Sustainable Times Issue 9 The vast majority of businesses say that sustainability is vital to their future prosperity, but almost half say that margins are currently lower on sustainable products and services, according to an international survey of 250 senior executives by Accenture.

1. SUMMER 2012
ECOSYS
Still unique after 20 years
Why Kyocera Document Solutions’
flagship printing technology is more
relevant today than ever
Plus:
How to grow your own
Kyocera Green Curtain (see page 8)
INSIDE...
The Green Deal
What you need to know
Closed Loop Recycling
Are you ready for CRC
Phase II?
Mars Drinks’ path to
sustainability

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3. SUMMER 2012
Comment
Not many Government initiatives win broad support from
business, especially not those that impose extra red tape.
Even so we shouldn’t be surprised by the positive reaction to
proposed mandatory carbon reporting for companies listed
on the London Stock Exchange. Many large businesses already
calculate carbon emissions and even those that don’t must
surely recognise the value in measuring, monitoring and
controlling emissions. In addition to the financial advantages
of doing so, there is growing recognition that sustainability has
clear commercial benefits (see story to right).
James Goulding, Editor
CONTENTS
03 Green
Agenda
12 Cover Story
Kyocera celebrates the 20th
anniversary of ECOSYS
technology
20 Green
Products
ur
O
selection
of new
products
and
services
22 Electric cars
Demand remains low, but
shortcomings are being
addressed
24 Catering
Vending
Mars Drinks’ path to
sustainability
15 Energy management
How Capgemini is monitoring
energy use to reduce its
carbon footprint.
16 Recycling
Banner Business Supplies wins
a National Recycling Award
for its Closed Loop paper
recycling system
18 Managed Print
Services
How Defra and Logica have
slashed carbon emissions from
their printer fleets
greenAgenda
Sustainability vital for future growth
say three out of four businesses
The vast majority of businesses
say that sustainability is vital to
their future prosperity, but almost
half say that margins are currently
lower on sustainable products and
services, according to an international
survey of 250 senior executives by
Accenture.
Four out of 10 respondents (44%)
believe that sustainability is critical to
their business, with 78% considering it
vital for their future growth.
Commercial considerations are
the main motivation for investing
in sustainability: 62% say their
sustainable investments are driven by
customer expectations for sustainable
products and services and 60% by the
opportunity to drive growth. Only 41%
of those surveyed are motivated by
regulatory compliance and just 29% by
the need to reduce energy and material
costs.
When asked if their sustainable
investments were to aid growth or
improve efficiency and cut costs, almost
twice as many pointed to growth over
efficiencies (41% to 22%).
Although the vast majority (83%)
of respondents see spending on
sustainability as an investment rather
than a cost, 56% believe it is more
expensive to be a sustainable business
and 49% say margins are lower on
sustainable products and services.
This could be because almost half
the respondents (47%) think consumers
are reluctant to pay more for sustainable
products and services, compared to 25%
who believe they are willing to pay a
premium.
Even so, 60% admit to charging
premiums. Two thirds of those that do
claim they can charge 5-20% extra and
17% impose premiums of 20-50%.
Despite charging higher prices, over
one third (37%) of businesses surveyed
say they cannot keep up with customer
demand for sustainable products and
services.
When asked what actions they have
taken to respond to rising demand,
44% claimed to have promoted existing
sustainability credentials; 43% have
launched new products and services; and
41% have checked their supply chain
credentials.
www.accenture.com
26 The Green
Deal
What you need to
know about The
Green Deal
28 CRC
Are you ready for Phase 2
of the Carbon Reduction
Commitment?
29 Green Marketing
What’s wrong with making
a profit?, asks
Steve Hewson
Editor: James Goulding
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Chlorine Free (ECF) pulp, which is sourced from sustainable, properly managed
forestation.
