Our Environmental Statement

At Aquaplay Scotland we try to be aware of our social responsibilities to the environment. 

We have installed pv solar panels, producing anything up to 30KW of electricity per day in the summer months.

Working together with groups we try to minimize the number of vehicles we have to use.  Our vans are fitted with extra seats for passengers and the loading capacity is such that we can normally carry all our equipment in one van thereby reducing our fuel usage. We drive carefully respecting other road users and always park our vehicles considerately parking at all of our venues.  We are aware that there are other people using the same areas for different purposes and respect their rights to do so.

We compost green food waste, recycle bottles, glassware, paper and metal.  We try to keep our use of paper down to a minimum with the use of electronic communication wherever possible.

Our new bunkhouse is heavily insulated to well above the required current standards, we have installed an efficient under floor heating and water heater systems fed by our pv solar panels and used highly efficient double glazed window and door to the new extension.

In the early days of Carbon offsetting companies would pay for trees to be planted in the UK to balance their carbon footprint.  Unfortunately the UK Government used these projects as part of their own carbon offsetting.

Recognising that global warming is indeed global the company co2balance explored carbon offsetting in various parts of the world which gave other benefits over and above the carbon offsetting.

In addition to our personal efforts as an environmentally aware company to reduce our Carbon Footprint we are now investing in a project in Kenya to provide efficient cooking stoves which reduce smoke by 50% over an open fire. 

The more efficient cooking methods benefits the users in a number of ways.

• Very much reduces carbon emissions
• Reduces the need for women and children to gather fuel in hostile and dangerous conditions.
• Reduces the amount of smoke inhaled by mainly women and children during the cooking process.

So whilst the carbon emissions are reduced much improved health and safety of the people are a wonderful by product of this project.

Please have a look at the video providing details of this product.