Ellen MacArthur and her OC Group have joined with 600 companies in the Eon Energy 100 Days Carbon Clean Up Campaign.  Ellen (pictured) says “reuse and recycle is an important message here in Cowes because it is an Island with limited space for storing waste”.  

Over the coming months Ellen will be learning more about what can be recycled and where the waste goes on the Isle of Wight and elsewhere.

“We are focusing on our staff awareness and behaviour, for example, encouraging people to turn equipment off when it is not being used.”
 
Sailing is an industry which requires almost constant communication within the team, wherever they are in the world, so everyone in the OC Group uses laptops. This is already a great energy saving measure as they use much less energy than a standard PC and monitor.

All staff have been asked to ensure they do not use screen savers because, according to the Carbon Trust, screen savers can use more energy than normal operating applications, such as word processing. Instead, our laptops are set to automatically switch off when not in use for longer than 15 mins.
 
“Our printer room will be the centre of attention as our Sustainability Manager Fiona Campbell is going to set the default to ‘OFF’ on all but the black and white printers which are in constant use! At least we already recycle print cartridges and paper and we are looking at suppliers of recycled paper.”
 
Reuse and recycle is an important message here in Cowes because it is an island with limited space for storing waste, and over the coming months I’ll be learning more about what we can recycle and where our waste goes on the Isle of Wight and elsewhere.”

To Follow Ellens progress Click HERE: Ellen Carbon Clean Up
 
For more information about the 100 Day Challenge, click Eon Energy and click onto the link to the 100 Days of Carbon Clean Up campaign. Click HERE: and HERE: also HERE:

©Island Pulse.

: Thursday : October 11th, 2007 at 11:56 am.