The Waste Action Group are inviting everyone, including children, to come along to the Community Market in Crediton Town Square on Saturday 8th June from 10am to 1pm to help make a summer flower garden out of Waste Plastic!

 Artist in charge of the project Carolyn Scott added  'It is a fun project and we would like to get as many people as possible involved in building the flower garden. We are all thinking about summer now, so this is the ideal time to be creating a very different type of garden. We will be using hundreds of clean plastic bottles, tubs and carrier bags plus other assorted plastics all of which have been collected at our plastic recycling days. You do not need to be creative to take part and children are especially warmly invited to have a go as help will be supplied. If the finished project is stable enough we hope to be able to leave it in Town Square for a few days for everyone to admire as part of the Crediton Festival.'

Group Facilitator Paula Mossman explained 'The amount of plastic we throw away in our landfill bins every week is enormous. Most plastics cannot be recycled as part of the Mid Devon household recycling scheme but can still be recycled with a little effort at Punchbowl and Ashleigh Recycling centres and on Sustainable Crediton's regular plastic collection days. To highlight the problem of plastic being 'junked' after just one use and also to show how versatile and useful plastic can be, we will be building a Flower Garden out of waste plastics at the Community Market on June 8th.' 

At the market on June 8th there will also be a plastics recycling display and a stall featuring the new Incredible Edible Town Garden team who are planning to build a veg garden in the Square from which the growing produce will be free for anyone to help themselves!

So please put the date in your diary now and join us on 8th June for a fun morning.