Improving our Sustainability at Abingdon
At our playcentre in Abingdon we care about our carbon footprint and have been taking action to improve our sustainability
How we are making a difference
- Bring your own re-usable cup and you can get a 25p discount on any hot drink
- We have a recycling bin for all cardboard waste
- Our coffee and Pepsi cups are collected by Simply Waste for specialist recycling
- We sell Pokito cups and Snakes and Ladders plastic water bottles to promote re-use
- We recycle our cooking oil
- We have replaced our bulbs with LED lights
- We have replaced all our plastic straws with paper straws
- Our bins are labelled to encourage customers to recycle.
- We ensure our serving lights are switched off during quiet periods to reduce electricity
- We have sourced eco-friendly cutlery options
- We support and utilise our local suppliers
- We ensure our party room theme lights are switched off when not in use to save electricity
FUN FACTS
Did you know?
- Plastic can take 100s of years to fully decompose
- The average person living in the UK uses around 200kg of paper every year
- For every tonne of recycled newspaper, 17 trees are saved
- Each UK household produces over 1 tonne of waste per year. This is the weight of a small car
- In less than 2 hours the UK produces enough waste to fill the Albert Hall
