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Plastic-free procurement at work (Plastic Free July and UK Packaging Pact)

Run a bin audit, change the kitchen and procurement, and, if you buy packaging at scale, join the UK Packaging Pact (successor to the UK Plastics Pact).

Organisation
Plastic Free Foundation / Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP)
Duration
1 to 3 months
Licence
Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission (ACNC) registered; WRAP UK charity 1159512
Checked on
23 September 2026

Plastic Free July's 'At work' pages walk a team through a bin audit, kitchen swaps, engaging colleagues and changing procurement contracts. For companies that put packaging on the market, Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP)'s ten-year UK Packaging Pact (about 100 members) replaced the UK Plastics Pact, which ended in 2025 having met two of its four targets (99.8 per cent of listed problem plastics eliminated; 26 per cent recycled content).

Honest caveat: the Australia, New Zealand and Pacific Islands (ANZPAC) Plastics Pact still accepts members but its site shows only the expired 2025 targets, so we do not list it until new targets appear.

How to start: plasticfreejuly.org/get-involved/what-you-can-do/category/at-work/ and wrap.ngo/take-action/uk-packaging-pact

Sources last verified 23 September 2026. Page updated 23 September 2026. How we check sources