Plastic Free July is a challenge, not a campaign. You sign up, free, and for a month you try to refuse single-use plastic, with weekly tips arriving by email. The Australian charity behind it reports more than 170 million participants in 190 countries. The appeal is that it is time-limited and practical: a month is long enough to change a habit and short enough to attempt.
For diners
The challenge is built around the exact choices covered elsewhere in this section: carrying a cup, refusing a straw, bringing a container, choosing the drink that is not in a plastic bottle. A month of doing that with a directory of restaurants that make it easy is a reasonable way to start.
For food service
The charity's food-service guidance is notable for one thing. It recommends reusables over compostables, plainly, which puts it in agreement with the Surfrider Foundation's foodware guide and with the weighting of PLEET's practices. It also offers printable pledge signs for a counter.
A note on the name
Plastic Free July is a registered trademark, and the charity licenses its name and materials to organisations that run campaigns around it. PLEET describes the challenge here as a matter of fact and is not a licensee. A restaurant that wants to run a Plastic Free July promotion should read the licensing page first.