Plastics campaign calls for grassroots action to cut pollution across the UK

Individuals, schools and businesses are urged to adopt a five point plan to help make their towns and cities free of single-use plastic

• Plastic pollution threatens 'near permanent contamination of the natural environment'

Communities across the UK are being urged to spread grass roots resistance to single-use plastic to reduce the millions of tonnes of it seeping into the oceans.

Local councils, schools and businesses will be targeted in the Plastic Free Coastlines campaign that aims to ape the movement to end the use of plastic bags.