ISLE OF MAN – Microgaming is furthering its investment in sustainability by extending its award-winning PlayItForward CSR programme to include environmental initiatives at ICE.

The leading software supplier has committed to reducing waste across its show-stopping ICE stand at ExCeL London next week by providing extensive recycling facilities, minimising the use of plastic at its bar, and reusing and recycling stand materials following the show.

The initiatives build on existing work carried out at the company’s state-of-the-art Isle of Man headquarters, which was designed with staff in mind and to be as eco-friendly as possible, opening in July 2017 as one of the island’s first offices to have achieved an ‘Excellent’ sustainability rating from BREEAM, the world’s foremost environmental assessment method and rating system for buildings.

Microgaming will continue to reuse more than 75% of its ICE stand structure at future events, and has pledged to recycle its stand graphics and responsibly dispose of other materials at the end of the three-day event.