Plastic Free

This book explores how one of the world’s leading environmental campaigns took off and shares lessons from its success. Interweaving interviews from participants, activists, and experts, Plastic Free tells the inspiring story of how ordinary people have created change in their homes, communities, workplaces, schools, businesses, and beyond.

Rebecca Prince-Ruiz is the founder of Plastic Free July. An experienced environmental management and sustainability professional, she speaks internationally about how to achieve a world without plastic waste.

Joanna Atherfold Finn is the author of the short story collection Watermark (2018). She is a freelance journalist and has taught at the University of Newcastle.

Melissa Joan Hart, actress:
Plastic Free shows how one person can ripple out and cause good around the globe. Never has there been a more important time to share hope and action, and combine them for our Mother Earth.

Craig Reucassel, comedian and presenter of War on Waste:
Few people have spent as much time as Rebecca Prince-Ruiz trying to work out how to minimise the plastic in our lives.

Captain Charles Moore, veteran seafarer and author of Plastic Ocean:
Plastic Free shows us how to organise around our innate desire for a beautiful, clean environment, and eventually change, in a fundamental way, the system that unnecessarily creates the ugly mess.

Jack Johnson, musician and Plastic Free Foundation ambassador:
Plastic Free July inspires me to step up my commitment to reducing single-use plastic in my daily life and on tour.

Emily Penn, ocean advocate, skipper and co-founder of eXXpedition:
The more time I spend at sea, the more I realise the solutions start on land. This book will guide you on that journey to making global change for the ocean from your doorstep.

Tim Winton:
Not just an inspiring story and a practical resource, this is evidence that grassroots actions by ordinary individuals and communities can make a material difference to the most wicked of environmental and social problems. Hats off.

Bea Johnson, author of Zero Waste Home: The Ultimate Guide to Simplifying Your Life by Reducing Your Waste:
Some people feel overwhelmed by the environmental state of affairs and wait for politicians or manufacturers to change; others, like Rebecca, take matters into their own hands, starting with their own lives. This is the success story of a global movement, a movement needed not only for the earth, but more importantly our salvation. It proves that change is in the consumers' hands, that individual action has more power than ever. Change does await in the hands of each one of us. Use this book to be inspired, or better, use it as a template to change the world in your own way!