PlasticScore Announces Challenge To Celebrate Plastic Free July
Industry: Environment
The challenge offers the opportunity to win restaurant gift cards while building a movement for a world free of plastic pollution
Denver, CO (PRUnderground) July 8th, 2020
PlasticScore is running a challenge for Plastic Free July, providing people the chance to offset their plastic impact, win gift cards to local restaurants, and help build a movement for a world free of plastic pollution.
CEO Mladen Gajic says the organization is picking up a piece of trash to offset every single-use item you get eating out or ordering takeout! People can review restaurants on the PlasticScore app available in the Apple Store or on Google Play, and get entered for a chance to win! Also, in support of the Black community, every gift card will be to a black-owned restaurant in the contestant’s local area. Everyone who leaves one review will have the chance to win a $50 gift card.
Gajic is looking to bring an end to trashy dining, which he describes as, “In addition to your food and drinks you also receive single-use materials that are used for a just a few minutes before being thrown away, like plastic straws. Dining waste is a significant contributor to plastic pollution and climate change.”
Plastic Free July is a global initiative of the Plastic Free Foundation. 250 million people participate annually in the event, which started in 2011.
PlasticScore’s mission is to have a world free of plastic pollution. Scientific projections indicate there will be more plastic in the ocean than fish by 2050. Gajic says. “A recent study shows that people consume a credit card’s worth of plastic every week because plastic breaks down into microplastics that contaminate our food and water.”
PlasticScore is committed to moving the restaurant industry to a circular economy model, which emphasizes reuse, recycling, and composting in order to limit the industry’s impact on plastic pollution and climate change.
To participate, download the PlasticScore app, patronize your favorite restaurants, and leave reviews. Reviews build awareness around dining waste, as well as provide data to help promote and share sustainable restaurant practices. People can also follow PlasticScore on Instagram and Facebook for updates of the organization’s trash clean-up initiatives throughout the United States.
