The campaign to make Bridport plastic free has been formally supported by the town council and will continue in the new year.

Councillor Ian Bark, mayor of Bridport, made getting plastic free status for Bridport a target during his term as first citizen, something he thinks will be achieved.

He said: "Plastic free has done really well, we've completed the community section and are in the midst of the commercial and that's had a really good response.

"We will probably be able to, within my term of office, achieve Plastic Free Bridport, which is the target I set out, which is wonderful."

Although they have supported and backed the campaign, councillors then made it official that the town council gave its support during a meeting of

Cllr Bark then explained exactly what being a plastic free town meant.

"The campaign is really about single use plastic," he said, "the aim is to take it out of circulation as much of the single use plastic as we can.

"For example, down in West Bay, there's only one of the kiosks now that uses polystyrene containers to serve their fish and chips, all the others are using paper one, that's partly as a result of plastic free.

"It's little things like coffee stirrers, they are using bamboo ones now instead of plastic, Balson the butchers no longer gives out plastic bags, he even wraps his meat cut in the traditional way of paper and people take away in that form.

"Lots of little ways like that."

Cllr Karen Hunt highlighted some settings that may be overlooked when it comes to encouraging people and businesses to be plastic free, such as hairdressing.

She said: "It's great when fish and chips are served in something else, but there are an awful lot of other spaces in which single use plastic is being used and it is really easy to overlook.

"I think it would be great that what we're doing in Bridport is not just doing exactly what other people are doing, but going further and remembering those spaces."

Cllr Bark added: "It's reaching the bits that you don't normally reach which is the challenge. There's a lot of, what I call, low fruit out there that we can pick off easily, but were determined as a group to go for some of the higher fruit as well."

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