Energy Conservation musters its mobiles

During national recycling week EC took part in Planet Ark’s Monday Muster.

We rifled through our drawers to find the old dusty handsets we’d been hoarding, in some cases for years. Once upon a time, these were kept “just in case,” but now, increasingly unlikely to see use again they were e-waste.

The action of collectively doing this together meant that resources could be shared. The result of this was that one lucky phone found new life when someone repurposed it as an emergency phone for their kids!

For the rest, our data was backed up and erased, and our phones reset to factory format before wrapping them individually in bubble wrap and dropping them in the post.

 
 

Now they are off to be disassembled and the materials recovered via Mobile Muster’s certified pathways for the recovery of valuable materials.

Energy Conservation Keeps its Cups

Good taste was the winner this week as Energy Conservation received its very own branded KeepCups. We agreed that carrying a KeepCup signified our intention of the world we want to live in, and decided it was important that we visibly represent those values as an organisation. Plus, disposable cups are rubbish!

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We have also partnered with our local café, Ministry of Coffee to provide a cup library service for our office. Now, in addition to the cups we keep in our office to take down for a coffee, the café keeps a supply of clean cups for our staff to use when purchasing a coffee on their way into work. We keep them supplied with clean cups, and they have benefited from a boost in our custom.

We recognise that the many small acts of using these cups when buying our morning coffee will compound over time, making a worthwhile reduction to our collective waste footprint.
We hope that through our actions, we might inspire others to do the same!

In the words of celebrated cultural anthropologist Margaret Mead: “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world…
indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.”

Energy Conservation goes a fair way

Always willing go the whole nine yards in support of our clients, our energetic team took to the lynx this September for the 2018 golf challenge. With engineers on hand to share their power saving expertise, Energy Conservation made a connection with installers and electricians at the coalface of the industry who otherwise might not be aware of the NSW Energy Savings Scheme. As it turned out, we found we were able to create rewards for golfing efficiency just as we do for energy savings!