SILSDEN shoppers are being encouraged to hand back plastic packaging at a supermarket till to highlight how much of what we buy is unnecessarily wrapped.

Plastic Free Silsden is joining communities across the UK hoping to instigate a nationwide ‘mass unwrap’ which has been organised at Silsden Aldi.

The event is part of the Surfers Against Sewage Plastic Free Communities campaign to show the high levels of plastic packaging being used and put pressure on supermarkets to help make changes.

It’s one of a number of actions the local group in Silsden is taking to reduce the impact of single use plastic in the town, including a monthly pop-up refill shop.

Caroline Whitaker, founder of Plastic Free Silsden, pictured left with colleague Louise Farnell said: “We’d love as many people as possible to come down and join us in helping to publicise the vast problem of supermarket created plastic waste.”

The event is held over a two-hour period and in that time customers shop and pay as normal.

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.

It takes place on Saturday, February 29, from 10am to 12pm.