Barcelona Zero Plastic Commitment

This Commitment is the working framework for actions to reduce and eliminate single-use plastic. It is organised into five parts:

Awareness-raising
Reaffirmation of commitments
Acquired commitments
Call for action
Projects

It is part of the series of projects aimed at reducing or eliminating single-use plastics that organisations have committed to undertake over the next twelve months. These projects reflect different lines of action:

Promoting reusable items
Greening
Supply of products for users
Reuse circuit/logistics
Training/awareness-raising

The Commitment wants to be a driving force for change, and that’s why it aims join and bring visibility to the initiatives undertaken the city's organisations to achieve a plastic-free city. It also aims to act as a catalyst and a representative for actions and projects to reduce the use of single-use plastics in order to move towards a healthier society with a stronger commitment to the future.

For this reason, a call for action was issued to the city’s different economic and social agents, city residents and the administrations to join in with their initiatives in order to show the city’s potential while also encouraging people to join in to oppose the culture of disposable items, focusing on single-use plastics.

Members of the Barcelona Zero Plastic Commitment have the following benefits:
- Recognition of the many transformative initiatives that exist in the city.
- Contacts with other organisations with the possibility of establishing new business relationships.
- Visibility as an organisation committed to sustainability and the reduction and elimination of single-use plastic in the city.
- Inclusion in Barcelona’s Zero Plastic Commitment Open in a new window route on the More Sustainable Barcelona Map.
- Seal for being an organisation that belongs to the Barcelona Zero Plastic Commitment.
- Inspiration through the exchange of experiences with other organisations.
- Participation in a collective action in the city.
- Promotion of the culture of sustainability, as an objective of the company's social and environmental responsibility.
- Opportunity to further the precepts of the law (for example, the obligation to offer tap water).
The Barcelona Zero Plastic Commitment is the result of the Zero Plastic CommitteeOpen in a new window Open in a new window, which was launched on 18 November 2019 to express the city’s desire for and commitment to zero waste, under the auspices of the Citizen Council for Sustainability, within the framework of the Zero Waste strategy and as one of Barcelona City Council's responses to the climate emergency.

Its mission has been to facilitate and accelerate the 47 voluntary projects to eliminate and reduce single-use plastic undertaken by the participating companies, organisations and administrations.

The Committee has been running for one and a half years (twelve working sessions and three sessions of the steering group), contributing knowledge, enriching the organisations’ projects and inspiring new actions.

More than 80 organisations took part, and it has been a space for multi-sectoral work, exchange, learning and reflection that has contributed to creating synergies among the different social and economic parties involved.

You can find all the information on the Committee’s sessions by clicking on this linkOpen in a new window Open in a new window.

Joining the Barcelona Zero Plastic Commitment

Reductions in public-sector charges

Further information

Sessions realitzades

We free Barcelona from disposable plastics

The Barcelona Plastic Zero Commitment presented novelties and work done last year under the Barcelona Zero  Plastic Commitment.The day was o...

Location:

Ajuntament de Barcelona. Sala Barcelona (Glòries)

When:

22/02/2024

A year of Barcelona Zero Plastic Commitment

After three years of work by the Zero Plastic Table and one of the elaboration of the Barcelona Zero Plastic Commitment, Barcelona City Council contin...

Location:

Ajuntament de Barcelona. Saló de Cròniques (Plaça Sant Jaume, 1)

When:

24/11/2022

Acte de presentació Compromís Barcelona Plàstic Zero

Amb el Compromís Barcelona Plàstic Zero, la ciutat fa un pas endavant per la reducció dels plàstics d’un sol ús i per fer front a la cultura d’usar i ...

Location:

En línia

When:

14/07/2021