Plastic Attacks are now spreading across the world. A small group of shoppers decided they had had enough of excessive amounts of plastic packaging. Their idea was simple, ‘just leave it all behind!’

Now Plastic Attack comes to High Wycombe!

The group meet outside the supermarket holding banners, hand out informative flyers and talk to other shoppers in order to raise awareness of the cause. They then encourage the other everyday people coming to the supermarket to do their shopping to join in the event on the day.
The shoppers then enter the shop, fill their trolleys with the general items they require for their weeks food shopping and head to the checkouts.
Their goods are then paid for as normal.
After checkout the shoppers then start to strip all the plastic packaging from the food they have purchased and it is collected into trolleys by the organisers.

Food is then repackaged into reusable containers and bags often made from alternative plastic free materials. The organisers try to provide any shoppers who don’t have their own bags and containers with bags and boxes which they have saved from going to landfill to be reused at the event.
The management at the store are then informed that the plastic packaging will be left behind as a direct protest about the overuse of this unnecessary waste, and that the supermarket now take responsibility for ensuring it is recycled correctly.
They are then asked pass the message on (in the form of a letter or information, and any petitions as signed by shoppers and concerned local people) to senior levels of management in the hope that they will listen to their customers, and both change the way they package their products and put pressure on their suppliers to do the same.
Food is then either taken home by the shoppers or sometimes people donate this to local food banks or other local charities through the organisers if they wish.