SAMPLE TEXT FOR YOUR PUBLIC PAGE
Your page has an optional section “For the environment we:” Here are some ideas.
- mention Plastic Free Oceans in our newsletter to encourage the community to sign up and prefer businesses that care for the environment.
- display a HERO poster encouraging people to be HEROES for Plastic Free Oceans.
- allow Year <number> students one hour per week/fortnight in school time to volunteer for Plastic Free Oceans.
- did a fund raiser for Plastic Free Oceans OR other environmental initiatives the school does.
- take all reasonable steps to recycle plastic waste.
- aim to purchase products and produce with the least plastic packaging.
- provide non-plastic drinking straws or reusable drinking straws in our food outlets.
- provide non-plastic cutlery and/or plates for take aways.
- use non plastic fully compostable lids and cups for take aways.
- use non-plastic, non-polystyrene/Styrofoam take-away containers.
- do not serve water in plastic bottles.
- use solar power OR we purchase only 100% renewable electricity.
- have LEDs for most of our lighting.
- have printed cards that visitors can take and consider signing up.
- compost our canteen scraps.
- have a school vegetable garden.
- often add general posts, like I would to Facebook, to my PFO page then click the share buttons to Facebook and/or Twitter so others see my PFO post and I hope they will also become part the solution to the plastics crisis.
- did fundraiser for Plastic Free Oceans
- … you get the idea.