
Is your business taking steps to reduce single-use plastics and other waste? We want to help you let everyone know. By participating in the Businesses for the Bay single-use plastics reduction campaign, we will provide your business with a window decal or certificate of participation. Educational table tents and posters may also be available from some campaign partners. We will also add your business to our campaign website and share your commitment on social media.
No costs, bans, or mandatory reduction actions are required to join. By sharing a variety of actions that can be taken we hope to educate, change behavior, and move one step closer to a plastic waste-free planet - one business, one customer at a time.
Campaign Partner Perks:
Website: Your business name and location will be placed on our campaign page.
Social Media: We plan to use our reach to identify your business to our followers. Share pictures and stories using #ReduceYourUse so we can share your commitment with our social media followers.
Window Decal: We will provide you with a peel-off window decal or a certificate that states you are participating in the campaign. In some locations, we may also provide you with literature, such as table tents and posters, to answer questions for your customers.
Local Media: Articles and press releases about the campaign participants will be completed as time and availability allow.
Interested in reducing single-use plastics and waste at your business but you need some ideas? Consider these alternatives:
Plastic Drinking Straws: paper, bamboo, glass, silicone, metal or cornstarch/grain options
Plastic Take-Out Containers: paper or cardboard options, encourage customers to bring their own container
Plastic Cutlery: reusable, eco-friendly bamboo flatware, edible cutlery
Plastic Bags: reusable cloth bags, reusable bags made from recycled materials
Paper: print double-sided or eliminate printing altogether by switching to digital for mail, receipts, bills, etc.
Electronics and Furniture: donate or repair gently used items before discarding
These participating businesses have taken steps to reduce the effect of single-use plastics on the environment.
Uses no plastic straws or plastic drink lids
No plastic bags or Styrofoam offered for take-out/to-go orders
Offering incentive or discount for customers to bring their own reusable cup or container
Utilizing a commercial recycling program
Plastic straw and drink stirrer ban
Using only reusable tableware for onsite dining
Utilizing a commercial recycling program
Plan to ban plastic bags provided by retail operations by 2020
Uses no plastic straws and only provides paper straws on request
No plastic bags are utilized for any merchandise purchases; recycled paper bags are offered or customer must utilized reusable bags
Replaced all polystyrene foam with products made from 100% recycled materials
Using a commercial recycling program
Offers incentive or discount for customers to bring their own reusable cup or container.
Provides plastic straws only upon request
No plastic bags offered for take-out/to-go orders; provides customers cloth or reusable bags made from recycled materials
No Styrofoam for take-out/to-go orders
Uses only reusable tableware for onsite dining; provides reusable or edible/compostable cutlery for take-out; provides disposable tableware only upon request
Utilizes a commercial recycling program
Has a Skip the Straw Challenge
No plastic bags or Styrofoam offered for take-out/to-go orders
Provides customers cloth or reusable bags made from recycled materials
Utilizes a commercial recycling program
Installed water bottle filling stations at drinking fountains
Adopted a Keep Tampa Bay Beautiful "Water Goat" @ McKay Bay
Participating in Coastal Clean-ups
Uses alternative materials straws; only provides plastic straws upon request
Uses only reusable tableware for onsite dining; only provides disposable tableware upon request
No plastic bags or Styrofoam offered; provides customers cloth or reusable bags made from recycled materials
Offers incentive or discount for customers to bring their own reusable cup, container, or bag
Utilizes a commercial recycling program
Supports several zero waste events each year
Uses alternative materials straws; only provides plastic straws upon request
Uses only reusable tableware for onsite dining; only provides disposable tableware upon request
No plastic bags or Styrofoam offered; provides customers cloth or reusable bags made from recycled materials
Offers incentive or discount for customers to bring their own reusable cup or container
Utilizes a commercial recycling program
Uses alternative materials straws; only provides plastic straws upon request
Uses only reusable tableware for onsite dining; only provides disposable tableware upon request
Provides reusable or edible/compostable cutlery
No plastic bags or Styrofoam offered
Offers incentive or discount for customers to bring their own reusable cup or container
Utilizes a commercial recycling program
Uses alternative materials straws
Uses only reusable tableware for onsite dining
No plastic bags or Styrofoam offered; provides customers cloth or reusable bags made from recycled materials
Offers incentive or discount for customers to bring their own reusable cup, container, or bags
Utilizes a commercial recycling program
Provides plastic straws only upon request; uses alternative material straws
No plastic bags offered for take-out/to-go orders; provides customers cloth or reusable bags made from recycled materials
Offering incentive or discount for customers to bring their own reusable bags
No Styrofoam for take-out/to-go orders
Uses only reusable tableware for onsite dining; provides reusable or edible/compostable cutlery for take-out; provides disposable tableware only upon request
Utilizing a commercial recycling program
Plan to add water bottle filling stations around the hotel to eliminate plastic water bottles; customers will be encouraged to use a reusable bottle during their stay
Provide customers cloth or reusable bags made from recycled materials
Offer incentive or discount for customers to bring their own reusable bags, cups, or containers
No polystyrene foam for products/goods/take-out orders
Use compostable packaging, source local, grow ingredients in our organic garden, compost kitchen waste, and use solar lights.
