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

100 Plastic Free Communities

As Plastic Free Communities celebrates its 100th approved location and 700th sign-up, we take a look back at the campaign…

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How to reduce single-use plastic in the pandemic. #LessPlasticPlease

This Plastic Free July is really important. It's happening just as huge plastic polluters are using the pandemic to roll…

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Unpacking Refill and Reuse in the Age of Corona

Scroll back to February 2020. It felt like we were beginning to turn the tide on plastic pollution. Business and…

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Plastic Free in a Time of Covid

While the global pandemic has meant we’ve had to make some big changes to how we live our lives at…

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Support Local, Support the Ocean

Covid-19 has upturned life in our communities and across the UK local businesses are some of the most impacted by…

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UK Communities call for #LessPlasticPlease as Mass Unwrap Gets Underway

Surfers Against Sewage is calling on communities to make a stand against pointless plastic packaging during a Nationwide Mass Unwrap.…

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Plastic Free Communities Call for #LessPlasticPlease

  Mass Unwrap 2020 calls on communities across the UK to highlight the scale of pointless plastic packaging in supermarkets.…

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#PlasticFreeChristmas: 3 Christmas Cheers for our Plastic Free Communities

The Christmas countdown is on and with it a mission to tackle the mountain of single-use plastic we can all…

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Call for Volunteers as SAS Get Set to ‘Mass Unwrap’ the UK

Surfers Against Sewage is calling on communities to make a stand against pointless plastic packaging, as we launch the UK’s…

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Halloween Hacks (Of the Non-Scary Kind)

We’re heading straight to Plastic Hell! Halloween is upon us and it’s a living nightmare when it comes to avoiding…

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Strode College Becomes the first Plastic Free Communities Approved College in the UK

Strode College has joined a growing network of communities across the UK who are leading the way to tackle throwaway…

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The Plastic Free Hacks Helping Zoopla Inspire Offices Across the UK

Property website Zoopla, has become the latest UK business to take action on its environmental impact, through a Plastic Free…

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Plastic Free in a Time of Covid

While the global pandemic has meant we’ve had to make some big changes to how we live our lives at…

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