The tourism industry uses 4.2 million tonnes per year.
Plastic pollution is on track to increase by 300% by 2040.
The hospitality industry spends millions on single-use plastics every year creating a huge environmental footprint. At the same time, this is an opportunity for hospitality to show leadership in reducing plastic consumption.
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Greece is committed to safeguarding its hospitality sector from the very real threats of plastic pollution. PlasTICK offers a valuable tool to keep track of our progress towards that commitment to reduce plastic across the sector and set the country at the forefront of sustainable tourism.
- Greek Minister of Tourism Vassilis Kikilias
PlasTICK empowers businesses to annually measure the progress made towards the targets of the Global Tourism Plastics Initiative that requires tourism organisations to make a set of concrete and actionable commitments on circular economy of plastics by 2025.
- GTPI Global Tourism Plastics Inititative
There is a growing movement to reduce tourism’s dependence on single-use plastic.
Citizens are asking for it: sustainable tourism is driving sector growth.
In Europe and beyond, governments are requiring businesses to set plastic reduction targets.
Meanwhile, the UN is negotiating a Global Treaty for Plastic that will create the same step-change in progress as the Paris Agreement did for carbon reporting and offsetting.
Don’t let your business get left behind. Start your environmental impact assessment today!
Common Seas’ mission is to quickly and significantly reduce the amount of plastic produced and stop it polluting our rivers and seas.
We are tackling the plastic pollution crisis by driving new policy, investing in the circular economy, testing and scaling technical solutions and catalysing a cultural shift in how we make, use and dispose of plastic.
PlasTICK was developed in consultation with 125 hospitality businesses in Greece, and was launched with the blessing of the Government of Greece, various hotel associations and Global Tourism Plastics Initiative (GTPI) – an initiative led by UN Environment Programme and UN World Tourism Organisation.
