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Educational Articles6 July 2021
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
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Consumer / Household tips2 July 2021
Everyone knows that single-use plastic bags are bad for the environment. Single-use anything is bad as we need to reuse, recycle and repurpose things to reduce our impact on the planet. The problem with plastic bags isn’
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Individual and Family28 June 2021
This week we take a look at a household name and something that many of us grew up playing with – namely Lego. Lego blocks originated in the Billund, Denmark, workshop of Ole Kirk Christiansen, who began making wooden to
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Business Tips24 June 2021
Most people nowadays are aware of the damage to the environment drinking water from a single-use plastic bottle does. From the manufacturing process which uses lots of energy and pumps out harmful emissions to the fact t
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Educational Articles22 June 2021
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 f
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Consumer / Household tips17 June 2021
Everyone knows that plastic waste is a big issue, with much of it ending up in landfill pumping out toxic fumes or in the ocean breaking down into dangerous microplastics. But did you know that one of the major contribut
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Consumer / Household tips14 June 2021
Everyone knows that there is a big problem with plastic. Over eight million tons of plastic are dumped into the ocean every year, accounting for over 80% of all marine debris. Once plastic is dumped into the ocean, it re
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Consumer / Household tips10 June 2021
Did you know that a survey in 2019 showed that just over 50% of all UK adults owned a pet? Since lockdown, there has been a 25% rise in dog ownership alone. This means there are upwards of 20.8 million pets in the UK and
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News7 June 2021
We all know that air travel is damaging to our environment – it contributes around 5% of all climate change causing emissions. But did you know, it’s not just aeroplanes, but the actual airports themselves that contribut
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News7 June 2021
Millennials from Berlin, the very heart of the EU, believed in the vision of two Generation X dads from Manchester so much, that they began a collaboration just months after the UK had officially left the EU to help esta
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Business Tips3 June 2021
Did you know that your cleaning habits can have a negative impact on the environment and contribute to climate change? Every year, home cleaning generates more than 29 billion pieces of plastic each year. We all know tha
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News3 June 2021
Thanks to our members Play It Green has now planted close to 5000 new trees in our first two months. Our trees are planted across three sites in North-West Madagascar, an island bigger than the UK that is renowned for ha
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