How To Get Involved

We do not expect communities to be totally plastic free. Our aim is to tackle the single-use plastic crisis, so that’s the avoidable stuff that’s everywhere. Things like plastic drinks bottles, disposable coffee cups, sachets, bathroom plastics, excessive food packaging, takeaway containers etc. These are the things that have a huge impact on our environment and which we can make changes to eliminate. Check them out here:

Yes! Plastic pollution affects all communities. It does not matter where you are, whether you’re on shore or inland, urban or rural, high-tide or high-rise, you will be helping stop the plastic tide. You do, however, have to live within the UK.

Anyone! You can sign up as an individual and build up a group around you to help. Or you can sign-up as a group of friends or an organisation. We just need one point of contact, and one individual to sign the Community Lead Agreement. There’s no set time commitment, it is entirely voluntary and led by you, the community. We don’t want to take over anyone’s existing efforts, but simply help unite groups across the UK and empower individuals and communities to take action.

There are Five Objectives which you will work towards to attain the Plastic Free Communities Accreditation. This forms the basis of what we hope will be long term change in your community. The first thing to do is to check them out in the Community Toolkit. If you’re happy to go ahead and lead your community, then register with us and start making your way through the toolkit. How you choose to tackle it is up to you, you know your community best and how to engage with it.

We are delighted that the Plastic Free Communities movement has attracted so much support and interest across the globe. We are a small charity with limited resources, and the phenomenal success of the campaign in the UK means that at this point we are not set up to support communities outside the UK. Please know that we are actively looking at this and hope to activate the programme in the future with a full set of resources. We will announce this on our channels as soon as it is live.

First of all you need to register with us so we know you are working on the campaign. Once you’ve registered you’ll receive a resource pack from us with all the information and material you need to be able to take action. You’ll also get access to an online Community Dashboard through which we send resources and campaign alerts and you can upload your progress and apply for Plastic Free Communities status. You’ll get invited to Regional Hubs and events and we’re here to help.