Mold Plastic Reduction aims to eliminate single use plastic and reduce all avoidable plastic use and waste.
MOLD SPRING CLEAN 2025
Calling all residents of Mold and surrounding villages.
The biggest and best Mold Spring Clean will take place from 24 March. to 6 April.
Whether you’re an individual, have a local business, work in a school or are involved with a local organisation, we’d love you to join us, especially on Super Saturday, 29 March.
We’ll be litter picking, transforming what we find into useful objects, and voting for the most creative junk sculpture, and there’ll be an opportunity for everyone involved to meet Mold’s Spring Clean mascot, Springy.
If you’d like to help tidy the town, please contact Mold Town Council for details of what’s going on and when, by emailing: events@moldtowncouncil.org.uk.
CUTTING OUT PLASTIC IS A CHALLENGE
Plastic is cheap to produce and convenient to use – and those two ‘advantages’ are what makes it hard to get rid of.
8 million pieces of plastic pollution find their way into the ocean each year;
320 million tonnes of plastic were generated globally in 2016, set to double by 2034;
OUR GOAL IS TO ELIMINATE OR REDUCE PLASTIC USE
Mold Plastic Reduction aims to eliminate single use plastic and reduce all avoidable plastic use and waste, empowering people visiting, working and living in our town and surrounding villages to refuse, reuse and recycle, and in so doing to help drive a more sustainable and circular economy.
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COVID-19 - WHAT ARE THE IMPLICATIONS FOR PLASTIC USE?
According to Surfers Against Sewage (SAS), reducing single-use plastic is as important as ever, with individual actions to reduce throwaway plastic still vital to our wellbeing (see Plastic Free in a Time of Covid).
Surfers Against Sewage have also looked at government guidance and recent scientific research on the role of single use plastics in combatting Covid-19 (see Unpacking Refill and Reuse in the Age of Corona).
You might also be interested in this Health Expert Statement Addressing Safety of Reusables and COVID-19 [PDF] which makes it clear that reusable systems can be used safely by employing basic hygiene.
