Weekly Tip 30 - Choose Eco-Friendly Baby Products While plastic bags and straws have received a lot of publicity, single-use baby products such as nappies also have a devastating and wide-reaching impact on the environment. The modern plastic diaper wasn’t developed until the 20th Century. Before, people around the world would use a piece of material, usually cloth, held together by […]
Weekly Tip 29 - Make Your Greens Greener We all know that a great way to reduce our carbon footprint is by cutting down on the amount of meat we eat, but what about our fruit and veg? While animal farming is responsible for 14.5% of greenhouse gas emissions globally, where your food comes from and how it gets to you can […]
Weekly tip 26 – Get a Sustainable Razor Did you know that disposable razors are one of the most wasteful items in the bathroom and because they are made of a variety of materials, including plastic, steel, and rubber, they cannot be recycled? It wasn’t always this way. Razors can be traced all the way back to the Bronze Age. […]
Weekly Tip 24 - Make Your Phone Case Sustainable Did you know that in 2021 over 4.88 billion people have mobile phones? That translates to an incredible 61.85% of the world’s population and is an increase of over 50% in just the five years since 2016. As the population grows and the percentage grows, the problem of waste grows. Phones are built with obsolescence […]
The Humble Bee Did you know that there are approximately 20,000 species of bees on the planet, and they are thought to be the most important insect pollinators? The thousands of bee species all have distinct flight patterns and floral preferences, and many have coevolved with flowers to the point where their body sizes and behaviours almost […]
Weekly Tip 23 - Buy A Reusable Coffee Cup Did you know that your latte to go comes with a significant negative environmental impact? Consider this next time you order a vanilla latte to go: “Every day, we use an estimated 1.6 billion disposable coffee cups, globally”. Single-use cups (along with lids, sleeves, and stir sticks) are frequently made of difficult-to-recycle […]
OVO Pioneers AI Technology To Save Electric Vehicle Drivers Money OVO Energy, the ‘green’ energy supplier is always looking for new ways to help their members be more energy-efficient, reduce their carbon footprint, and lower their bills. That’s why, following the completion of a successful pilot scheme launched earlier this year, it recently announced the national rollout of its flat-rate electric vehicle (EV) charging tariff. […]
How can I be more sustainable? Sustainable Certifications. People often ask how can I be more sustainable? Well, it’s a journey that won’t happen overnight, but Play It Green is here to act as your guide to a better planet. On your journey to a more sustainable future, one of the biggest impacts you can have is to change your buying […]
Weekly Tip 21 - Change Your Toothbrush Let’s remove plaque and plastic from our mouths by moving to a more sustainable toothbrush made from bamboo. Bamboo has anti-fungal, antibacterial, antimicrobial properties making it good for the mouth and it is 100% compostable. Then we get environmental benefits of bamboo due to it being one of the fastest-growing least water-consumptive plants […]
Weekly Tip 20 - Enjoy Some Vegan Food During our long and evolving history, meat has been an integral part of our diet. It has been suggested that meat and the discovery of fire together are directly responsible for stomachs shrinking and brains growing during our evolution to Homo Sapiens. Such is the success of our species that as of writing, […]
What are the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals? You may have heard the words Sustainable Development Goals or SDGs mentioned when talk comes around to sustainability, but do you know what they are and why they were created? The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), sometimes known as the Global Goals, are a set of 17 interconnected global goals aimed at creating a “blueprint […]