Current environmental issues - get shredding and recycling

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)

With more and more companies now recognising the environmental and business benefits of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Green-A-Way aims to highlight some of the ways in which organisations can help to minimise their impact on the environment.

Most of us recycle at home, so why doesn’t the same happen in the work place?


Landfill Gas

Wherever biodegradable material is deposited in landfill sites it will generate gas. Under optimum conditions, one tonne of waste can produce up to 200 cubic metres of gas, with methane (about 60%) and carbon dioxide (about 35%) being the major constituents.

Methane is flammable and can be an asphyxiant to humans. It is also a greenhouse gas that is considered to be twenty times more powerful than carbon dioxide.


Statistics

  • The energy saved by recycling 1 aluminium drink can is enough to run a television for three hours.


  • The energy saved from recycling 1 glass bottle is enough to power a lightbulb for four hours.


  • Every steel can is 100% recyclable. It can be recycled over and over again into products like bicycles and of course new cans!


  • Every tonne of paper recycled saves 17 trees


  • For more fascinating facts, please visit our website

    www.green-a-way.co.uk/facts


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    Independent Waste Paper Processors Association
    Waste & Resources Action Programme

    Green-A-Way Limited is a Registered Waste Carrier.
    Registration No. TNE/379835