Archive for October, 2007

Reduce the number of cars on the road by 2/3 and save money at the same time

Monday, October 29th, 2007

Do you drive to work on your own? If so you might like to consider car sharing. I see a lot of people driving to and back from work on their own, yet they still complain about the traffic volume and congestion. If reducing C02 emissions isn’t a strong enough reason to try car sharing then maybe reducing the time it takes you to get to and back from work will convince you. Or maybe the money savings?

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Top Floor: Recycling Milk Bottles

Tuesday, October 16th, 2007

Currently we seem to be throwing away empty plastic milk bottles on the top floor. Is that the case for everyone? I suggest that we start to recycle these bottles as plastic is probably one of the worst materials to be chucking in the land fill. We’re probably throwing 8 bottles in the bin a week at an estimate? There’s a good chance other businesses are doing the same thing, to a similar scale. So a quick calculation makes that roughly 400 plastic bottles needlessly thrown away a year, just from the top floor. If there are 100 business doing the same thing in our local area thats 40,000 bottles needlessly thrown away every year.

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