Celebrating Poundbury Magazine Issue 6: The bright thinkers and entrepreneurs | Página 2

CHERRYADE LIFE STORE WELCOME TO Celebrating Poundbury E very member of the community has a part to play to help make the world we live in a better place. Sometimes, action is needed to change the way we are living our lives. From its inception Poundbury has always been trailblazing, including the radical new way of building a community as championed by HRH The Prince of Wales in the 80s. Now, as a community I hope we can get together and be part of a solution. That’s why I am passionate about a new scheme to make Poundbury free of single-use plastic waste. It follows the work of an incredible team of children at Damers First School and their inspiring teacher Edd Moore, who in the space of nine months have made their school plastic free. They now want their good work to expand to the whole of Poundbury, then Dorchester and hopefully in the future, the rest of Dorset. Part of their campaign is the introduction of a reCup scheme to limit the amount of disposable tea and coffee cups we throw away each month. And this couldn’t come any sooner. A recent World Health Association report found that there will be a 33% rise in the number of plastic coffee cups used in the UK by 2030 without action to curb their use. The inspiring Eco Crew have already set up a Refill scheme in Poundury where they asked businesses to sign up and allow people to refill their water bottles instead of buying new ones. This year, please join us in celebrating their extraordinary work and get onboard with this new project. You can read all about the scheme and how you can get involved on page 49. Miriam Phillips WWW.CHERRYADE.STORE 180 BRIDPORT ROAD, POUNDBURY FOR LIFE AND HOME @cherryadestore Miriam Phillips Editor [email protected] WWW.CELEBRATINGPOUNDBURY.CO.UK 3