Carbon Neutral Companies

[Gizmos]

Had something from a company today and thought it would be useful to start a list of all companies that are Carbon Neutral as they have less environmental impact.

My Memory

Also there was a suggestion that we have an eco-friendly sub forum - if we can get enough info together to warrant this we will certainly do it. thanks to Hummer for that idea, although think we may need to change you to a Toyota Prius ;) ;)

[M3chanical_animal]

Giz I love it! And I really love the idea of an Eco friendly sub forum! Would be great for sharing ideas on how to reduce Carbon footprint and recycle :)

[pumpkin]

Have to say, recycling is all very well in principal, and we think we're doing our bit, but I was quite upset about the whole idea after seeing a news item recently about the poor (literally) people in China who have to sift through our plastic waste sorting it to be reused to make plastic toys etc
The whole thing made me feel very uneasy - its not just as simple as putting it in the recycle bin instead of the wheelie bin - its a whole can of worms....

[Maldives]

I just wish my council would do more...... don't get me wrong they are pretty good...... but MIL never had a wheelie bin until a couple of yrs ago, me had one for ten+ yrs..... well no sooner did she get a wheelie bin, but her council have added a couple more for tins, glass and paper etc...... I have two small baskets for glass, tins & paper.... I would love real wheelie bins for recycling..... I am good however and I do take plastics & stuff to the recycle banks, but why can't all councils offer the same.... Mini rant over with....

[M3chanical_animal]

And our waste contractors here have just been secretly filmed throwing recycling (already pre-sorted by householders) into the general rubbish for landfill - people are up in arms here!

Its true Billy - councils all over UK are selling their 'waste' to other countries to avoid landfill - the arguement you need to consider is: it either gets dumped in a landfill site and adds to global warming or someone less fortunate than ourselves (as a result of nothing else but pure time and place effect - either you or me could just have easily ended up in there place - pure luck of the draw) searches through for recyclables that the west 'couldn't be bothered to search for' and not only helps themselves but recycles more than our lazy efforts could manage - which is the lesser of 2 evils.......I know which I prefer.......

[tiger]

I re-cycle as much as I can. I don't have my own re-cycle bins as access isn't easy, but I take things to a lay-by not far away. Everything I take is clean and sorted and I get really annoyed by the state of the bins there. Smelly dog food cans put in with the ones people have washed, broken glass all over the place and general rubbish just dumped, such as old fridges, freezers and TV's etc. Sometimes there is cardboard and polystyrene packing inside the skips with the glass and plastic. No wonder that some of it just goes straight to landfill.

Rant over.:D

By jove, I needed that!:p

[Pearls]

I suspect that the incoming Head at my boys school will want to make the school carbon neutral. Apparently the school he is currently at was the first to do so in the UK.

[Bargainz]

My council have a very halfheated approach. We have a blue box scheme which collects glass every two weeks for 5 years or so. We can put out newspapers in a bag if we like.

My mum's council, 15 miles away, and complete jobsworths in comparison. Householders have to buy 2 regulations bins. The main bin is emptied every fortnight, and the recylcling every week. If it's windy, there are clear bags of recycled paper all over the street, garden etc. In the summer, some waste got compacted in mum's bin, and the bin men refused to do more than the machine's programmed '3 shakes' and left it 1/4 full of crap. If the bin lid doesn't fit tightly, they refuse to take it and stick a sticker on it. Horrible in the summer, and despite being very careful (putting leftover meat in the freezer until bin day), she has had maggots - yuck.

How can it be such extremes?

[M3chanical_animal]

M & S have just announced they want to be one of the first Carbon Neutral supermarkets - they are going to ensure all of their packaging is either bio-degradable or recyclable and have no waste!

HSBC / First Direct is also going to be one of the first banks in the UK to reach its Carbon Neutral target for sometime in 2009 I believe.