“HOLD THE PLASTIC, PLEASE” GUIDE PROVIDES ALL THE INFORMATION RESTAURANTS NEED TO REDUCE PLASTIC
Beyond Plastics has created a thorough, practical, and inspiring guide to help any restaurant that is interested in reducing its use of plastic make key switches and communicate them effectively to existing customers, prospective customers, the media, and the general public. The guide offers practical advice, tools, resources, and case studies of two restaurants who have successfully reduced their use of plastic.
You can download the guide as a PDF in either web or print resolution:
Download the web resolution guide (4.06 MB PDF)
Download the print-resolution guide (11.4 MB PDF)
Download a one-page handout on the guide (2.74 MB PDF)
IMPORTANT: If you find the guide useful, we hope you’ll share it widely. Click here for our toolkit that makes it easy to share the guide via email and social media.📧📲
NEWS RELEASE
For immediate release: July 25, 2022
Beyond Plastics Releases Free Guide to Help Restaurants Reduce Their Use of Plastics
After years of pandemic-driven take-out orders, many consumers whose drawers are overflowing with plastic straws, disposable plastic cutlery, and single-use plastic packets of ketchup, soy sauce, and mustard are clamoring for less plastic with their food. Fortunately, a new guide called “Hold The Plastic, Please - A Restaurant’s Guide To Reducing Plastic” from Beyond Plastics offers restaurants detailed, practical, and inspiring advice for how to reduce the use of plastic in their operations and how to effectively convey those changes to customers, reporters, and the general public.
The free guide offers practical advice, tools, resources (including funding resources), and case studies, and is available at: https://www.beyondplastics.org/restaurant-guide.
SHARE THE GUIDE
We’ve put together a simple toolkit to make it easy to spread the word about this handy new guide to help restaurants cut down on plastic in their operations. We’ve included an easy to print one pager you can leave with restaurants, graphics and sample text for sharing the guide on social media, an outreach email, and more.
PRINT OUT THE ONE PAGE HANDOUT
Click here to download our one-page black and white handout to leave behind with any restaurants you visit.
QUESTIONS OR IDEAS?
We welcome your feedback. You can contact the guide’s author, Megan directly at: meganwolff2 at bennington dot edu.