Did you know that...

• The UK uses a staggering 38.5 million single-use plastic bottles every day
• In the UK, we use 7 million disposable coffee cups every day
• Food and drink related plastic items now make up one in every five pieces of litter
• It's thought between five and 13 million tonnes of plastic end up in the ocean every year
• Worldwide, 100,000 marine mammals and turtles and 1 million seabirds are killed by plastic pollution annually.

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Take action - take the Plastic Free Pledge​

Join in the Chesterfield community working together to reduce single-use plastic pollution
The Plastic Free Pledge states that you:

• Work to remove at least three single-use plastic items from your day to day activities (if you don't use any single-use plastic in your group/organisation then you can qualify)
• Commit to include your stance on single-use plastic in your communications internally and externally
• Promote Plastic Free Chesterfield and plastic-free activities, events and initiatives