From Local Roots to Coastal Change
We began with a simple observation: the coast we love is being lost to the plastic we carry. Our journey started as a grassroots movement in South Carolina, driven by a shared belief that our future depends on a cleaner, more sustainable present.
The First Coast Initiative was born from that passion. We are dedicated to transitioning our communities to compostable food service items and eliminating coastal plastic pollution. Together, we are building a legacy of environmental stewardship for generations to come.
We work with the composters, restaurants, and converters to offer a vetted, scalable, and approved completed system for single use plastics.
Zero Plastic Pollution Check List
Trial Run
To create a coalition of restaurants and venues that are willing to participate in replacing all single use plastics.
Collaboration
Restaurants and venues would take their budgets from current cutlery purchases and transition to our competitively priced system for a two month trial.
Replicate Successes
Using our success testimonies in our communities to show other willing cities and states the values of our closed loop system to fight against single use plastics.
Convert Current Plastics
Converting adjacent high volume community plastic items, such as trash bags and agricultural film, into our bio based formulas.