Aims
Our key aims are to help reduce plastic pollution in Swindon and work towards zero waste.
How do we get there?
Activities
- Engage with the public, schools and colleges, businesses, MPs / government, the borough and parish councils, and others.
- Website.
- Run and support campaigns and organisations.
- Attend events.
- Presentations.
- Research.
- Liase with media.
- Social media.
- Leaflets.
- Host and attend events.
- Resolve issues.
- Facilitation.
- Support.
- Collaboration.
- Provisions for inclusion / diversity / equality.
- Government lobbying (local and national).
- Attend council meetings.
History
Plastic Free Swindon was launched for Plastic Free July 2018 through Swindon Climate Action Network, a Friends of the Earth group. We grew the campaign until, in 2020, we became a standalone organisation. In 2024, we moved away from Friends of the Earth and signed up as one of Surfers Against Sewage's Plastic Free Communities.
Timeline
- July 2018 Plastic Free Swindon launch
- September 2018 Refill Swindon launch
- January 2020 Merged with Keep Swindon Tidy
- March 2022 Launched Growing South Swindon Community
- April 2022 Regular slot on the Birds and Bees show
- January 2024 Launched Help Me IT
- January 2025 Signed up for Plastic Free Communities.