It was a busy Friday lunchtime at the Hive Beach Café at Burton Bradstock with the launch of their new biodegradable takeaway packaging and an award presentation.

To mark the launch the beachfront café was giving away 20 of its new takeaway packaging on Friday, filled with fish and chips - and a hungry queue started gathering at the takeaway window just before 12noon.

Bridport mayor and mayoress, Ian and Anne Bark, were invited to the Hive to help launch the new takeaway boxes, as they are great supporters of people and businesses doing their bit to reduce the amount of waste – and they thoroughly approved of them.

Councillor Ian Bark also presented the Hive's operational manager, Andrew Hartley, and executive chef, Lewis Ford, with two Plastic Free Champion awards, one for the Hive and the other for The Club House in West Bexington. The awards are from Surfers Against Sewage and is given to businesses that remove a minimum of three items of single-use plastic from their everyday operations.

This is something close to the mayor's heart as he pledged to make Bridport a plastic free town when he was elected first citizen and has set up Litter Free Champions and From Street to Sea mass litter pick.

He said: "When I became mayor, one of the first things I did was to target Bridport to become a plastic free community.

"What the Hive Beach Company has done for removing plastics and being environmentally friendly is great, as well as the support it gives people at the beach cleans, with free coffee and tea - in recyclable cups - which all helps to oil the wheels."

The new bio-degradable boxes seemed to go down just as well as the fish and chips, with a Hive subscriber sharing on social media: "Sometimes it's worth checking your email - very happy customers."

The Hive and its sister cafés, the Watch House Café at West Bay and The Club House at West Bexington, are the first in Dorset to join the Not-Plastic revolution with these great boxes from @Notpla. They're 100 per cent biodegradable as they use seaweed and plant extracts to line the boxes instead of harmful materials often used – and it will biodegrade in as little as four to six weeks.

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