Reducing our Carbon Footprint

Aug 20, 2023

Tree Planting Certificate - Sustainability here at ABC Service

As part of our mission here we look at reducing down or offsetting our carbon emissions, waste etc.

As part of a course I attended it made me realise how much we already do and therefore wanted to share this with you as it may give you some ideas.

1 – Energy Provider

Here at ABC Service we have focused around using a company who can provide us with 100% renewable energy, we chose Octopus! CLICK HERE

2 – Print Media

We Carbon Capture all of our print media through our paper supplier who have a deal with the woodland trust, this means we help to maintain woodland here in the UK and also to plant new trees! For more about Carbon Capture CLICK HERE

3 – Paper Waste

Any off-cuts we have we package up and sell as Arts and Crafts supplies for kids, this is supplied to The Toy Cupboard at 70 West Street here in Tavistock, Devon. CLICK HERE

4 – Packaging

All of our packaging is recycled and when we say recycled we don’t mean we have bought in recycled boxes etc….we literally get local businesses to drop us their empty product boxes, maybe they have had a delivery of goods and they have a clean box left, rather than taking it to the local dump we use that for dispatching goods in ourselves! Quite literally recycled!

5 – Lighting / Heating

We are in the process of changing all of our lighting to energy ef􀀺cient lighting i.e. LED and our heating we do through heating systems which are A or A+ appliances.

6 – Transport

With regards to callouts, we are currently investing in Electric Bikes so for callouts in the local and surrounding area we are not using cars or vans thereby cutting fuel emissions.

7 – Shopping Local

Yes, you probably keep seeing everyone banging on about it but shopping local quite literally helps to reduce carbon footprint, especially if you can walk to places for shopping etc.

To read more about our Sustainability please check out our Sustainability web page

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