Celebrate plastic free is easy! Whether you're the host or a guest, you can avoid a lot of plastic waste at parties and celebrate sustainably. Because after beach and garden parties or simply after a barbecue, there is usually a lot of plastic waste left behind. Transfer your plastic free life now also applies to partying. Today you'll get 10 ideas for a plastic-free party that are easy to implement and really not time-consuming. Let's go!
1. plate made of wood & sugar cane or bring it yourself
It really is super easy! Quickly grab the plate from the kitchen and wrap it up. Your party will leave significantly less waste behind. And if your guests don't want to take things to the party themselves, the party can still be sustainable. Either provide a few more plates from your kitchen or offer sustainable disposable plates from Papstar. The plates are made from sugar cane or wood from German forests, for example. Since 121 cubic meters of wood grow back in Germany every year and only 76 cubic meters of wood are felled, the party is sustainable and plastic-free despite the waste produced. Here are two recommendations:
View square plates (20 x 20 cm) from sugar cane*
View round plate (23 cm) from sugar cane*
2. stainless steel & paper straws or omit them altogether.
Does it really look cool to drink from a straw? 😉 If your answer is yes, then you should at least switch from plastic straws to sustainable paper, glass or stainless steel straws for a plastic-free party. Because straws are usually only used once, they create far too much plastic waste. If you need straws for your party at all, here are three recommendations for a plastic-free party with paper, glass or stainless steel straws:
View 5 glass straws with 2 cleaning brushes*
3. offer sustainable party cutlery or snacks that don't require cutlery!
You can make the plastic-free party even more sustainable by either only offering snacks that don't require cutlery (garlic bread, pizza slices, etc.) or offering sustainable cutlery. As with the plates, you can also get plastic-free spoons, forks etc. made from sustainable wood. There are also sustainable bowls for finger food. This means no plastic waste and you can show how easy it is to celebrate sustainably. The following suggestions for your party cutlery:
Get 100 disposable wooden knives now*
View 100 disposable wooden forks here*
The 100 disposable wooden spoons are available here*
View 50 finger food bowls ("boats")*
Stainless steel cutlery set (ideal for outdoor use) View*
4. use reusable stainless steel ice cubes for cocktails!
Stainless steel ice cubes are particularly cool for whiskey drinkers, but are also great for cocktails and the like. Simply place in the freezer compartment. The ice cube alternative is hygienically safe and cools for an extremely long time.
8 Reusable stainless steel ice cubes with tongs View*
5. bring your own mug, drinking bottle, glasses and cups
There are also two options for drinks to make the party as sustainable as possible. If you live sustainably anyway, you always have your drinking bottle with you. So why not simply take your own drinking bottle to the party. As with the plates, I recommend that everyone brings their own cups, mugs etc. to a sustainable party. As a rule, everyone brings something to drink, so why not also bring a mug, cup etc.? If you are providing drinks yourself, a glass drinks dispenser is also really cool to avoid plastic waste! If you don't want to do without disposable cups, you can still ensure a sustainable celebration: Papstar offers beverage cups made of polylactic acid (PLA bio-plastic), which are biodegradable. And the coffee spoon is also available in sustainable birch wood. Stainless steel cups are also a cool plastic-free and reusable alternative!
70 Beverage cups made of PLS (polylactic acid, bioplastic) View*
100 coffee spoons made of birch wood, unbleached and splinter-free View*
Unfortunately, many of the products you recommend are linked to Amazon and are also wrapped in plastic.
Unfortunately, this makes your tips unattractive for me
Hi Manuela,
i'm working on an internal solution with my own store right now 🙂
You can also get many of the products offline in stores.
A nice plastic free party I wish you 😉
Stay clean,
Christoph
Nice article! Compared to before, I already implement much of it and plastic cutlery etc. is consistently avoided.
I also always think it's nice to bring a trash-free snack alternative for everyone to a party e.g. cookies, homemade chips, or the like 🙂
Hi Lisa!
Great attitude, keep it up and show others why it makes sense 🙂
Stay clean,
Christoph
Thank you, that is the goal 🙂
Greetings Lisa
However, all this is not quite sustainable - even disposable solutions made of paper consume raw materials and end up being trash
Hello Sabine!
Exactly, it's better if you can wash everything off and reuse it at the next party.
Many greetings,
Christoph
We use cloth tablecloths. They can be washed and reused. Also white bedclothes (without elastic) are great for beer tables
Hey Lisa! Thanks for your inspiration! That is also still a good idea, since there are of course also tablecloths as disposable products.
Best regards
Christoph