CAMPAIGNERS are calling for volunteers to help form a human chain in Penzance later this month to protect the ocean from plastic pollution.

Part of The People vs Plastic campaign by UK charity Surfers Against Sewage (SAS), the event, to be held on Saturday, July 19, will need an estimated 500 people to gather on the historic Penzance Promenade.

SAS have teamed with Plastic Free Penzance to take a stand against the plastic polluters and call for immediate action to turn the tide on plastic.

From midday, they will gather volunteers to run the chain from Wherrytown Skate Park to the Jubilee Pool, as part of a national day of action.

Rachel Yates, from Surfers Against Sewage, said: “The People vs Plastic is about holding the real culprits to account – taking on the profiteering polluters and broken systems keeping us trapped in plastic. It’s our biggest campaign yet, to end this crisis.

“It’s only right that the Day of Action is marked here in West Cornwall. Penzance is our first Plastic Free Community and has a history of brilliant community moments. Let’s make another one!”

SAS’s People vs Plastic campaign is calling on the government to step up and to encourage the introduction of an ambitious Global Plastic Treaty.

Tegen-Mor Tossell, from Plastic Free Penzance, said: “We’re all joining hands to physically show that we’re protecting the sea that surrounds our community. While as a town we have been making a stand by reducing single-use plastic, producers and brands are still pumping out products we just don’t want.

“Please come along and help us send a message that as a community we are doing our best to protect the ocean, and now it’s time producers and big business did the same.”

Members of the public can get involved by registering at: confirmsubscription.com/h/j/CBC3ED879C1A0A78