the plastic rubbish gathered – to make a visual point about the pollution of our seas.
This of course is part of the annual Sea Fest on the Ham, whose special focus on reducing single use plastics this year will kick off with the beach clean.
This will be the town’s first festival where all the food retailers and community organisations will use only bio-degradeable or recyclable materials, which will all go to show that we can do something to really make an impact on plastic pollution.
End of press release
Attached is the poster for the beach clean. I would be most grateful if you could circulate it, put it up on noticeboards wherever possible, and we hope to see lots of you there.
Thank you for your ongoing support
Denise
Sidmouth Plastic Warriors – Doing everything in our power to get Sidmouth single-use-plastic-free
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