In this campaign, we’ll be focusing on reducing the prevalence of plastics in our city. With an agenda at both ends of the plastic use cycle – seeking a reduction in production/usage all the way through to proper recycling.
Taking the beach as a main locus we’ll be getting involved in a variety of activities focusing on:
- Removing all single use plastics from the establishments along the Brighton and Hove seafront
- Reversing the shameful lack of recycling facilities along the seafront
- Working to improve recycling in the city generally
- Working with the council to disallow single use plastics from all events across the city, such as Pride or the Marathon
- Working with people to promote plastic free lifestyles
As part of our plastic campaigns activities we’ll be getting together to clean our beaches, working to get the rubbish out of the cycle as a last stitch attempt to avoid the disaster that is the plastic pollution in our city and on our beaches.
This is exactly what we did on Sunday the 1st of July 2018. Working alongside GRAB, a group of local volunteers who focus on monthly beach cleans covering the Deans, a group of us went down to Saltdean Beach and cleared the beach of its plastic pollution and other detritus.
Happily, the beach in Saltdean at least is now cleaner because of the Grab Volunteers – which is proof that, with council support, communities can change the environments they live in.
If you would like to get involved in this campaign or any of our other activities please fill out our contact form here
