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At UK Youth Day in central London on 12 August, festival-goers arrived carrying the one thing most events spend considerable effort trying to get rid of: plastic waste.
Rather than buying a ticket, visitors to the event in Victoria Embankment Gardens brought polypropylene and HDPE plastics, which were sorted and fed into live recycling workshops. Organisers had three large bags of recyclable material left by the end of the day, which will now be turned into an artwork with advice from sculptor Zac Ové and unveiled at an exhibition and fundraiser at October Gallery in September.
“I am a father, my son is four and I often think about what we are leaving behind for him and his friends,” founder Darcy Thomas tells Positive News. “My son and I often take part and arrange community clean ups in our spare time and it has changed how he views waste and his involvement in keeping our planet clean, stewardship and taking action.”
