PUPILS and their families from Okehampton Primary School recently enjoyed a single-use, plastic-free fair with stallholders displaying a variety of plastic-free products.

Fresh, locally sourced and package-free produce was for sale from Okehampton’s own Harvest Workers’ Co-op who also brought along a mystery alternative to plastic bags.

Visitors were invited to guess what the bag was made out of and eventually worked out, after a few clues, that it was made from thistle starch!

They also enjoyed making their own bath bombs with the help of staff from bath products company Lush, who also demonstrated how to wrap gifts using cloth squares made from recycled bottles.

Alternative plastic-free toiletries were on display and children were also able to make their own plastic-free hand scrub using a variety of natural ingredients including cocoa powder!

Visitors also learnt how beeswax wraps were made using locally-sourced ingredients.

The event gave pupils the opportunity to talk to visitors about the Refill scheme which the school is currently supporting.

Pupils are helping shops in Okehampton to become registered as Refill outlets. Anyone can call into a shop displaying the logo and fill up their reusable water bottles for free, thus reducing single-use plastic.

The event at the school on Wednesday last week (April 24) came out of marine litter workshops undertaken by Years 3 and 4 pupils led by an organisation called Resource Futures.

Pupils showed off their litter and plastic-free posters and letters they’d written to school dinner caterers Chartwells and Okehampton MP Mel Stride explaining their concerns about single-use plastic.