UFFCULME Green Team have been campaigning against single use plastic in a Surfers Against Sewage Mass Unwrap event.

The team had an ‘unwrap area’ outside the village’s Co-op store where volunteers helped customers unwrap their shopping – the plastic packaging was then returned to the Co-op and sent for recycling to Avonmouth.

A coffee morning was held at Square Corner in the centre of the village where people could find out more about what the Green Team was doing. Co-op manager Stephen Clegg spent a few minutes there talking to people about how the supermarket is trying to find sustainable alternatives to plastic packaging.

Uffculme Primary School took part – children had made beeswax food wrappers to sell.

And young people in the local amateur dramatics society performed the worldwide Climate Action song ‘Do It Now’ dressed in tabards decorated with plastic of all descriptions.

St Mary’s Parish Church had a fair trade stall, a cake stall and raffle were on offer, and parish council representatives spoke with visitors about activities they could get involved with to improve the village.

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