The Green Event Planner

Covid 19 saw the return of single-use plastic items and as a sustainable event manager, I am obviously not impressed. The reasons why venues and restaurants rekindled their love affair with plastic are aplenty: it’s is perceived to be more hygienic, there’s less touching involved and it’s cheaper. #PlasticFreeJuly gives us the perfect opportunity to look at what’s really going on here. Spoiler alert: it’s not the germs per se. It’s Covid 19 hospitality guidelines! Let me expl

Every gripping story needs a villain and when it comes to climate change, plastic is a strong contender. Climate debates can get sciency and abstract rather quickly. Carbon footprint is mostly invisible, charts of rising temperatures are rather dull and disaster only seem to happen in places most of us have never been to. It's easy to shrug these things off as mere "theories", but plastic pollution is different. It stares us in the face the minute we walk out of the house or