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Nominations for the Plastic Free Awards are now closed. Check back for more news on the shortlist and our overall winners soon!
The Plastic Free Awards is the coolest environmental awards. Now in its second year, the awards recognise champions from all walks of life including young campaigners, community leaders, small businesses, charities, designers, entrepreneurs, sports clubs and schools, with a shared mission of stopping plastic pollution.
Founded by Surfers Against Sewage and the Iceland Foods Charitable Foundation in 2019,
the Plastic Free Awards is an environmental awards category, celebrating innovation and activism tackling avoidable,
single-use plastics.
Nominations are open to the public across twelve categories.
In 2019, over 850 nominations were received covering individuals, businesses, innovators and pioneers in the
fight against plastic pollution.
The second hosting of the Plastic Free Awards will be a light at the end of the tunnel after months of extra work and hardship. It will feature as a way to celebrate those making the biggest contributions to stopping plastic pollution, cleaning up our environment, redesigning our relationship with plastic, innovating new products and materials, and freeing where we live from single-use plastics.
Launch
27th October
Entries
27th October 2020
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26th March 2021
Judges Announced
December
Judging
February
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March
Event
17th June 2021
Nominations for the Plastic Free Awards are now closed. Check back for more news on the shortlist and our overall winners soon!
Best Plastic Campaign
What is the best campaign you've seen to raise awareness of and tackle plastic pollution? What campaign has inspired you the most? What campaign are you, your organisation or community group most proud of?
Plastic-Free hero
Who has inspired the UK to tackle the plastic pollution and change the way we view single-use plastics? Do you know a champion that you'd like to nominate? Are you that person?
Youth Activist
Do you know someone under 18 who is taking radical action on plastic pollution? Which young voice is winning hearts and minds, and taking the nation by storm?
Sporting for Change
Is your local sports club leading the charge on plastics? It could be your community football club, surf life-saving club or a Premier League star that is changing attitudes towards single-use plastics in the sector.
Design Innovation: Reduction
What is the best plastic-free innovation you've seen? Nominate inventors, businesses, entrepreneurs, designers and big thinkers.
Community Movement
Communities in villages, towns and cities are coming together to take action on plastic. Where is the strongest Plastic Free Community in the UK? Which community has been the most successful in uniting to reduce the use of plastic?
Reduce & Reuse Award
How are new systems helping us reduce our plastic footprint? From beach toy libraries to water fountain networks, what ideas helping you avoid using plastic have excited you most?
Small Business Leader
Have you got a high street full of plastic free options? Refill stores, greengrocers, iron mongers, butchers, bakers - we want to know who's doing a brilliant job of freeing your high street from single-use plastics.
Plastic-free Venues & Events
Cafes, music venues, festivals and stadia are all getting involved with eliminating plastics. From local deposit return schemes on cups to straw-free festivals, we've seen it all and we'd love to know your favourite!
Schools Champion
The Plastic Free Schools movement is growing fast, but which school is passing this exam with flying colours? Which school or student is getting straight A's on plastic action?
Change Maker
Researchers and scientists are stepping up to solve the plastic pollution issue. Do you know an individual or group who has carried out groundbreaking research or made a promising scientific breakthrough to reduce plastic pollution?
Plastic Free Creative
Who has raised awareness of plastic pollution through their creative talents? Do you know someone who has composed a song, written a story or produced artwork to inspire people to take action on plastic? Nominate musicians, sculptors, painters, authors and other creatives.
We are a national marine conservation and campaigning charity.
We have been at the forefront of plastic pollution campaigning for over a decade, empowering hundreds of thousands of beach clean volunteers, founding the Plastic Free Communities movement, delivering award-winning campaigns and helping create positive change including the plastic bag charge and the commitment to deposit return schemes.
Our Mission
To create ocean activists everywhere.
Our vision
Thriving ocean, thriving people.
Our Values
The ever-growing SAS community believes in staying connected with the ocean. To strengthen this bond, we live by four core values, that matter deep down, to us all.
Open
Together, we're passionate, down to earth campaigners, born out of the community, with a deep unrelenting love of the ocean. We believe in building diverse, inclusive and active communities.
Dynamic
We are dynamic, active, energetic doers. From the beaches to the front benches, we bring people together, empowering them to get stuck in and make real change happen.
Authentic
We are human, doing our best. When we don't get things right, we learn from it. We believe in authenticity. You can't fake trust.
Creative
We are creative and entrepreneurial. We move fast, think far and believe the future is bright. From our humble home, we make waves (of all shapes and sizes) to improve our greatest gift. A healthy ocean = a healthy society.
For more information and to join the movement visit:
www.sas.org.ukWe're a community dedicated to the protection of oceans, waves, beaches and wildlife. We fight long and hard to protect what we love and we won't stop until it's completely clean, safe and protected for everyone, forever. From humble beginnings in Porthtowan Village Hall in 1990, we've stayed close to our roots and continue to be based just up the road at our St Agnes HQ where we can keep an eye on the sea.
The IFCF has donated over £23 million to good causes in the UK in the last 20 years. Since 2010 it has focused principally on fundraising for dementia research, donating £10m to UCL Dementia Research to help fund construction of the London hub of the new UK Dementia Research Institute, more than £3m to Alzheimer's Research UK, and over £1m to the Alzheimer's Society and Alzheimer Scotland. Other major donations have included £3m to Alder Hey Children's Hospital, over £1.5m to Help For Heroes, and £1m to Prostate Cancer UK.
Congratulations to all last year's winners and thank you to everyone who submitted a nomination. We were blown away reading about all the inspiring work being carried out across the nation and cannot wait to see what the 2021 awards brings. Watch this space!
Best Plastic Campaign
EcoElle
Ghost Fishing UK
#2minutebeachclean
Plastic-Free
hero
Will McCallum
Amanda Keetley
Dr Christian Dunn
Youth Plastic
Pioneer
Ella & Caitlin McEwan
Louis-Matisse Nicholls
Harry Watson
Sports
Champion
Lewis Pugh
Kiko Matthews
Hannah Mills
Plastic Production
Re-Innovation
Flexi-Hex
BeeBee Wraps
WAES Footwear
Plastic-free Community
Plastic Free Penzance
Plastic Free Lyme Regis
Plastic Free Anglesey
Reduce & Reuse Award
City to Sea
- Refill Campaign.
Odyssey Innovation.
Blue Marine Foundation
- SAFEGEAR.
Small Business
Champion
Rapanui
Plastic Freedom.
un_rap
Plastic-free Venues and Events
Boston Tea Party
Shambala Festival.
The Pop-Up Eco
Supermarket.
Schools
Champion
Damers First School
Georgeham C of E (VC) Primary School
Stow Primary School.
#TOOCOOLFOR-
PLASTIC CHAMPION
Matt Downes
Sir Malcolm Walker Award
Sir David Attenborough
Here are a selection of images from the last Plastic Free Awards. Thank you again to everyone who attended and entered the last Plastic Free Awards. It was a fantastic celebration of plastic free champions across the nation and highlighted all the great work happening to win the war on single use plastic.
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