Actions, Ideas and Good Practices

Ministry of the environment

Since October 4, 2018, the Ministry of the environment launched the Plastic Free Challenge: every employee of the ministry received a canteen, tap water dispensers were installed and plastic cups were replaced with compostable paper cups. The appeal was also addressed to administrations, institutions and companies. The ministry will give its patronage only to plastic-free events

Virtuous Universities

With a memorandum of understanding with Marevivo, the Italian universities have undertaken to encourage the elimination of disposable plastic by installing a water dispenser, a coffee machine with paper cups, with the option 'without dispensing the glass', encouraging the use of personal cups

Virtuous Spending

The Dutch chain Ekoplaza has plastic-free compartments in 74 stores. Ecologos has launched 14 Light Shops in Italy and two abroad: the use of disposable plastic is not foreseen, but the reuse of containers and paper bags. In London, the Thornton Budgens supermarket has a plastic-free department: some packaging has been replaced with paper coated with wax.

Ecotourism

The Locanda Leggi di Ecologos format - the first is in Turin - only provides for loose products and has banned disposable products. ZPW™ECOTURISMO activated by the farm La Facenda in Maremma is a certification to eliminate plastic waste in 3 stages

SKY - an ocean to save

Campaign launched by Sky with the aim of safeguarding the seas from plastic pollution, in addition to various support actions for start-ups and projects, provides for the elimination of single-use plastics from all activities by 2020. From plastic bottles to product packaging, including materials used in the studies.

Reusable Straws

Plastic straws are among the 10 wastes that are most easily dispersed in the environment: there are alternatively reusable steel straws or made of biodegradable materials. A creative solution was born from a seaside resort of the Cliento in Paestum, where the " ZeroCanucce '' campaign was launched and they were used as an alternative for ziti - pasta shape

Toothbrushes

The toothbrushes with the interchangeable head last almost forever and allow a plastic saving of 92%, with each head replaced. Alternatively you can use the bamboo toothbrushes.

Food films

Food storage films can be replaced with glass or rigid plastic containers, or with innovative solutions such as Abeego's Beeswax Food Wrap, a reusable and washable food wrap coated with beeswax, also based on beeswax but made in organic cotton and aimed at producers. La Pezza - Natural Food Packaging is the product of a start-up and is proposed as an alternative to traditional packaging

Plates

The traditional ceramic plate that can last from generation to generation is the most sustainable environmental alternative, for group lunches and dinners as an alternative. You can use durable dishes in rice husk or plastic, or in palm leaf, washable only in some cases, but easily compostable

Cups

Pcup, the smart glass, is generally dedicated to young people, it includes a silicone glass with a microchip that is given when buying one or more drinks in a bar / disco or similar. The credit is recorded in the microchip and the glass is given as a deposit to be returned at the end of the evening