Anna and Ella (pictured) are on a mission to help Salcombe become more plastic clever.
Plastic Clever Salcombe is a campaign run by journalist and environmentalist Anna Turns and her six-year-old daughter Ella.
On the 8th and 9th June, Anna will be doing a 22 mile ‘Paddle & Pick Challenge’, paddling and litter picking along the entire stretch of the Salcombe-Kingsbridge estuary, including all the creeks, with Ella joining her in parts.
The campaign is a part of Kids Against Plastic, a national child-led initiative founded two years ago by sisters Amy and Ella Meek (14 and 12 years old).
Commenting on the challenge, Anna Turns says: “The support we’ve had from local companies has been amazing. Salcombe Distilling Co. is being really pro-active and, as well as being one of our much-valued sponsors, co-founder Howard and some of the team will be joining Ella and I on our paddle on the 8th June.”
Anna continues: “We’re also delighted that they are sponsoring the ‘A Plastic Ocean’ screening as this is a really important, powerful documentary that will hopefully inspire the community to make further changes.” The Plastic Clever Salcombe ‘Paddle & Pick’ coincides with World Ocean Day, which is on Friday 8th June, and finishes with a gathering of supporters at the South Sands Hotel in Salcombe on the Saturday afternoon. Saturday 9th June is World Gin Day so very apt to be celebrating the end of the challenge with a Salcombe & Tonic!
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