Improving our Sustainability at Dunstable
At our playcentre in Dunstable 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 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 increased the amount we recycle, greatly reducing the amount we send to general waste
- Our paper plates are compostable
- We have replaced all our plastic straws with paper straws and our star slush straws are compostable
- We have installed motion sensor lights in areas to reduce electricity used when not in use
- All staff members use re-usable cups
- We are offering a vegan mountain burger which has a smaller carbon foot print
- When possible staff take home coffee grounds to use on their home grown veg or to put into their garden compost bins
- We use wooden tea stirrers as opposed to plastic tea stirrers
- Our bins are labelled to encourage customers to recycle their items
- We often turn off ‘auto receipt’ to reduce the amount of paper used
FUN FACTS
Did you know?
- Plastic can take 100 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