Love your Magnificent Severn

The rain may have stopped the LYMAG7 team from launching their canoes, but it won't stop them from cleaning up our mighty Severn!

The LYMAG7 team will still be appearing at the Whittington Castle Green Fair on 23rd June, along with their coracles and litter pickers.

How you can help to reduce plastic pollution

Reduce! Take a look at your own plastic output, are there any ways in which you can cut out some waste from your life?
Reuse! There are plenty of reusable items in our daily lives that just get thrown away, why not use that takeaway box as your lunchbox?
Recycle! There is always a small unavoidable amount of plastic in our lives but that doesn’t mean there isn’t a right or a wrong way to dispose of our rubbish.
Join in! Just like last year the kind folks at Lyreco are providing litter picking kits for all those that wish to organise their own litter picks. Please get in touch at rivershub@shropshirewildlifetrust.org.uk for an application form and a risk assessment.

We have also employed the services of the Coracle Man, Peter Faulkner, to help us construct our very own coracles to clean the river from in traditional Gaelic fashion. If we all record the litter we collect we can more accurately address the problem of plastics in our lives by targeting the root causes.

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A big thank you must go to our sponsors at Lyreco and British Canoeing. This project is funded by the Shropshire Middle Severn Catchment Partnership.

LYMAG7 trailer (https://youtu.be/A_yIc21_GIc)