Less than 2 weeks until #PlasticFreeJuly. 🛎

Since it started out in 2011 as a local initiative in Western Australia, the Plastic Free July challenge has grown into a global movement.

Last year, 250 MILLION people signed up to the challenge and 825 MILLION of kilos of plastic waste have been avoided as a result, according to the charity’s latest annual report.

Of course, you can decide to reduce your single use plastic waste at any time during the year. However, some of us need to know that we are doing it alongside hundreds of thousands of other people across the globe to stay motivated.

You can read a lot of inspiring stories of people reducing their plastic waste at home but also at work thanks to Plastic Free July.

Think about what your priorities are - reducing your food packaging, clearing up your bathroom cabinet, reducing your plastic waste on the go ? - and which steps you can take right now to make your life easier comes July 1st.

Plastic FreeJuly is a good opportunity to get all the members of your household engaged. We did it last year as a family and since then we’ve kept our plastic waste at a very low level.

You can also use to promote Plastic Free July at school, work, in shops, or at cafes in your community by using those posters.

KEEP ME POSTED! I’d love to hear about your #PlasticFreeJuly experiment.

The latest edition of BBC Radio 4 Food Programme is dedicated to seeds. People have spent more time in their gardens this year and have been growing fruit and vegetables out of a desire to become more self-sufficient in their food supply - among others. Growing food is only part of the answer, as the programme shows. Growing food and saving seeds is one of the most radical thing you can do.

Listen to the programme here.

👉 If you are interested in saving seeds, you may want to register your interest here for the online course that Vital seeds will launch soon.

👉 If you want to grow food to give it away to people in need in your community, check out Capital Growth‘s Community harvest here. They can can offer materials, training, 1-2-1 advice and help to connect you with people that can benefit from the food.  

#FixFestUK, the online gathering for community repair in the UK, continues until July 9th. The events are organised by the Restart Project. This Thursday session will be dedicated to ‘Running Good Online Events for Adult Learners’.

London Climate Week is taking place on line this year between July 1st and July 4th. See the programme here.

The food waste reduction charity Feedback is recruiting a Sussex gleaning coordinator.

22k pro rata

Advert available here.