Single Use Plastics

Aims and Objectives

South Ribble Borough Council aims to prevent the use of Single Use Plastics with all council operations both direct and in-direct, and to be a ‘single-use-plastic free’ authority by March 2025, with a minimum 85% reduction by March 2021
encourage partner organisations to follow suit and prevent the use of SUPs within their businesses
encourage South Ribble Businesses to stop using SUPs
promotion of the SUPs initiative among staff, Members, and the public to reduce their consumption of SUPs.

ending the sale and provision of all SUPs products such as bottles, straws and disposable cups at all council buildings and sponsored events by March 2020
undertake a full audit of council operations to identify where SUPs are consumed by the council by March 2020
to identify alternatives to the use of SUPs and complete a financial and environmental impact assessment on the procurement of alternatives
to embed within all supplier contracts that no SUPs will be used within work undertaken for the council (with some basic exceptions)
to produce educational material for staff, members, schools, businesses and the general public to encourage the reduction in use of SUPs
to work with large manufacturers to reduce SUPs consumption, particularly with regard to packaging.