Plastic Free Communities • Surfers Against Sewage

Let’s free where we live from single-use

We’re creating the Plastic Free Community network to free where we live from single-use. Together we’re tackling avoidable single-use plastic, from the beach all the way back to the brands and businesses who create it.

Wherever you live, whether you’re on shore or inland, urban or rural, high-tide or high-rise, we’re uniting communities in the fight against single-use plastics. It’s not about removing all plastic from our lives. It’s about kicking our addiction to avoidable single-use plastic, and changing the system that produces it.

Join us and let’s free where we live from single-use, one plastic bottle at a time!

8,000,000 pieces

of plastic pollution find their way into the ocean every day

320,000,000 Tonnes

of plastic generated globally in 2016. This is set to double by 2034

5000 Items

of marine plastic pollution per mile of beach in the UK

It's about kicking our addiction to avoidable single-use plastic, and changing the system that produces it. Here's how you can get involved:

HOOK UP WITH YOUR COMMUNITY
Get in touch with a Plastic Free Community near you
CHECK OUT THE MAP
BECOME A PLASTIC FREE COMMUNITY LEADER
We’re looking for Community Leaders to unite communities and free them from single-use. Find out how you can lead a Plastic Free Community.
LEAD A COMMUNITY
GO SOLO AND MAKE A DIFFERENCE
Everyone can take action on single-use plastics in their lives. Sign up and download an Individual Action Plan.
START YOUR ACTION PLAN
BOSS IT AS A BUSINESS
Find our how you can take action in your business and become a Plastic Free Champion
COMING SOON
ORGANISE OR JOIN A BEACH OR RIVER CLEAN
Think global, act local. Tackle the plastic pollution that blights your community.
REGISTER FOR A PACK
LET THE KIDS SCHOOL ALL OF US
Give power to the pupils and apply to become a Plastic Free School
FIND OUT MORE

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Let’s Free Where We Live from Single-Use

The Plastic Free Communities Manifesto

We live in a plastic world. It’s an extraordinarily useful, versatile, cheap material. And it’s everywhere.

And it’s a growth industry, with one in every ten barrels of oil now used to create new plastic.

But together, we can make sure we kick our addiction to avoidable single-use plastic, and change the system that produces it.

We can make sure we don’t choke our streets, parks and playgrounds with it. Because if it’s on our street today, then it’s in our rivers tomorrow, and our beaches and oceans forever.

We can make sure each of us understands that we can change this, whoever we are and wherever we live.

But we can only do all of this together. That’s why we created Plastic Free Communities.

It’s a community network across the UK that’s tackling single-use plastic from the beach, all the way back to the brands and businesses who create it.

We’re on a journey to unite communities in the fight against single-use plastics, wherever we find them.

It starts here and it starts with us. And if you’re still reading this, that means you too.

So join us and let’s free where we live from single-use, one plastic bottle at a time.

I’M INTERESTED IN BECOMING A PLASTIC FREE COMMUNITY LEADER

Awesome! Our Plastic Free Communities team will be delighted to help you start the journey.

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