CLIMATE change campaigners are joining a ‘mass unwrap’ at a Chard supermarket this weekend.

Plastic Free Chard are groups nationwide set to take on the protest as part of the Surfers Against Sewage Plastic Free Communities campaign.

Town councillor Serena Wootton, lead volunteer for the event, said: “On this Leap Year Saturday, we are trying to engage with the town shoppers and the supermarket to highlight to use of unnecessary single use plastic in our everyday lives.

“People that want to reduce their use of single-use plastic and find it really hard when it is everywhere in and around everything we buy.

“If the supermarkets can help to reduce what we find in the shops it will help.

“Tesco themselves are pledging to replace their plastic bags used with loose fruit and veg and the plastic bags that the plastic bags for the deli breads, which is a great start.”

The event is held over a two-hour period and in that time shoppers’ shop and pay as normal. When they move away from the till they can then visit a Mass Unwrap volunteer, who will help them take any unnecessary plastic packaging from their purchases and put it in a trolley for recycling or disposal. Counting up the items as they go volunteers will be gathering evidence to show the scale of wrapping used.

Serena Wootton, lead volunteer for the event, added: “This event is a unique way of raise awareness of this in a positive way. Thank you everyone that joined in.”

To get involved as a volunteer, contact the Plastic Free Chard by Facebook, or at her councillor email, serena.wootton@chard.gov.uk.

To get involved as a shopper head to Chard Tesco between 10am and noon on February 29.