Carbon Footprint
Question: Carbon footprint of coir, it comes all the way from Sri Lanka?
- Fertile Fibre has not done a complete carbon footprint of its services yet, and is trying to secure funding in this against peat. However, we have asked our shipping company how many litres were used in shipping per tonne from Sri Lanka to UK. When we had this information we were able to ascertain that more fuel was used per tonne in bring the product from the port to factory than was used to ship from Sri Lanka.
How?
- We ship coir that is in a pressed format of 5:1 so a full container 40 foot high cube transports 4400 coir bales weighing 5Kg each. When this is rehydrated it expands to a massive 286000 litres of coir or 4766 x 60 litre bags or 86 pallets.
Everything that we can do to reduce our carbon foot print is done, also reducing in cost.
- Low energy light bulbs
- Machines turned off when not in use
- Redesigned machines to run more efficiently and faster.
- Use of recycled products wherever possible
- Recycle all waste, plastic, paper, ink cartridges etc
- Use as little of everything as possible
- Practice a paper free office, email invoices and trade leaflets, expanded use of internet.
We at Fertile Fibre also recycle when ever possible. Whether it be paper, ink cartridges or plastic. Any thing that is a recyclable product gets recycled.