'Human chain' to line Weston-Super-Mare in a protest against plastic pollution
Charity Surfers Against Sewage have organised protests across the country as part of their People Vs Plastics campaign.
Protestors in Weston-Super-Mare will be forming a 'human chain' to make a stand against plastic pollution.
The visual protest today (Saturday 19 July) will be a visual demonstration of around 500 people, to show the power of communities visually standing up against plastics.
It's been organised by charity Surfers Against Sewage, with around 20 similar protests taking place across the country.
Rachel Yates, senior communities manager at Surfers Against Sewage, said: "The People vs Plastic is about holding the real culprits to account – taking on the profiteering polluters and broken systems keeping us trapped in plastic. It’s our biggest campaign yet, to end this crisis.
"It’s only right that the Day of Action is marked here in West Cornwall. Penzance is our first Plastic Free Community and has a history of brilliant community moments. Let’s make another one!"
SAS’s People vs Plastic campaign is calling on the UK Government to step up and sort this mess out with an ambitious Global Plastic Treaty. It’s demanding full commitment to changing the law to bring about a circular economy and hold polluters to account – without any more delay.
Tegen-Mor Tossell, from Plastic Free says: "We’re all joining hands to physically show that we’re protecting the sea that surrounds our community. While as a town we have been making a stand by reducing single-use plastic, producers and brands are still pumping out products we just don’t want.
"Please come along and help us send a message that as a community we are doing our best to protect the ocean, and now it’s time producers and big business did the same."