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Service side -
Our business specialises in energy reduction consultancy and solutions within IT. It's estimated that on average 425kWh is wasted within the office environment per employee per annum. Our business identifies, reports on and then eliminates this waste. If everyone in the UK adopted our solutions we would save around £700 million and 3.3 million tonnes of CO2. This is before we change any ways of working. And because our solutions are inexpensive with a return within a couple of years we hope that business wont have an excuse not to use us.
"green" side
We are almost paperless and what little we do use is printed on 100% recycled paper care of Ray. We have got rid of one of the cars and now try and take public transport wherever possible. We hope to reduce our CO2 by 10 tonnes per annum just by doing this. We have even cut out the school run by cycling. Energy wise we practice what we preach and are in the process of reducing consumption by 30% even though we have brought the office into our home.
Waste wise we have halved our rubbish due to a change in shopping habits and the addition of a compost heap. We are just waiting for a green cone to be delivered for the stuff that cant go in compost bin. All tins, plastic, paper and card gets recycled although we are working hard to minimise that as well.
We are just investigating rainwater harvesting as this is the next project followed by solar heating and then PV - both of which depend on the governments long overdue scheme which should be announced next year. (see the consultation paper published last Thursday)
Overall I think a "green" business always needs to be looking at ways to improve.
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