{"id":680,"date":"2018-10-25T12:58:34","date_gmt":"2018-10-25T11:58:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gecco.org.uk\/blog\/?p=680"},"modified":"2026-03-26T11:41:25","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T11:41:25","slug":"havant-nursery-first-to-achieve-plastic-free-schools-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gecco.org.uk\/blog\/2018\/10\/25\/havant-nursery-first-to-achieve-plastic-free-schools-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Havant nursery first to achieve Plastic Free Schools title!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"et_pb_section_0 et_pb_section et_section_regular et_block_section\"><div class=\"et_pb_row_0 et_pb_row et_block_row\"><div class=\"et_pb_column_0 et_pb_column et_pb_column_4_4 et-last-child et_block_column et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode_passthrough\"><div class=\"et_pb_text_0 et_pb_text et_pb_bg_layout_light et_pb_module et_block_module\"><div class=\"et_pb_text_inner\"><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1560 size-thumbnail alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/gecco.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/plastic-free-schools-power-to-the-pupils-black--150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gecco.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/plastic-free-schools-power-to-the-pupils-black--150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/gecco.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/plastic-free-schools-power-to-the-pupils-black--300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gecco.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/plastic-free-schools-power-to-the-pupils-black-.jpg 324w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>Tops Day Nurseries Havant have recently achieved the <strong>Plastic Free Schools<\/strong> title and are the first early years setting in the UK to do so!<\/p>\n<p>Having already been recognised as one of the South's leading eco-sustainable childcare providers, Tops Havant worked towards five objectives in order to gain their new accreditation, awarded\u00a0 by Surfers against Sewage as part of their innovative education programme.<\/p>\n<p>As the UK\u2019s first plastic free nursery, Tops Havant have pledged to remove at least three single-use plastics in the nursery day, organise at least two \u2018Trash Mobs\u2019 per year and continue to inspire and educate the Tops Day Nurseries family to eliminate single-use plastics from their lives.<\/p>\n<p>As well as organising beach cleans, banishing single-use plastic and writing to top brands to learn more about their packaging waste, Tops Havant also raised the issue to local MP Alan Mak.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Visit Plastic Free Schools at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sas.org.uk\/plastic-free-schools\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.sas.org.uk\/plastic-free-schools<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":1564,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gecco.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gecco.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gecco.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gecco.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gecco.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=680"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gecco.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13718,"href":"https:\/\/gecco.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680\/revisions\/13718"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gecco.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gecco.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gecco.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gecco.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}