Fizz Free February

Environmental impact of fizzy drinks

This week of Fizz Free February will focus on the environmental impact of fizzy drinks.

Fizz Free February is important not just for our health but also for the environment. The drinks themselves, the sugar they contain and the plastic bottles and aluminium cans all have an impact on our environment.

Too many plastic bottles end up in landfill or polluting our oceans and although aluminium cans are better, because they can be recycled, they also have an impact.

The sugar in fizzy drinks isn't just bad for your teeth it also has a big environmental impact, especially because it takes a lot of water to create sugar from sugar cane and sugar beet.

We've created a slide set of facts about how soft drinks impact on the environment.

We know that’s not always easy to engage children with this kind of campaign so we’ve created some additional resources to help parents, grandparents, teachers and carers get children involved in going fizz free this month and this week they have an environmental theme, with some maths puzzles for slightly older children.

Find out more information at: Sugar Smart

Page last updated: 10 February 2023

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