If it can’t be reduced, reused, repaired, rebuilt, refurbished, refinished, resold, recycled, or composted, then it should be restricted, designed or removed from production
Peter Seeger
On this page you can find links to all information referenced across the entire website: practical advice on how to reduce plastic, our toolkits downloads, links to other organisations, videos, articles and academic research.
Practical advice
- List of plastic free shops
- Recipes for food staples & treats
- Recipes for making toiletries
- Recipes for making cleaning products
- Recycling Info
- Repair Cafes
- Plastic free school resouces
- Plastic free(ish) ideas for school fundraisers
- RHS Plastic free gardening tips
- Sustainable pregnancy and parenting
- Gloucestershire Real Nappy Project
- Plastic free parenting
- 10 zero waste snacks for kids
Videos
- Action on Plastic – what we’re all about
- Action on Plastic’s Vimeo channel
- Recycling Myths
- Ellen MacArthur Foundation, Companies share their experience
- How to make Deodorant
- Time to #RethinkPeriods
- SAS Plastic Free Communities
- SAS Meet Communities
- Plastic Free Schools
- Kids Against Plastic
- WWF on plastic pollution
- The Story of Plastic trailer
- Make your own newspaper seedling pots
- Make your own cloth wipes and lotion
- What my kids eat in a day – from zero waste blogger, Mamalina
- Beeswax wrap tutorials from The Beeswax Wrap Co – making, folding and refreshing
Toolkits & maps
- Plastic audit of your home
- Plastic audit at work
- Toolkit for Plastic Free Communties scheme
- Map of zero waste shops near me
- Map of milk refill stations near me
- Refill.org Map
- Poster – Reduce Plastic in your Workplace
- Plastic free at Work – Friends of the Earth
- Plastic Free Business Know How (SAS)
- Find your local Plastic Free Community lead (SAS)
Articles
- Moving from individual to societal change
- Resource extraction and carbon emissions
- Paper versus plastic
- Bioplastics – recyclable, compostable or disposable?
- Bioplastics – a plastic revolution or a pile of rubbish?
- Plastic microfibres from clothing
- The ethics of cotton
- The dilemma with bamboo
- Bamboo coffee cups tested
- Microplastics stunt the growth of worms
- Baby bottles release millions of microplastic particles
UK Organisations
The History of Plastic
- Open Edition Journals, article on the history of plastics
- Roland Geyer, academic paper of the production, use and fate of all plastic ever made
Climate Impacts
- CIEL Plastic and Climate – Hidden Costs of a Plastic Planet (2019)
- Strategies to reduce the global carbon footprint of plastics (Nature Climate 2019
Plastic Pollution
- Carbon Tracker 2020 report
- Breaking the Plastic Wave PEW 2020
- Alliance to End Plastic Waste 2020 progress report
- Plastics in the marine environment
- Microplastics in the air
- Plastic pollution in soil
- Exposure to microplastic in plastic in fish
Circular Economy and Systems Change
- Ellen MacArthur Foundation circular economy resources
- Zero Waste Europe – Dare to imagine a better future…starting with plastic