We strive to reduce our carbon 'pawprint'! We love pups and our planet!
Uses alternative materials straws
Uses only reusable tableware for onsite dining
No plastic bags or Styrofoam offered
Offers incentive or discount for customers to bring their own reusable cup
Donating to Keep Tampa Bay Beautiful for every employee who brings their reusable mug or thermos to the office and pledges not to use one-time-use cups, plates and utensils
Stopped ordering all one-time-use cups, plates and utensils
Uses alternative material straws; only provides plastic straws upon request
No plastic bags or Styrofoam offered for take-out/to-go orders
Uses only reusable tableware for onsite dining; provides reusable or edible/compostable cutlery for take-out; provides disposable tableware only upon request
Offers incentive or discount for customers to bring their own reusable cup or container
Saving upcycled plastic to use for projects during art night with education on sustainability
Uses alternative materials straws
Uses only reusable tableware for onsite dining
No plastic bags or Styrofoam offered; provides customers cloth or reusable bags made from recycled materials
Offers incentive or discount for customers to bring their own reusable cup, container, or bag
Utilizes a commercial recycling program
Offer alternatives and solutions to help customers reduce their single-use plastic by refilling bath, body, cleaning and laundry products
Uses alternative materials straws; only provides bio-plastic straws upon request
No plastic bags or Styrofoam offered
Uses only reusable tableware for onsite dining; provides reusable or edible/compostable cutlery for take-out; provides disposable tableware only upon request
Phased out all plastic cutlery and to-go clamshells; have compostable cutlery and take out containers for guests
Created the Cali Cleanup Club to cleanup spaces around the Tampa Bay Area and reduce debris in the environment and waterways
No plastic bags offered for products/goods
Provide customers cloth or reusable bags made from recycled materials
Offer incentive or discount for customers to bring their own reusable bags, cups, or containers
Utilize a commercial recycling program
Switched from disposable paper towels to air dryers or reusable towels
We are a part of Green circle salons and recycle all of our salon waste, we also only purchase sustainably made goods for shop and use all eco products
Use alternative material straws, such as paper, bamboo, glass, silicone, metal or cornstarch/grain options
No plastic bags offered for products/goods
Provide customers cloth or reusable bags made from recycled materials
No polystyrene foam for products/goods/take-out orders
Utilize a commercial recycling program
Switched from disposable paper towels to air dryers or reusable towels
All inventory comes from the used market.
Use a Filtrol Filter on our washer to catch micro plastics before they enter our waterways.
No plastic bags offered for products/goods
Offer incentive or discount for customers to bring their own reusable bags, cups, or containers
Utilize a commercial recycling program
We buy gently used items from customers keeping items out of our landfills.
No plastic bags offered for products/goods
Provide customers cloth or reusable bags made from recycled materials
We take all our recycling materials to a Pinellas County drop site
No plastic bags offered for products/goods
Newspapers, bubble wrap, plastic bags, boxes, etc. provided by customers or consigners are reused in wrapping up purchased items
All items that we cannot resell or use are donated to local animal shelter or other local thrift stores
Clothing items that are brought for resale have to be on hangers, which are then passed onto customers
Provide customers cloth or reusable bags made from recycled materials
Promote creative expression, environmental awareness, and community engagement through education, reuse and the arts.
No polystyrene foam for products/goods/take-out orders
Switched from disposable paper towels to air dryers or reusable towels
Provides fully recyclable packaging, with the exception of insulated liners and ice packs. Customers return these each time they get a new delivery and we sanitize and re-use them.
Use alternative material straws, such as paper, bamboo, glass, silicone, metal or cornstarch/grain options
No plastic bags offered for products/goods
Provide customers cloth or reusable bags made from recycled materials
Local food system uses almost no plastics in distribution and allows glass container return for future products
Use alternative material straws, such as paper, bamboo, glass, silicone, metal or cornstarch/grain options
No plastic bags offered for products/goods
Provide customers cloth or reusable bags made from recycled materials
Switched from disposable paper towels to air dryers or reusable towels
Offers options to refill products to reduce container and packaging waste, recycles and composts business waste, and sells package-free or plastic-free options
Use alternative material straws, such as paper, bamboo, glass, silicone, metal or cornstarch/grain options
No polystyrene foam for products/goods/take-out orders
Provide disposable tableware only upon request
Use recycled cups, paper straws, and paper bags; fiber molded to-go containers; plastic bags are only upon request
Switched from disposable paper towels to air dryers or reusable towels
We are a supplier of compostable wood cutlery