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Plastic Free Communities is uniting and empowering individuals, community groups, businesses and local government to reduce their collective plastic footprint.

Meet the Junior Plastic Free Heroes Inspiring their Communities

Across the UK, over 500 communities are empowering individuals, businesses and organisations to take action on single-use, avoidable plastic.  The…

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Take Part in Vital Research on Plastic Free Communities

We want to know what impact the Plastic Communities movement has had where you live. We’re teaming up with the…

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Shocking Volume of Unnecessary Plastic Revealed in the UK’s First Ever Nationwide Mass Unwrap

   Mass Unwrap organisers were inundated with unwanted plastic as shoppers left UK supermarket tills, collecting up to nine pieces…

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Non-recyclable milk bottles banished from plastic free schools

[caption id="attachment_66369" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] Plastic milk bottle pollution - (C) iStock[/caption] TENS OF THOUSANDS OF SCHOOL CHILDREN TAKE THE 'PLASTIC…

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Plans to build Plastic Free Birmingham help set wheels in motion to see 2022 Commonwealth Games become the greenest Games ever

  The 2022 Commonwealth Games could become greener than ever before, as a motion is passed to help one of…

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Island communities lead the fight against plastic pollution

  Surfers Against Sewage and Parley for the Oceans are launching a pilot project aiming to tackle marine plastic pollution…

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Growing trend to reduce plastic at events sees Glastonbury ditch single-use plastic bottles

  One of the UK’s biggest festivals has announced that for the first time it will be ditching single-use plastic…

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Five Steps to Leading a Community

We’ve created Plastic Free Communities to free where we live from single-use. Wherever you live, whether you’re on shore or…

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Small businesses urged to back fight against limit on plastic bottle deposit return scheme

Small businesses are being urged to get behind a call to back a new scheme that will give people money…

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Let’s Unwrap Where We Live from Single-Use Plastic!

We want to Mass Unwrap the UK! Are you in? Mass Unwrap is an awesome, fun and high impact action…

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Isle of Arran is Scotland’s First Plastic Free Community!

We are stoked to announce that the Isle of Arran has become the first community in Scotland to achieve Surfers…

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Education Secretary calls for schools to go single-use plastic free by 2022

Surfers Against Sewage Plastic Free Schools campaign is highlighted as leading example  Georgeham Primary School in North Devon was the…

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Meet the Junior Plastic Free Heroes Inspiring their Communities

Across the UK, over 500 communities are empowering individuals, businesses and organisations to take action on single-use, avoidable plastic.  The…

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