Trend Controls, the UK market leader in Building Energy Management Systems (BEMS),
is making energy management simpler and more accessible with the launch of new
touch-screen displays that give building occupants instant access to live information
on energy use. Trend Controls claims that 50% or more of the energy consumed within
a building is directly influenced by occupants and that by clearly showing the effect
of actions, such as opening windows, adjusting thermostats or turning on the heating,
publicly located IQView8 displays can reinforce energy-efficient behaviour.
www.trendcontrols.com
Erratum: Our feature on Purple Gossip in the last issue of Sustainable Times (Spring
2012, page 18) incorrectly stated that the company collects used mobile phones in
exchange for cash or a charitable donation. In fact, this is the role of its sister company
The Recycling Factory. Purple Gossip only refurbishes and sells used phones. Many
apologies for any confusion or inconvenience that this might have caused.
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4. greenAgenda
Five minute mobile
call same as boiling
one cup of water
Mobile operators make
progress towards 2020
energy efficiency targets
The mobile communications industry is making strong
progress towards its goal of reducing greenhouse gas
(GHG) emissions per connection by 40% by 2020, the
GSMA claims in a new study.
An update to 2009’s Mobile’s Green Manifesto report
shows that although total network energy consumption went
up slightly between 2009 and 2010, energy consumed per
unit of traffic fell by 20%, with energy per connection down
by 5%.
Gabriel Solomon, GSMA’s Head of Regulatory Policy,
said: “This is the first ever detailed global estimate of mobile
network energy consumption and carbon dioxide equivalent
(CO2e) emissions and it shows that the mobile industry is
making progress in reducing its own emissions and energy
costs, as well as those in other industry sectors.”
He added that through machine-to-machine (M2M)
connections, mobile communications can contribute to a
reduction of total emissions that is at least four to five times
greater than its own carbon footprint.
Mobile M2M connections in smart grids, smart meters
and fleet management are forecast to grow by 30-40%
annually, reaching approximately 100 million connections
worldwide by 2015, resulting in possible GHG savings of 18
Mt CO2e, the equivalent of taking 4 million cars off the road.
The report uses data and analysis from the GSMA’s Mobile
Energy Efficiency Benchmarking (MEE) service to calculate
energy costs and CO2e emissions resulting from electricity
and diesel consumed by mobile networks globally.
The GSMA states that if all networks with above average
energy consumption achieve the industry average, mobile
operators can look forward to energy cost savings of $1
billion per annum at 2010 prices; matching the efficiency of
the top 25% could save over $2 billion annually.
www.gsma.com/publicpolicy/mobiles-green-manifesto
Enclosing base stations and antennae
in a sleek construction, Ericsson’s Tower
Tube combines an attractive design with
improved energy efficiency and reduced
operator costs
Making a 5 minute mobile phone call
is the carbon-equivalent of boiling
enough water to make one cup of tea
(250ml), according to analysis by O2.
In an industry first, the mobile
network operator used Footprint
Expert to calculate the greenhouse gas
emissions embedded in the lifecycle of
its voice and data services and had the
results independently verified by the
Carbon Trust.
O2’s research shows that making a
one minute voice call on the O2 network
has a carbon footprint of 3.6g CO2e,
while transferring one megabyte of data
generates 11g CO2e.
O2’s initiative supports its three-year
sustainability plan, Think Big Blueprint,
which by 2015 aims to deliver carbon
benefits to customers that are ten times
greater than the carbon footprint of its
network. www.02.com
What a waste
Computers, TVs and other electrical
products plugged in but not in use
or left on standby cost the UK up to
£1.3 billion in electricity bills every
year, equivalent to £85 per household,
according to a new study by the
Department for Environment, Food and
Rural Affairs (Defra), the Department
of Energy and Climate Change (DECC),
and the Energy Saving Trust. The report,
Powering the nation – household
electricity-using habits, found that
UK households are consuming more
electricity and watching 10 billion
hours more TV than previously thought.
Smartphones a challenge
to green credentials
The growing popularity of smartphones poses
a real challenge to vendors’ green credentials,
Juniper Research warns in a new study. The Green
Handset Tablet report estimates that supply
chain activities associated with smartphones –
raw material extraction, component
manufacturing, device assembly
and transportation – result in twice
as many GHG emissions as other
types of handset. This matters because
the number of smartphones shipped per
annum is set to nearly double over the
next five years. On a positive note, the report
points out that by targeting the largest sources
within the supply chain, notably component
manufacturing, the smartphone industry could save
30 million tonnes in Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions
over the next five years.
