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

How to Go Top of the Plastic Free Class

With lots of families kitting out children of all ages to go back to class in September, it’s a great…

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New Plastic Free Communities Advisory Group Launched

As the Plastic Free Communities movement continues to grow, Surfers Against Sewage brings together Community Leads from across the UK…

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Take a Plastic Free Holiday

Summer is well and truly on us! Before the schools break up and the mass exodus starts, we thought we’d…

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Join the Refill Revolution!

  [caption id="attachment_69949" align="aligncenter" width="552"] (C) Tom Baker[/caption] As hundreds of communities across the UK work to start freeing where…

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Canary Wharf Crowned the World’s first Plastic Free Communities Approved Commercial Centre

Canary Wharf Group has become the world’s first Commercial Centre to be awarded Plastic Free Communities Approved status by Surfers…

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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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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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Old plastic milk bottle on beach

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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Plastic-Free Wedding Hacks. Top tips for going plastic free on your big day.

  Are you looking to tie the knot soon but don’t want your big day to be full of plastic tat…

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