PLASTIC FREE with Depeche Mode & Hublot

Our partnership with Hublot and Depeche Mode is on a mission to tackle global plastic pollution at the grassroots. The projects fit into three overarching categories. This category is Plastic Free

The Plastic-Free category covers projects that reduce single-use and other plastic waste by engaging businesses, providing sustainable alternatives and through campaigning and education. These include:

ROUND 1

• IbizaPreservation – Plastic Free Ibiza and Formentera (Spain): working with businesses in the hospitality and tourism industry to reduce single-use plastics and promote a circular economy.
• Cyprus Environment Foundation – Plastic Free Beach (Cyprus): Empowering the Plastic-Free Beach concept in Cyprus through promotional events and working with local municipalities to ensure they stay that way!
• Sicily Environment Fund – Plastic Free Schools Small Islands (Italy): a campaign and competition to reduce single-use plastics in schools across 14 of Sicily’s islands, awarding 3 schools with water purification plants.

 

ROUND 2

• Menorca Preservation – Plastic-Free Menorca (Spain): Launched in 2020, the Plastic-Free Menorca Alliance combats plastic pollution by upcycling plastic waste and fishing gear, certifying businesses, and providing tools for a plastic-free future. 
• Cyclades Preservation Fund – Me & My Plastic (Greece): Providing school children of the Cyclades islands with plastic pollution educational materials and activities, while encouraging students and teachers to take action for a more sustainable future. 
• Tuscany Environment Foundation – BlueFishers (Italy): Substituting highly polluting polystyrene fish boxes with EU approved reusable polyethene ones. This initiative is being piloted on over 50 small fishing vessels in Viareggio. 

 

ROUND 3

• Mallorca Preservation – Plastic Free Mallorca (Spain): An umbrella project of three action plans working to reduce plastics in agriculture, raise awareness, and promote direct action by volunteers. Features include plastic mulching made of potato starch-based biofilm that is 100% biodegradable.

• Dalmatian Islands Environment Foundation  – Plastic Free Dalmatian Islands (Croatia): Working to reduce and reuse plastic waste in the Dugi Otok Island, at the intersection between the tourist sector and protected areas.

• Turquoise Coast Environment Fund – Plastic Free Shores (Turkey): Working with beach visitors to reduce single-use and disposable plastic usage on the shores of Antalya while training local hotels and hospitality businesses on plastic-free alternatives.

• Sicily Environment Fund – Unpacked Shopping (Italy): Establishing a community of businesses that avoid product packaging and promote the use of reusable or consumer-owned containers instead.