Greening Up Demos
A Zero Carbon/Zero Waste workplace?
We're committed to being an environmentally-friendly organisation. With all the travel we're doing, it's not going to be easy. We want to share our experiences and efforts at going green on this page - with the ultimate aim of becoming a zero carbon/zero waste workplace.
- Office Composting - The Reality We've had our Bokashi Composter in the office for almost a fortnight now, and (whilst not wanting to tempt fate) I've been very impressed with the results. It takes nearly all types of food waste (though admittedly this office only seems to produce coffee grinds and tea bags, with the odd citrus rind thrown in when staff feel their vitamin intake is lacking) - but most importantly, doesn't smell. We have to drain liquid off it using its nifty little tap every few days, but even that is of... continue reading 21st August 2006 Comments (1)
- Our Carbon Footprint As promised a while back on the Greening Up Demos page of the website, we've attempted to work out how many tonnes of CO2 our flights in 2006 will produce. continue reading 7th August 2006 Comments (2)
- More Green Ideas Just seen an email from colleagues at City and Guilds which ends, not with the usual legal guff but with a useful line which says 'stop, do you really need to print this email'. A simple reminder that we are getting through a mountain of paper in this office and that anything we can do to slow down our paper burn rate would be good. continue reading on 25th July 2006 Comments (1)
- Recyclebank I’ve just come across what looks like a brilliant recycling scheme in the US. It’s called RecycleBank and it works like this:1. Each house gets a recycling container with a barcode on it, that allows the recycling truck to identify what your household in recycling 2. The amount your home recycles is translated into RecycleBank Dollars (paid for by the council through the savings they make on landfill sites) 3. You can spend your RecycleBank dollars at any of the 100 participating... continue reading on 10th July 2006 Comments (1)