Nurseries are increasingly ditching single-use plastic in a bid to eliminate the harmful material from the environment.
According to Surfers Against Sewage (SAS), which runs Plastic Free Nurseries, its programme is growing in popularity with a total of 104 settings signed up.
This is up from 79 in 2018/19 and just one setting the year prior, Tops Day Nursery Havant, which was the first to achieve plastic-free nursery status under the programme.
A spokesperson for SAS said, ‘We are delighted at the growing interest from nurseries making a commitment to eradicate single-use plastic from their settings. Through developing the programme to work alongside the EYFS framework, we are able to help nurseries across the country to introduce the issue of single-use plastic to nursery children and their families and encourage them to be a driving force for change.’
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