It's an uphill challenge, but there are plans to cut out all single-use plastics on Yr Wyddfa.
For Alec Young, the Plastic Free Yr Wyddfa officer, this work is personal. Born and bred within the park, he returned after some years away with a background in sustainability, looking to have "a more local impact on the place that I love" and "change it for the better".Project officer Alec Young is a native of the area and keen to help restore its environment
With 95% of their guests coming specifically to climb Yr Wyddfa, the couple have paid close attention to how they can help walkers to eat and drink without having an environmental impact. "We have fresh fruit and we do send them up the mountain with a green composting bag and ask them to bring back everything that they take with them."
John cited a litter collection carried out on just one section of path which yielded several hundred disposable drinks bottles.Cymdeithas Eryri removes around a tonne of litter from Yr Wyddfa and the main tourist hotspots in Eryri every year. As most of it is light plastic waste, it amounts to a huge volume.He added: "This isn't a place where you can police your way to an answer.
"I think a lot of people might think it means plastic bottles, drink bottles etc, but as he explained, if you look at our other retail areas, the amount of single-use plastic was going unnoticed," Mr Hughes said. Revamping supplies in the café will also be a challenging task. Switching to cans has not previously been a success because they are not resealable.
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