Having your cake and not eating it – the problem of food waste! “A whopping 24 million slices of bread get thrown in home bins every day in the UK.” – The Guardian. It makes you stop and think, doesn’t it? Here are some more thought-provoking facts about food waste. In the UK, 38.7 per cent of all lettuce and 25.5 per cent of all […]
Does Your Money Have a Footprint? When you consider your impact on the environment, what comes to mind first? Is it the flights you take? Or road trips in your car? Or maybe it’s the food you eat? Have you thought about your money? Money isn’t the first thing that comes to mind when you think about the climate emergency. […]
United Nations Environment Findings Support Play It Green Methods When Play It Green was set up, the founders chose to focus on reforestation, using natures own carbon storage machines, trees, rather than other ways of offsetting. This decision has recently been supported by a report from the United Nations Environment. At a time when biodiversity loss has been overshadowed by climate change, […]
What is a Circular Economy? We all know the world has a waste problem, from plastic waste filling the seas to clothing and electronic waste that ends up in landfill. This is because, since the early to mid 20th century, our economic system has been based on a ‘linear economy’. A linear economy such as we have now […]
Earth Day 2021 Did you know that Earth Day is a celebration held every year on April 22 to show support for environmental conservation? It began in 1970 and has since grown to encompass a diverse variety of activities organised annually by EARTHDAY.ORG, involving over a billion people across 193 countries. At a UNESCO Conference in San Francisco in […]
Support people like Justin with Play It Green When you join Play It Green, you help people like Justin build a better way of life for their families and for themselves. Justin has seven children and many more grandchildren living in Androhibe, Madagascar. Justin used to be a rice farmer and charcoal maker until he began working with Eden Reforestation Project. He once had to cut […]
Play It Green Joins Forces with The Eden Project to restore the planet Play It Green Joins Forces with The Eden Project to restore the planet In October 2020, Play It Green’s very own CEO, Chris Thair signed a partnership agreement with The Eden Project, one of the worlds largest reforestation and environmental restoration projects in the world. With an aim of planting 500,000,000 trees per year by […]
What will holidays look like in the future? During the Covid pandemic, much of the world was in lockdown and the future of the tourism industry is in jeopardy. No one has been able to predict how the global epidemic will change our lives so much when we enter 2020. The freedom of travel has been reduced for most of the year and […]