In 2022, an incredible 250,000 of us came together and counted our plastic waste for a week. We showed that nearly 2 billion pieces of plastic are thrown away each week in the UK, but only 12% is recycled.
Thousands of you shared these results with your MP, and called for achievable policies to tackle the plastic waste crisis. This helped put plastics front and centre when the Government came to set environmental targets. But so far, they’ve failed to act.
That’s why The Big Plastic Count is back - and this time we’ve got an even bigger target in our sights. Countries are currently negotiating a Global Plastics Treaty.
Will you join us? The more people who take part in The Big Plastic Count, the more evidence we can gather to show that there’s still far too much plastic being produced.
We’ll then present this evidence to the UK Government and put pressure on them to back a strong Treaty. This is our opportunity to get a global plan to reduce plastic production.