

The Clean Planet Foundation operates as an independent entity, separate from Clean Planet Group, Energy, and Technologies. While the Foundation aligns its mission with promoting the sustainable use of plastics and reducing carbon emissions, it maintains complete autonomy in its decision-making processes and actions, ensuring no influence from the commercial customers or shareholder interests of its related companies.
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The Clean Planet Foundation (CPF) educates and takes action for the sustainable use of plastics, and reduction of carbon emissions. A not-for-profit organisation.
We believe that everyone deserves better, and initiate and support projects to mitigate the impact of the plastic and climate crises across the UK and beyond.
flagship projects
Clean Planet Peninsula
The Clean Planet Foundation, polar explorer & Guinness World Record holder Preet Chandi, and the University of Portsmouth: Revolution Plastics Institute, are leading the Clean Planet Peninsula project to provide early-career scientists with fieldwork experience and undertake scientific research about the impact of microplastics on Polar Regions.
The initiative offers cost-effective training, remote fieldwork camps, and expeditions, focusing on plastic pollution and climate change impacts. The project aims to empower the next generation of polar scientists to tackle urgent environmental challenges and contribute to global conservation efforts.
Last update: April 2026
Next update: October 2026


The Clean Planet Foundation has partnered with Wakehurst, Kew’s wild botanic garden, to launch the Clean Planet Tent—a new outdoor classroom designed to expand nature-based education. Welcoming over 12,000 school children in 2024, Wakehurst will now be able to host an additional 1,000 students each year, offering extra weekly sessions from Early Years to A Level.
This Flagship project also includes the extended partnership with Wakehurst to provide funding to support offer of Nature Connectedness teacher training.
Last update: October 2025
Next update: July 2026
“Edutainment at its finest—exciting, funny, and impossible to put down!” - Chris Riches, Daily Express
Ellie doesn’t believe in magic, she believes in science.
But science is magic! Ellie Ment and the Material Matter is a STEM-based adventure where chemistry meets chaos, physics bends reality, and curiosity might just save the world. A STEM based book series for middle-grade and beyond.
Next update: June 2026
Next update: July 2026



Tree Seed Collection
A collaborative endeavour with Woodland Trust Scotland and Trees for Life, the Clean Planet Foundation are the largest private backer of the project.focuses on the critical task of collecting and verifying seeds for at least one million trees.
As of the November 2024 update, this project’s mission has already been smashed, with over two million seeds collected – and we still have two years to go!
Last update: May 2026
Next update: May 2026

HAPSIE
A monthly comic book series to support a younger audience in engaging with bettering the environment. HAPSIE is for budding eco-warriors.
Over 200 comic stories released online for free. Join thousands of subscribers in receiving the printed monthly comic and annual hardback. HAPSIE is now read all over the world, and young and old alike enjoy the stories, games and activities- helping everyone understand the importance of protecting our nature.
Next update: Updated Monthly!



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Behind The Trees
The Clean Planet Foundation released a feature documentary that celebrated – and delved deeper into – some of the work undertaken at charity, Trees For Life, with partiular focus on their Dundreggan site.
The purpose of the documentary was to raise awareness of the charity and the importance of its work. The results exceeded all expectations, winning over ten film festival awards, including at the Cannes World Film Festival.
Completed: November 2024
Key Updates
(including non-flagship projects)

August 2026
New data from Amazon shows that The Clean Planet Foundation's Ellie Ment recorded enough digital reading and audiobook listening to cover every one of those minutes.

June 2026
The Independent Publisher Book Awards described the Ellie Ment Series as having “outstanding quality and creativity, remarkable contribution to independent publishing"

June 2026
The netball shirts are produced from five post-consumer recycled PET plastic bottles for every garment made.

May 2026
From those seeds, the project now represents the potential to grow more than 6.3 million native trees across Scotland.

April 2026
BAS will provide scientific advice and guidance to help ensure the project aligns with recognised polar scientific standards.

March 2026
Vicky Holmes has been named as the developmental and copy editor on Ellie Ment

February 2026
Svalbard’s glaciers, polar deserts, and unpredictable conditions provided an ideal training ground for structured learning.

December 2025
The oldest and most recognised national awards platform in America devoted entirely to children’s literature.

November 2025
Read the coverage featured in The Sun and many other national newspapers, plus the video trailer!

October 2025
New partnership expands research-led sessions helping educators boost wellbeing and environmental action in schools

September 2025
The book is currently ranked among the Top 50 of all Children’s Books across the entire USA.

August 2025
The Clean Planet Tent will enable another 1,000 students to be educated at RBG Kew's wild botanic garden.

July 2025
“𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘢 𝘣𝘢𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘵𝘸𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘦𝘥𝘶𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘧𝘶𝘯 𝘢𝘴 𝘪𝘵 𝘩𝘰𝘰𝘬𝘴 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘌𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘦’𝘴 𝘲𝘶𝘪𝘳𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘢𝘥𝘷𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦𝘴.”

July 2025
The Clean Planet Foundation launch the first in a series of STEM-based fantasy novels, Ellie Ment and the Material Matter.

June 2025
Experience what life is like in the Arctic Circle as the Clean Planet Peninsula team take you through the key elements of their training!

May 2025
The significant number of seeds provides the potential to grow over 3.5 million native trees across Scotland.

February 2024
Participant Call! Peninsula
After a successful pilot year in 2023 as featured on the BBC, the Clean Planet Peninsula project is set to embark on an ambitious and visionary 3-year journey. The Clean Planet Foundation invites 25 individuals to join our immersive training course in Aug'24.

September 2023
Clean Planet's Hydrogen Racing team reach world finals!
Clean Planet Foundation supported the Prague British International School to compete in the H2 Grand Prix, run by Horizon Educational - a global competition where students build hydrogen-powered RC cars and compete in a 4-hour endurance race

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foundation leadership

Bertie Stephens
CEO, foundation

Katerina Garyfalou
COO, foundation

Adel Louertatani
Senior Partnerships Advisor






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