17/06/2009
Simple ways to save the planet
Nowadays you can’t open a newspaper or turn on the television without people talking about climate change or the environment. Governments have woken up to the fact that we need to protect what we have, and one of the ways in which both companies and households can do this is by looking at how we dispose of our waste.
Each year in the UK we generate about 100 millions of tonnes of waste from households, commerce and industry combined and the effect of this can be devastating! With so much at stake companies now need to have a genuine environmental policy at the heart of their organisation.
I see myself as custodian of this concept and believe that it is also crucial to the survival and growth of the environmental products marketplace. One small environmentally friendly idea can build a business and help restore a sustainable planet too! At Remarkable our first product – the ‘remarkable’ pencil – started life as a plastic drinks cup. Now we’ve diversified and create notebooks from plastic bottle packaging, a pencil case from recycled tyres and even pens made from a Sony play station.
We as a company are still excited by genuine eco-friendly product solutions and keep our minds open to new ways of waste recycling. We’ve even used old cooking oil from KFC to generate power to run the factory! So, take a look around your business today - chances are that you too have a waste product which can be turned into something that your company and the rest of the world can use again!
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