Hot and cold
TelecityGroup, Europe’s leading
provider of premium carrier-neutral
datacentres, is using naturally stored
groundwater to help cool its facility
in Amsterdam. Exploiting the city’s
natural geography, the Southeast AMS
5 datacentre uses Aquifer Thermal
Energy Storage (ATES) technology
to improve the efficiency of its
cooling capabilities. Water stored
in underground wells is warmed by
waste heat from the data centre in
the summer and cooled by lower
external temperatures in the winter.
Alexandra Schless, managing director
of TelecityGroup Netherlands,
said: “While ATES systems are used
widely across the Netherlands, the
technology has never been rolled out
before on such a large data centre
project.”
Challenging: the Nokia 900 smartphone
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5. Charity calls for old and
unwanted PCs
Computer Aid International is calling on UK schools,
colleges and universities to donate used computer
equipment for re-use in schools across Africa and Latin
America when they upgrade their systems over the
summer holidays.
The UK-registered charity is the largest not-for-profit
provider of computers to the developing world. Since 1998, it
has provided more than 200,000 computers and laptops for use
in education, agriculture and health in over 100 countries.
Anja ffrench, Computer Aid director of communications,
said: “The cycle of poverty and disadvantage cannot be broken
unless poor countries have the technology and skills-base
to develop their economies. By donating computers and
monitors to Computer Aid, organisations can make a significant
contribution to poverty reduction by helping children in
developing countries learn valuable IT skills which are essential
to their country’s development.”
Computer Aid provides a full and secure decommissioning
service, so donors can be confident that their equipment is
securely data wiped and compliant with WEEE legislation.
Each PC, monitor and laptop donated to Computer Aid is
asset tracked enabling businesses to see exactly which school,
university or project is benefiting from their unwanted PCs.
Each PC refurbished by Computer Aid will last for a
minimum of 3 years and provide up to 6,000 hours of ICT
access. This will give up to 60 students the opportunity to
achieve a vocational level of IT literacy.
www.computeraid.org
Editor’s Choice Award
Sustainable
Interface
Interface to convert discarded fishing
nets into carpet tiles
Carpet tile manufacturer Interface and
the Zoological Society of London (ZSL)
have formed a partnership to tackle
the problem of discarded fishing nets
in some of the world’s poorest coastal
communities.
The Net-Works partnership, which
launches with a six-month pilot on
Danajon Bank in the Philippines, aims
to establish a community-based supply
chain for discarded nets that will improve
the livelihood of local fishermen and
provide Interface with a new source of
recycled material for its carpet tiles.
Fishing nets made from different
types of nylon – often the same
nylon used to make carpet yarn – are
frequently discarded on beaches or in
the sea where they can last for centuries,
continuing to catch or injure marine life
and pollute beaches. In Danajon Bank, it
is estimated that the nets discarded in a
year could cover the length of the Bank
400 times over.
Explaining Interface’s involvement
in the project, chief innovation officer
Nigel Stansfield said: “Our Mission Zero
goal is to eliminate our negative impact
on the Earth by 2020, and phasing out
our reliance on virgin raw materials is a
big part of this. Partnering with ZSL and
other experts, our objective is to convert
‘waste’ from the environment – in this
case, discarded fishing nets – into raw
materials for our own manufacturing.”
He added: “What’s really special is
that at the same time we are aiming
to create livelihood opportunities for
some of the world’s poorest, coastal
communities.”
Recycling investment pays off for Totalpost
Equipment being sorted for despatch to Chile
HP opens Scottish recycling
and renewal centre
HP has opened a vendor-neutral technology recycling and
refurbishment centre in Erskine, Scotland. Owned and
operated by IT leasing subsidiary HP Financial Services,
the new centre will enable HP’s commercial customers
to recycle old equipment at the end of a lease period or
during an upgrade refresh cycle and, where appropriate,
acquire second-hand HP products. The 8,400 square
metre facility significantly expands HP’s global asset
management and recycling capability, which includes
reconditioning, testing and certifying assets back to
original manufacturing standards before resale.
www.hp.com/hpfinancialservices
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Totalpost is enjoying the fruits of a
£100,000 investment in its franking
cartridge refilling business with a big
increase in the number of cartridges
recycled at its factory in Alston,
Cumbria.
