The Big Plastic Count 2022
/Calling schools, community groups, businesses and households across Kilmarnock and Loudoun...
I’ve signed up to take part in the #BigPlasticCount – the UK’s biggest ever investigation into household plastic waste.
The UK produces more plastic waste per person than almost any other country in the world – only the US is worse. If things carry on as they are, the amount of plastic waste produced around the world is set to double by 2040.
It is a campaign I welcome as Shadow Spokesperson for Energy and Climate change.
At the moment, there’s nowhere near enough evidence to show how much plastic leaves UK households.
Join me for The Big Plastic Count to tally your bottles, packets and other plastic bits for just one week: 16-22 May 2022.
This will count towards a national data set which will help us find out how much plastic waste is really leaving UK homes and what happens to it. The more people that take part, the more new evidence we can build.
You can take part as a household or school classes can join up.
