Over 30 pledge to go plastic free
The Manx bid to clear its beaches of plastic waste is getting a helping hand - from across the Irish Sea.
While FIM Capital Beach Buddies are hard at it on the Island, a group of businesses on the Wirral, on the Merseyside Peninsular, have signed up to become plastic free.
Thirty-five have so far vowed to stop using polystyrene takeway trays and start using paper ones. They are also switching from sugar sachets to sugar cubes and using paper straws instead of plastic ones.
Beach Buddies have been in existence on the Island since 2006 and since then, hundreds of volunteers have picked up hundreds of thousands of bits of rubbish on beaches and disposed of them in an environmentally friendly way - recycling where possible.
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