According to compliance manager
Bruce Lenton, Totalpost has already
remanufactured more than 25,000 franker
ink cartridges this year.
“This is likely to be a record year for
the number of cartridges that we recycle
which is great news for Totalpost, for the
environment and for our value-focused
customers,” he said.
“Over the years we have saved
hundreds of thousands of used cartridges
from UK landfill sites, acquiring them from
other providers and through the returns
policy we operate on all of the cartridges
that we distribute. Cartridges pose a real
problem on landfill sites because they are
made up of so many different elements,
including plastic, hard plastic pcb circuit
boards and copper within the print heads.”
More than 95% of the cartridges
recovered by Totalpost are recycled. Used
cartridges go through a cleaning and
testing process to ensure they are fit for
re-use and are then filled with new ink and
sold for less than a new cartridge.
www.totalpost.com
greenAgenda…
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6. greenAgenda
Now is the time for
LED street lighting
White LED street lighting is good
for public safety and good for public
finances, according to the results of an
independent trial in 12 of the world’s
largest cities. The two and a half
year LightSavers trial found that LED
lighting produced energy savings of up
to 85%, whilst improving visibility and
making residents feel safer.
The Climate Group report, Lighting
the Clean Revolution: The Rise of LED
Street Lighting and What it Means for
Cities, also found that LED lighting was
more durable, with a failure rate of 1%
over 6,000 hours, compared to around
10% for conventional lighting.
The Climate Group is now calling on
Governments to make a rapid transition
to low carbon lighting. Lighting is
responsible for 19% of global electricity
use and 6% of global greenhouse gas
São Sebastião Cathedral in
Rio de Janeiro illuminated by
Philips LED lighting
emissions (source: Light’s Labour’s Lost
(2006), OECD/IEA).
www.TheCleanRevolution.org/
lighting-the-clean-revolution
Light bulb moment
Panasonic is racking up design awards for its retro-look
LED light bulbs. Following Golds in the 2011 Good Design
Award in Japan and the 2012 iF Product Design Award in
Germany, it has now won a Gold Award in the Industrial
Designers Society of America-sponsored International
Design Excellence Awards 2012. Panasonic claims that its
20W and 40W equivalent LED bulbs provide virtually the
same light colour, brightness and
light distribution as conventional
Editor’s Choice Award
clear incandescent light bulbs,
while consuming up to 84%
less energy and lasting as much
Panasonic
as 40 times longer.
Sustainable
Route optimiser software
saves time and money
Hampshire Tile Warehouse has cut its fuel bills by 10%
and saved an hour a day by adopting Postcode Anywhere’s
route-optimisation technology.
Route Optimiser is a web-based service for commercial
vehicles that uses route planning algorithms to calculate
shorter, more efficient routes for travelling salespeople,
couriers and delivery vehicles. No downloads are required and
the service works on a pay-as-you-go basis, with no contracts
or hidden fees.
Simon Bond, IT Manager at Hampshire Tile Warehouse
trialled the system on just one delivery vehicle and was
impressed by its affordability, ease of use and effectiveness.
He said: “Postcode Anywhere’s Route Optimiser services
seemed a fraction of the price of other route optimiser
software. Looking at the various competitor products on the
market we would have certainly incurred other set-up costs
when integrating them into our legacy system that could have
been quite substantial.”
He added: “Route Optimiser is a perfect fit for our future
strategic plans. It didn’t involve major, expensive deployment.
It simply integrated into our legacy system, at the touch of
a button. All provided templates have been really easy to use
and so compatible with our infrastructure. In fact it seems to
intuitively mirror our own system, which is great.”
Bond now plans to roll the technology out to the entire
fleet, eliminating the need to plot delivery routes manually.
“The drivers trialling it have been really impressed as we
simply hand them a daily optimised route delivery schedule
and away they go. The service is completely user-friendly,
which means that no one has to adapt to any major changes
when the service is rolled out fleet-wide,” he said.
