Sustainability Tip 59: Use Your Dishwasher When people decide to make their kitchens more eco-friendly, they often first think of buying beeswax wrap, silicone sponges, and glass jars. Of course, all of these things will help lower your carbon footprint, but alone they are not enough. You have to change your behaviours too, including how you wash your dishes. […]
World Environment Day: What is it and why should you care? It’s one month till World Environment Day! Taking place every June 5th, the event is led by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and has been held every year since 1974. Now, it is the largest global platform for environmental outreach, with millions of people around the world engaging to protect the planet. […]
Plastic-Eating Bacteria and How They Could Save the World The manufacturing of plastic pollutes our air, and its waste pollutes our environment. In the ocean, microplastic particles may have started to outnumber zooplankton, and we humans are unintentionally eating a credit card’s worth of plastic every week. Solving the issue won’t be easy, but some scientists believe they have found the key: […]
Be Transparent about Sustainability There are many things that get in the way of companies becoming more sustainable, but a major one is the fear that they may unknowingly engage in ‘greenwashing’. With the brand’s reputation on the line, many businesses decide it is safer to simply not take any action at all. This is the wrong move. […]
Sustainability Tip 58: Don't Let Your Food Go To Waste Between 33-50% of all food produced globally is never eaten. Meanwhile, 1 in 9 people around the world go to bed hungry every night. These statistics are as shocking as they are terrible. Clearly, the way we manage our food needs to change, not just for people but for the planet, too. To […]
Member in Focus: The Eco Coffee Company For this week’s Member in Focus, we talked to Kieran Mitchell from The Eco Coffee Company all about being a sustainable business, what that means to them, and how Play it Green has helped them on their journey. To get us started, why don’t you tell us a little bit about The Eco Coffee Company […]
Didsbury Gin Takes Climate Action with Play it Green Didsbury Gin has partnered with Play it Green to drive sustainability within their business, make their workforce Climate Positive, and help them on their journey to Net-Zero. Manchester gin-thusiasts Mark Smallwood and Liam Manton created Didsbury Gin in 2017, and since, the brand has gone from strength to strength. Unlike many other fruit flavoured […]
Earth Month: Invest with Education Earth Month is coming to a close, but the work to invest in our future continues. We want to take a look at one last area that’s essential when it comes to fighting climate change; education. The reasons education is so vital are simple; we need to know, first off, what the problem is […]
Breakthroughs in Solar Energy: 18 Hour Storage and Solar Phones A “radical” new scientific breakthrough in solar energy storage means that solar-powered electronics are one step closer to becoming a part of our everyday lives. In 2017, a group of scientists at the Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden created an energy system that makes it possible to capture and store solar energy for […]
Consumer Attitudes Towards Sustainability and What We Can Learn New research has shown that consumer attitudes towards sustainability have changed. More consumers (64%) are concerned about the environment than they are about their own financial situation (54%), their health (40%), or the health of others (47%). The study by Accenture questioned more than 2,000 UK adults about their shopping habits and how important […]
Bread & Butter Make Their Workforce Climate Positive Bread & Butter have teamed up with Play it Green to repair the planet, make their workforce climate positive, and drive sustainability within their business. Bread & Butter help sustainable retail brands create effective advertising campaigns and websites that align them with their ideal customer to grow their following and increase demand. Through […]