MONMOUTHSHIRE council’s Labour group leader will look to stop selling some single use plastic water bottles at the authority’s buildings at a meeting on Thursday.

Cllr Dimitri Batrouni will ask fellow councillors to back his plan that bottles which hold less than a litre are no longer sold at County Hall in Usk or at its Magor base.

He said it is estimated the UK uses around 15 million plastic bottles per day and that within a decade the world’s oceans could hold one kilogram of plastic for every three kilograms of fish.

He said: “Monmouthshire is a green county. People respect and appreciate the environment.

"Anyone who walks around Monmouthshire’s coastline, even around our rivers and streams, will come across all sorts of rubbish, especially plastic bottles.

"We know they do great harm and the Labour group believes the Council should make a principled stand and encourage the use of re-useable containers.”