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Plastic-free Kitchen Tips at Home or Restaurants

Plastic-free Kitchen Tips at Home or Restaurants

We’re often asked how it’s possible to do shopping without plastic, whether that’s for your home kitchen or your restaurant/hotel, we would like to share some tips on how to do this. One of the most inspiring restaurants we work with have been plastic free in their...

How to help while you visit Siem Reap…

How to help while you visit Siem Reap…

We recently collaborated with Two Can Travel to write a post for travellers to Siem Reap. It's full of useful tips on what to pack, how to avoid single-use plastic and which restaurants and cafes to support. We've also discovered some other awesome blogs on this...

Plastic Free in Southern Laos by Sarah Rhodes

Plastic Free in Southern Laos by Sarah Rhodes

“Charming by Nature” is possibly the most apt tagline for a place, well, this place. I arrived in Pakse, Southern Laos on the 18th of July to commence a project with the Swisscontact team based in Pakse, to promote refillable water bottles and less plastic pollution...

PFC's passionate intern in Phnom Penh

PFC's passionate intern in Phnom Penh

"I came to Cambodia for 6 months at the beginning of 2018 and I decided to work for Plastic Free Cambodia as their missions make people aware of the incidence of plastic pollution. Indeed, I discovered this beautiful country with great pleasure, but garbage along the...

Helping with the future of PFC

Helping with the future of PFC

The chance to volunteer with PFC was found for me by Accounting for International Development (AfID) who send volunteer accountants all round the world to help organisations that have a strong social purpose. On an AfID placement you are often following up the work of...

Siem Reap takeaway in eco boxes

Siem Reap takeaway in eco boxes

That box can be composted!Inspired by our friends at Kampot Radio, we've put together this list of great places doing takeaway in biodegradable, natural boxes. Be sure that we'll always encourage you first to take your own lunchbox or chan srak, but we all know those...

My experiences with PFC – by "fundrider" Jens Tscheuschner

My experiences with PFC – by "fundrider" Jens Tscheuschner

Everything started when I found out about the Fundriding Tour of the association Kleine Hilfsaktion e.V.. The tour is a guided scooter tour about 1200Km across Cambodia, for every kilometer driven it is necessary to acquire donations which benefits the projects of the...

From Plastic Free Cambodia to Plastic Free Somerset

From Plastic Free Cambodia to Plastic Free Somerset

So, I had been working with a UK waste management/recycling/energy recovery business for 9 years. My fantastic boss retired, the role changed and I became fed up with doing the same type of work. There were redundancies so I took the opportunity, feeling that I had to...

The Story of Plastic Free Cambodia

The Story of Plastic Free Cambodia

How did it all begin…? In June 2014, Sarah Rhodes, an Australia, attended an intensive training program on climate leadership, facilitated by Al Gore, former US Vice President and became part of the Climate Reality Leadership Corps. More inspired than ever and as part...

Case study: Reducing plastic at Victoria Angkor Resort

Plastic Free Case Study The Challenge Siem Reap is experiencing a rapidly growing tourism industry and the affects of that pressure on environment has become apparent. In order to modernise and meet tourist demands, bottled water was one of the first conveniences to...

My Journey with Plastic Free Cambodia (PFC) by Ming Ho

My Journey with Plastic Free Cambodia (PFC) by Ming Ho

Mission to Cambodia Siem Reap, Cambodia. How did I end up here? Over the years, I volunteered in several different parts of the world from Ghana to Kenya to the Dominican Republic, doing school-building projects and microfinance work, and teaching. While I enjoyed...

Soorsdey Kampot!

Soorsdey Kampot!

Faced with concerns about single-use plastic in her guesthouse in Kampot, Fie began to look for solutions. She first contacted PFC to source metal straws to use for their drinks and for visitors to buy. Fie previously worked in the service industry in her native...

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