Thank you for joining the Essex Plastic Pledge. We’re really pleased your organisation is taking part. Plastic has become a real problem for the planet but together and by making small changes, we really can make a difference.
This resource pack has been designed to help your organisation achieve your pledge with hints, tips and resources.
Over the next year the Love Essex team will be on-hand to support. We’d love to hear your good news stories and achievements so please keep us up to date by tagging us into posts on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram using @loveessexuk.
When trying to reduce plastic waste in your organisation, it’s good to know how much plastic is currently being thrown away. It will help you decide which items are most common, where you can make the biggest impact and allow you to monitor the impact of any changes you make.
If you are looking to complete a waste audit in your organisation, you can download our easy to follow waste audit guide (PDF, 244.81KB).
Engage with staff, customers and visitors to encourage them to avoid using single-use coffee cups by:
You’ll be surprised the difference even some small changes can make to the number of single-use cups being thrown away.
There are many ways to avoid single-use plastic water bottles and cups being thrown away in your organisation.
Waste-free lunches are a great way to cut down on single-use items and help the environment, and they also promote sustainability awareness in staff, visitors and customers.
There are many ways to cut down on waste at lunch time.
Sharing the message on way to reduce plastic means your whole organisation can work together to make a difference. You could run a communication campaign or create a short video to share how your organisation is reducing it’s single-use plastic on social media. Your audience or customers will love to hear the changes you’re making! To help, download posters, social media posts and newsletter content (ZIP, 2,873KB) to share with your audience or customers.
If your organisation often runs events, you’ll be pleased to hear that there are many ways you can make events greener and use less single-use plastic.
For more ideas, download our plastic reduction events guide (PDF, 179.47KB).
Many items will be delivered to your organisation in plastic packaging. Why not speak to the different suppliers and ask if they are able to help with items which come in less or no plastic packaging.
(That's if you don't already have one). Across Essex many local councils and commercial waste operators offer a recycling collection, so if you’re not already recycling your plastics why not get in touch with them for a quote. By recycling, the reduction in general waste costs can often save you money.
There are lots of ways you can reduce your plastic waste. If you can think of any different ways that will work at your organisation, we’d love to hear about them. If they work for you, they may also help other organisations to reduce their plastic waste.
You can find all of the plastic waste reduction guides, content and resources for your organisation below. To get started, simply download the resources you want to use. Or you can download all of the resources at once.
Download the waste audit guide (PDF, 244.81KB)
Download the reusable water bottle poster (PDF, 572.99KB)
Download the reusable coffee cup poster (PDF, 605.00KB)
Download plastic reduction resources to share with staff, visitors, customers (ZIP, 2,873KB)
Download the plastic reduction events guide (PDF, 179.47KB)
Download a case study on how to remove single-use plastic cutlery (PDF, 92.20KB)
Download a case study on how to reduce single-use coffee cups sold (PDF, 90.15KB)
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Tips to improve your recycling
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