Plastic Free July 2024

Are you looking for ways to be part of the solution to plastic pollution? This July, join millions of people worldwide reducing their plastic waste by choosing to refuse single-use plastic. Check out our resources and ideas below and get inspired to help reduce plastic waste everyday at home, work, school, and even at your local café.

Getting started

Plastic Free Pledge

Sharing with others

Resources toolkit

Getting started

Whether you’re a beginner looking for a few single-use plastics to avoid, ready to take next steps or want to share with others, we have ideas to inspire you at home, work, school, and within the community. Best of all, being part of Plastic Free July will help you to find great alternatives that can become new habits forever.

Take the challenge and get ideas, solutions, stories of other participants and news from across the global movement
Do the Plastic Free July Quiz (it takes less than 5 minutes) to discover the items you use and decide what you’d like to choose to refuse
Decide to take your first step or really challenge yourself!

Take the challenge

Plastic Free Pledge

This year’s Plastic Free July campaign focuses on small changes each of us can make to reduce plastic waste under the slogan “Small steps, big difference”. Each year millions of Plastic Free July participants from over 190 countries worldwide are together making a big difference by choosing to refuse single-use plastic.

An astonishing 10 billion kgs of household waste has been avoided by participants over the last five year because millions of people choose to make a change for cleaner streets, healthy oceans, and beautiful communities or just to do the right thing.

Choose one single-use plastic to avoid or take the pledge to avoid single-use cups, plastic drink bottles, or plastic food wrap. These “Top 3” items are single-use plastic items we commonly use each day that most of us can be easily replaced by;

Refilling reusable water bottles from the tap
Bringing a reusable cup or sitting and enjoy a real cup
Switching from plastic wrap to reusable containers or wax wraps.

Make a pledge

Sharing with others

A great way to continue to grow the positive impact of Plastic Free July is by sharing the challenge with others. The resources toolkit contains assets and promotional tools for people to take to school (using the Plastic Free Schools Program), at work, or share in the community to spread the word.

Across the globe are inspired by the Plastic Free Morning Tea: a popular way of making and sharing food, fun and conversations about plastic free solutions. People who host their own at work, home or out in the community find it’s a great way of inviting others to get involved.

As people are realising single-use coffee cups aren’t readily recycled, many people are choosing to tackle isposable coffee cups during Plastic Free July. Our Choose to Up Cup initiative helps coffee lovers, cafes and workplaces make a big difference. It’s as simple as Bring, Borrow, Stay! Either bring your own reusable cup, borrow or swap a cup from some cafés, or take ten minutes and enjoy your favourite cuppa there.