Sick of single-use plastic bags, drinking straws and overpackaging? Depressed by stories of plastic pollution in our seas? Want to do something about it? Join Transition Town Lewes and partners in a new project to cut plastic use across our town.

The Plastic-Free Lewes Project is an initiative by Transition Town Lewes, Depot Cinema, Lewes District Green Party, Lewes Liberal Democrats, Lewes Railway Land Wildlife Trust and Making Lewes. We want to take forward the ideas that local people most want to get involved in to cut unnecessary plastic use in Lewes and do our bit to tackle this growing global challenge.

Plastic Action Workshops
Linklater Pavilion, FREE, register to attend.
Wednesday 31 January, 7.30pm-9pm
We will be holding a second open space workshop to further explore initiatives to get Lewes using less plastic, whether it’s in the home, eating out or shopping. Come with all your great ideas and suggestions. With your help, we’ll take forward the most popular proposals.

The workshops are free but places are limited, so please let us know if you’d like to attend by emailing enquiries@transitiontownlewes.org

To keep up with all the latest activities, join the Plastic Free Lewes Facebook Group

If you have a business or organisation that would like to partner on this project, we’d love to hear from you. Email enquiries@transitiontownlewes.org

Facts about plastic pollution:

• The world is now producing nearly 300 million tons of plastic every year, half of which is for single use. More than 8 million tons of plastic is dumped into our oceans every year.
• Annually approximately 500 billion plastic bags are used worldwide. More than one million bags are used every minute.
• A plastic bag has an average ‘working life’ of 15 minutes – but could last 500 years.
• 14% of all litter comes from beverage containers.
• Over the last ten years we have produced more plastic than during the whole of the last century.

Source: Plastic Oceans