from Groundwork Cheshire

Business set to save £5,000

 

MANY organisations do not realise the substantial savings they could make on their heating bills by ensuring they only use central heating at their premises when they need to.

 

One business that has benefited from analysing its use of central heating is clothing embroidery and printing specialists Touchline Embroidery, based in Warrington , who recently engaged the services of Groundwork Cheshire’s Environmental Business Service to conduct a resource efficiency audit of their premises – with outstanding results.

As a result of Groundwork’s audit the company could save over £5,000 and 28 tonnes of carbondioxide emissions per annum, simply by altering the timer on their central heating system.

Jane Staley, Executive Director of Groundwork Cheshire, said: “The large savings we were able to identify for Touchline Embroidery are a great example of the benefits our free of charge Resource Efficiency audits can provide for businesses.”

Revision of WEEE regulations

 
A GOVERNMENT consultation is currently underway into proposed changes to the European Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) directive which first came into force in January 2007.
 
 
 
The WEEE directive, which affects all Cheshire businesses, requires Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment arising within the  UK to be disposed of in accordance with the regulations.


Greening Your Office

 

GROUNDWORK Cheshire is offering businesses, regardless of size or sector, seven top tips to make their office areas ‘greener’.

 

 
By following seven easy steps, your business can save money by reducing costs and improving environmental performance and use of resources in the office:


Nursery benefits from green audit

 

GROUNDWORK Cheshire ’s environmental business service has been working with Lodge Lane Nursery to help them find an eco-friendly solution to the amount of garden waste it was producing.

 

 

The nursery was keen to find a greener alternative to burning its garden waste and following a Groundwork resource efficiency audit one recommendation made was to invest in a chipper to turn the waste into mulch so it could be reused.  

Meet the Team

Tracey Birch - Resource Efficiency Specialist

Tracey is a vastly experienced Environmental Management Specialist who has worked for two of the UK ’s leading utilities companies in her career before joining Groundwork in 2008.



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Greener company cars could save firms money

 

Businesses in Cheshire could save themselves large sums of money by switching to greener company cars say

Groundwork Cheshire .

Rising fuel prices combined with changes in vehicles tax and excise duty is now pushing more and more businesses to look for savings in their car fleet.

 
 

Companies wise up to changes in economic climate

 

AN increasing number of Cheshire businesses are recognising the economic benefits of ‘going green’ and publicly reporting their carbon emissions, says Groundwork Cheshire.

With climate change becoming an increasingly economic issue, Greville Kelly, from Groundwork, says that businesses are wising up to the genuine business opportunities that measuring, publicly reporting and reducing their greenhouse emissions can bring.

 

 
 

BMS can help reduce your Carbon Footprint

 

WITH the current economic climate forcing Cheshire businesses to reduce their energy costs Groundwork Cheshire is encouraging firms to reap the benefits of a Building Management System (BMS).

A BMS is a Programmable Digital Controller designed to reduce unnecessary use of building services such as heating, cooling, hot water, and lighting.