Twelve schools in Glasgow have embarked on a scheme to reduce the amount of unnecessary plastic waste in their establishments.
The work forms part of the council's plastic reduction strategy, launched in 2019, that places the emphasis on prevention, reuse, recycling and recovery with disposal always as a last resort.
The strategy is aiming to see Glasgow be free of unnecessary plastic by the year 2030 and is backed up by a public consultation that showed overwhelming support for work to reduce single-use plastic consumption in the city.
Plastic Free Schools is a nationwide accreditation scheme run by Surfers Against Sewage, an environmental charity dedicated to protecting oceans, waterways, beaches and wildlife who inhabit them.
Surfers Against Sewage is calling for changes from the playgrounds to the front benches of Parliament and these pupils are helping to drive that change. With over 3,100 schools UK wide taking part in our Plastic Free Schools programme, we are seeing young people just like Hyndland Primary School pupils challenging big businesses and the government to tackle unnecessary single-use plastics in their schools and beyond.
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