community initiatives

➔ Choose one of these 26 replicable, workable zero waste solutions for streets, communities, and businesses to implement in your community!

➔ Create a party kit for your community or find one near you on the Party Kit Network

➔ Launch a bring-your-own-container program in your community

➔ Share YUO’s Going Disposable Cup Free' guide for hospo with your local cafe

➔ How to start a Library of Things

➔ Ask your council to do a Good For The Hood community solutions workshop in your area

➔ Use these resources and tools to help plan and promote Neighbours Every Day activities and events in your community to create connection

➔ Use the Ten Towns Ten Actions Toolkit to rethink plastic waste in your community

➔ Start a US Reduces effort in your own town or city

➔ Get a Plastic Free Places project going in your community

➔ Start volunteering at a local community garden or for a community initiative that excites you and suits your skills set, such as a local repair cafe, food co-op, or food rescue organisation.

protect our environmenT

➔ Take our 8 Weeks to Waste Free Challenge!

➔ VOLUNTEER FOR/BECOME A MEMBER OF:

• Zero Waste Victoria

• Your local Boomerang Bags group

➔ DONATE:

• reusable menstrual products to Share the Dignity, which collects personal hygiene products for women experiencing poverty and victims of domestic violence. All you need to do is purchase it online.

➔ PETITIONS & CAMPAIGNS TO SUPPORT:

• Ask your council for a cloth nappy and reusable sanitary product rebate - set up or sign one of the many petitions already out there (list here)

• Ask Albertsons, Kroger, Target & Walmart to stop selling PVC gift cards

• Share Beyond Plastic’s In The Bag guide for dry cleaners to move beyond plastic

• Support the Lights, Camera, Plastic? campaign tackling single-use plastics on screen

• Send this letter to your local grocery stores asking them to phase out single-use plastic packaging

• Sign this petition to ban plastics in coffee cups

• Email Trader Joes to demand it keeps its word to drop wasteful, single-use plastic packaging

• Share YUO’s Going Disposable Cup Free' guide for hospo with your local cafe

• Launch a bring-your-own-container program in your community

• Sign the Australian Greens’ Petition to Ban Unnecessary Plastics

• Sign Takeaway Throwaways’ petition calling on the New Zealand Government to ban single-use disposable food and drink serviceware and mandate accessible reusable alternatives instead

• Urge outdoor gear retail giant, REI to stop selling all products that contain PFAS by sending an email to REI's CEO, Eric Artz and it's board of directors

• Call on Tasmanian politicians to support a ban on the top 10 single-use plastics (Tasmania and the Northern Territory are the only places in Australia that don’t have a plan to ban single-use plastics)

• Join or promote Upstream’s national policy campaign to #SkipTheStuff in the United States

• Help the Peninsula Preservation Group’s fight against quarrying virgin bushland on Arthurs Seat by signing their petition and contacting the relevant minsters to ask them to not let this happen.

• Send a pre-written email telling decision makers that after the fires, forests need protection.

• Coca Cola is running a campaign to reverse VIC government’s decision to use a split responsibility model for its container deposit system. If it wins, the environment, consumers and charities will be all the poorer. Sign a letter to the Environment Minister here.

• Send a quick 255 character message to your state or territory Environment Minister telling them to ban single-use plastics using this template by WWF.

• Sign this petition asking Amazon to Offer Plastic-Free Packaging.

• Support Stop Ecocide, sign their petition, and become an Earth Protector to fund a law that can stop the harm and protect Earth - making ecocide a crime.

• Sign this Sir David Attenborough-approved petition demanding $500 billion for nature and to help protect Our One Home.

• Sign this petition for a consumer right to repair enshrined in legislation.

• Sign this petition to ask milk companies to stop using unnecessary and unrecycable foam seals in lids.

• Sign this petition to ask the Australian government to reject waste to energy plants and instead promote the creation of a circular economy.

• Tell Amazon: Stop polluting our planet with plastic packaging

• Tell EPA: Ban toxic vinyl chloride

• Use these posters to spread awareness about the impact of balloons (available in 16 languages)

climate emergency

➔ PROTEST:

• Go to Climate Change Protests Australia to find out when your next local protest is.

• Not in Australia? Find a local Extinction Rebellion or other climate action group to join or start a local climate action group!

➔ DONATE:

• Australian Youth Climate Coalition (AYCC) - a movement of young people leading solutions to the climate crisis

• Australian Conservation Council (ACF) - Australia’s national environment organisation, which is campaigning for immediate action

• Extinction Rebellion Victoria for arrestee support or ongoing running costs (links specifically for XR VIC)

• 350.org Australia - it aims to rapidly end fossil fuels by building a global climate movement

• Seed - an indigenous youth climate network hoping to create a more just and sustainable world

➔ PETITIONS & CAMPAIGNS TO SUPPORT:

• Sign the petition to demand the Australian government actually protects the Great Barrier Reef by rapidly ditching fossil fuels.

• How to start a back-up battery collective

• Let Origin Energy know why you’re concerned about its plans for fracking in the NT and pledge to leave and if it doesn’t listen.

• NAB AFL Auskick helps kids stay healthy, but NAB are destroying their future by funding dirty energy. Email AFL's CEO asking him to engage NAB on a healthy future for all our kids: http://dontnabourfuture.good.do/auskick

• Sign this petition to support the #TorresStrait8 as they take their case against the Australian Government to the United Nations for inaction on climate change.

• Add your name to AYCC’s open letter calling on Australian politicians to put #PeopleBeforeProfits and create a Clean Jobs Guarantee for our communities.

• Sign the petition to support the introduction of the Climate Change Act in Australia (worldwide support needed!!!)

• Endorse The Safe Climate Declaration and join the call for Australia’s climate emergency transition.

• Call on all social media platforms to detox their algorithms by ending the amplification and monetisation of disinformation around climate change by signing this petition.

• Notify your child’s school about the 2040 film’s free curriculum resources for teachers to engage students with climate solutions and the themes in the film.

• Sign the Open Letter calling on our elected representatives to work together to get big money out of our political system and put people and planet back in.

protect our society

➔ DONATE:

• reusable menstrual products to Share the Dignity, which collects personal hygiene products for women experiencing poverty and victims of domestic violence. All you need to do is purchase it online.

• Support SisterWorks’ e-Hub, which empowers migrant, refugee and asylum seeker women to build digital literacy, gain new knowledge and skills, and learn more about living in Australia

• Moving Feast is helping vulnerable people while building a resilient and just food future.

➔ PETITIONS & CAMPAIGNS TO SUPPORT:

• Change politics by showing your support for citizen’s assemblies

• #BlackLivesMatter Solidarity Actions & Education Resources guide by the Australian Youth Climate Coalition & Seed Indigenous Youth Climate Network

• Help tackle poverty in the fashion industry and stand with the women who make our clothes by adding your name to Oxfam’s campaign to demand big brands pay a living wage.

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