Plastics Challenge

A CALL has gone out from the Canal & River Trust for help to stop half a million pieces of plastic reaching the ocean. Since the launch of its Plastics Challenge last spring, volunteers had given more than 10,000 hours a month to tackle the problem, resulting in a 30% decrease in plastics and litter in and around the trust’s waterways. But with all volunteer activity suspended since March, it is now feared that much of those environmental gains could have been lost during the coronavirus lockdown period.