Plastic Free Farnham

We did it! Farnham has become the 1st community in Surrey to receive Plastic Free Community status from in recognition of our efforts to reduce plastic use 🎉🎉🎉Huge thank you to all involved 💚

This encourage the next generation to get involved to help us end the plastic pollution crisis! Begin by simply educating them about the importance of breaking our dependence on plastic. Read stories, play games where they look for alternatives or get involved in a beach or river clean. They are our future and will help us eliminate single use plastics once and for all.

Have you ever looked in your wardrobe and noticed that many of your are now made from man-made fabrics instead of natural fibres or perhaps a mix of both? In the world of clothes, plastics have found an unexpected but increasingly widespread niche. We look at their role and how you can make more choices for your wardrobe. https://www.plasticfreefarnham.org/how-to-make-your-wardrobe-more-sustainable

How to make your wardrobe more sustainable Have you ever looked in your wardrobe and noticed that many of your clothes are now made from man-made fabrics instead of natural fibres or perhaps a mix of both? In the world of fashion clothes, plastics have found an unexpected but increasingly widespread niche. We look at their role in fashion an...

Compostable and Biodegradable materials - most of us get confused as to what these terms mean, what the differences are between the materials they represent and to what extent they do what they suggest. So here is an attempt to help us get out of this confusion!

https://www.plasticfreefarnham.org/compostable-and-biodegradable-materials

Weighing up the pros and cons of the bioplastics boom There are now many alternatives to plastic used in everything from packaging to textiles but how good are they and are they sustainable? We take a look at the pros and cons of bioplastics and what the terminology actually means.