Premier League Vs Plastic

Campaigns (19)

• London
  

  Arsenal: Ditch single use plastic

  By 2050 there will be more plastic than fish in our seas. But Premier League football clubs still give out hundreds of thousands of single use plastic items every single matchday. Plastic cups, straws, stirrers, bags, they all end up clogging up our oceans and filling landfills. Having been a long time supporter of Arsenal, I have been to many matches and been left horrified at the amount of single use plastic given out on match days. From hot drinks served in single use cups, to copious amounts of beer being served in plastic pint glasses, there's plastic stirrers, plastic water bottles and even plastic beer bottles! The average attendance at Arsenal matches last season was 57,000 people - this means there's an absolutely eye watering amount of single use plastic being used at every game. Arsenal say they have put in measures to be a more environmental organisation, including separating plastic bottles and cups from waste on match days and passing them on to their cleaning contractor to be recycled. They claim to divert 10 tonnes of plastic and cardboard per month from landfill - but this is not enough. Its fine to state that Arsenal recycle, but we need to see hard evidence of this plastic waste being recycled by their cleaning contractor. Otherwise this is all merely lip service. More than this, however, we want to see Arsenal move away from single use plastic entirely. The UK does not have the infrastructure to recycle the amount of plastic waste that we produce every year, this means that most of it is shipped abroad - and there is growing evidence that this plastic ends up in landfill in countries such as Turkey and Bangladesh, instead of being recycled. Arsenal have a huge responsibility to ditch single use plastic - a starting point could be a reusable cup scheme as seen at many UK festivals, paper straws instead of plastic ones, and biodegradable coffee cups. The technology exists to move away from single use plastic - it's time Arsenal took the lead and showed other Premier League clubs the way forward.

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  Created by Annabel Staff
• Watford
  

  Watford FC: Ditch single use plastic

  By 2050 there will be more plastic than fish in our seas. But Premier League football clubs still give our hundreds of thousands of single use plastic items every single matchday. Plastic cups, straws, stirrers, bags, they all end up clogging up our oceans and filling landfills. Football supporters shouldn't be forced to contribute to plastic pollution, just because they want a drink or some food at a match.

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  Created by Ian Buckley
• Brighton
  

  Brighton & Hove Albion FC: Ditch single use plastic

  By 2050 there will be more plastic than fish in our seas. But Premier League football clubs still give our hundreds of thousands of single use plastic items every single matchday. Plastic cups, straws, stirrers, bags, they all end up clogging up our oceans and filling landfills. Football supporters shouldn't be forced to contribute to plastic pollution, just because they want a drink or some food at a match.

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  Created by Jenny Fyans
• Wolverhampton
  

  Wolverhampton Wanderers: Ditch single use plastic

  By 2050 there will be more plastic than fish in our seas. But Premier League football clubs still give out hundreds of thousands of single use plastic items every single matchday. Plastic cups, straws, stirrers, bags, they all end up clogging up our oceans and filling landfills. Football supporters shouldn't be forced to contribute to plastic pollution, just because they want a drink or some food at a match.

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  Created by Marcia Reid
• Leicester
  

  Leicester City: Ditch single use plastic

  By 2050 there will be more plastic than fish in our seas. But Premier League football clubs still give out hundreds of thousands of single use plastic items every single matchday. Plastic cups, straws, stirrers, bags, they all end up clogging up our oceans and filling landfills. Football supporters shouldn't be forced to contribute to plastic pollution, just because they want a drink or some food at a match.

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  Created by Sara Priestley
• Burnley
  

  Burnley football club: Ditch single use plastic

  By 2050 there will be more plastic than fish in our seas. But Premier League football clubs still give out hundreds of thousands of single use plastic items every single matchday. Plastic cups, straws, stirrers, bags, they all end up clogging up our oceans and filling landfills. Football supporters shouldn't be forced to contribute to plastic pollution, just because they want a drink or some food at a match. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is an island of discarded plastic that is now triple the size of France. Some organisms thrive off discarded plastic, forming a new type of ecosystem called a "plastisphere". Scientists have found plastic bags at the bottom of the Mariana Trench 36,000 feet below sea level. A glass bottle can take roughly one million years to degrade in the environment. Every year 18 billlion pounds of plastic seeps into oceans from coasts.

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  Created by Rebecca Speakman
• Liverpool
  

  Everton FC: Ditch single use plastic

  By 2050 there will be more plastic than fish in our seas. But Premier League football clubs still give out hundreds of thousands of single use plastic items every single matchday. Plastic cups, straws, stirrers, bags, they all end up clogging up our oceans and filling landfills. Football supporters shouldn't be forced to contribute to plastic pollution, just because they want a drink or some food at a match.

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  Created by Ray Beeton
• Liverpool
  

  Liverpool FC: Ditch single use plastic

  By 2050 there will be more plastic than fish in our seas. But Premier League football clubs still give out hundreds of thousands of single use plastic items every single matchday. Plastic cups, straws, stirrers, bags, they all end up clogging up our oceans and filling landfills. Football supporters shouldn't be forced to contribute to plastic pollution, just because they want a drink or some food at a match.

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  Created by PAULA HOPKINS
• Cardiff
  

  Cardiff City FC: Ditch single use plastic

  By 2050 there will be more plastic than fish in our seas. But Premier League football clubs still give out hundreds of thousands of single use plastic items every single matchday. Plastic cups, straws, stirrers, bags, they all end up clogging up our oceans and filling landfills. Football supporters shouldn't be forced to contribute to plastic pollution, just because they want a drink or some food at a match.

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  Created by Stephen JB