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POP IN PLACE NEWS DORSET TRADING STANDARDS

Thank you to all who supported our Dorset County Council Trading Standards Service check and
Macmillan coffee morning approve businesses so you don’t have to.
For more information visit www.buywithconfidence.gov.uk or
More details will follow next month call 08454 040506.
To report or seek advice about problems you have
Pop In Place Food Crisis Support experienced when dealing with a trader call 08454 040506.

The Pop In Place have a Food Crisis Project, if you are struggling and you need Single-use plastics are only used once before they're thrown away. The problem
food please get in touch we have gained funding to provide crisis packs for with plastic waste is that it doesn't break down, it only breaks up into smaller and
people in the Parish in a difficult situation. smaller parts. This impacts the environment and wildlife for years to come.
If you need this service please email in confidence, and we will help. According to estimates, England uses 2.7 billion items of single-use cutlery, most of
which are plastic, and 721 million single-use plates per year. Of these, only 10%
Gardeners appeal for fruit and are recycled. If 2.7 billion pieces of cutlery were lined up, they would go round
the world over eight and a half times (based on a 15cm piece of cutlery).
veg
Previous efforts to eliminate avoidable plastic waste, include:
If anyone has a glut of any veg or fruit and
would like to donate them to others, we will One of the world’s toughest bans on microbeads in rinse-off personal care
have a box outside the door of the village products announced in 2018.
Hall on a Thursday nights to collect them Restrictions on the supply of single-use plastic straws, drink stirrers and cotton buds
and then we will have a stall at the in 2020.
community café the next morning. Thank
you to everyone who is already doing this it Plastic Packaging Tax in April 2022 whereby a tax of £200 per tonne was
is greatly appreciated. introduced on plastic packaging manufactured in, or imported into the UK, that
does not contain at least 30% recycled plastic.

Pop In Place Movement to Music Classes The 5p single-use carrier bag
charge, in May 2021 which
The classes will take a holistic approach to wellbeing. They are primarily designed was increased to a minimum
to promote physical health by helping people of all ages and abilities stay or get charge of 10p and extended
more active, improve overall fitness, muscle strength and joint flexibility using a to all retailers, taking billions
combination of chair based exercises and dance/gentle aerobics based of bags out of circulation.
ones. Over time I will be creating some simple routines for some of the exercises
as this can help with cognitive functioning. All the exercises will be to music to Last year the UK Government
promote mental health and well-being and where possible, movements can be consulted on banning other
adapted, so that people with movement limitations can still join in. There is also no types of single use plastic and
pressure on anyone to do all the exercises and if anyone wants to sit out any of they reported that over 95%
them they will be very welcome. The classes will be in a friendly relaxed of those who responded to
atmosphere where everybody will be made very welcome. the consultation were in
favour of the bans.
The classes are 45 minutes in duration and will be held every Monday from 11am-
11:45 at the Village Hall. The cost is £4 per class payable on arrival at the hall So, in October 2023 a new
ban on other singe use

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