Plastic banner heralds town’s plastic-free rank

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A TOWN celebrated becoming plastic-free by unveiling a giant banner made out of plastic.

Historic Chepstow, on the border of England and Wales, was awarded plastic-free status by the environmental group Surfers Against Sewage. Campaigners spent four months working with the council, businesses and organisations to find alternatives to single-use plastics, such as straws and disposable cutlery.

To celebrate it success, the campaigners organised a plastic-free market and hung the 3m banner over its 13th century stone archway on Sunday.

But town councillor and former mayor Armand Watts said: “This is beyond irony. The town council probably hadn’t even thought about the material.” –Daily Mail