“The benefits of using the service during the trial period
have already been significant in saving fuel and time. We’ve
saved an hour per day and cut diesel consumption by over
10% when trialling it with one vehicle. Just imagine how much
we will save when we
adopt it fleet-wide!”
www.routeoptimiser.com
Ikea to fund tree
planting
Ikea is extending its three-year relationship
with the Woodland Trust for a further two
years, during which time it hopes to raise
an additional £1 million for the charity’s
‘Trees for the Community’ scheme, which
aims to plant 1 million trees by the end
of 2013. Half the money will come from
customers who will be invited to donate
the value of a tree (£1) at store checkouts
and half from Ikea’s ‘Foot of Forest in your
local community’ campaign. Under the
scheme, Ikea family members can activate
a contribution from IKEA with every
swipe of their membership card. IKEA
has donated £1.3 million pounds to the
Woodland Trust since 2008.
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Heroes wanted
The Energy Saving Trust is calling for entries to its 2012 Fleet Hero Awards. Now in their seventh year, the
awards honour public and private organisations in England that are successfully reducing fuel bills and lowering
carbon footprints through better transport policies and more efficient use of their fleets, as well as companies
that supply money- and fuel-saving products or services. The awards are free to enter: all that’s required is a
250-word entry outlining why your organisation should win. The deadline is August 17, 2012. Find out more at
http://www.energysavingtrust.org.uk/england/Transport/Business/Fleet-Hero-Awards.
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7. advertorial
Go green:
the evolving world
of OKI printing technology
Alan McLeish, Senior Product Marketing Manager, OKI discusses the development of its
latest printing technology, which is helping SMEs to streamline operation costs and be
more responsible for the environment
Given the current economic climate
SMEs need to be evaluating and
streamlining operations wherever
possible to ensure a smooth running
and efficient business. One of the key
aspects of this will inevitably be a
tighter focus on cost control, and one
of the most effective ways in which
small businesses can achieve this is
by adopting a smarter approach to
business printing – going green.
OKI is one such global business-tobusiness brand dedicated to creating
cost effective, professional in-house
printing solutions, which has recognised
the need to ensure printing is as green as
possible. OKI has a policy of continuous
improvement on green issues – where
it is constantly striving to reduce the
environmental impact of every OKI
product from its manufacture, to its
running costs and recycling. Between the
year 2000 and the present day, OKI has
embarked upon an impressive period of
innovation, launching a diverse array of
improved products and its latest
product range is no exception.
Two years ago OKI introduced
‘Deep Sleep’ mode – a setting that
“
SMEs are steadily migrating towards
greener printing solutions and OKI is perfectly
equipped to meet this need
www.binfo.co.uk
reduces power consumption to the barest
minimum (often less than 1 watt) yet the
machine is still able to ‘wake up’ quickly
when a new job is needed – and today
this is standard on all new ranges. In
fact, many devices, particularly in a small
office, spend long periods of time not
being used so it is important to ensure
they consume the minimum amount
of energy when they are in standby to
maximise efficiency.
Taking green IT to the next level and
getting ahead of all the latest industry
regulations, OKI is now building ‘AutoPower Off’ technology into many devices,
saving hundreds of watts of power and
reducing CO2 emissions to the minimum.
The setting automatically powers down
the printer after extended periods of nonusage, which can be determined by the
user and, this in turn, delivers big savings
in power usage over the product’s life.
Among OKI’s new range of products,
the C800 series includes added green
benefits. Not only does it have Deep
Sleep and Auto-Power Off settings, but
it also features a new engine design
with advanced cooling technology and a
low operating noise. It can also print its
first page out in 9 seconds. With a small
footprint, the C800 series is a giant leap
forward in business printing – it’s fast,
affordable, green and professional.
Used correctly, SMEs can also receive
further benefits by setting printers up
appropriately. Devices can be set to print
in mono as standard, allowing SMEs
to reduce unnecessary colour printing,
while enabling them to use colour when
required. In addition, duplex (doublesided) printing capability is increasingly
seen as a standard requirement for
devices. OKI print devices can also be
set up to print double-sided, as a default
option, allowing SMEs to make further
cost savings while cutting paper wastage
by up to 50 per cent.
In fact, OKI doesn’t just help reduce
the carbon footprint of a business’s
printing activities, it also offers managed
printing services (MPS) and provides
advice, help and training on waste
reduction, expert disposal of redundant
equipment and a national programme for
recycling used consumables.
Driven by a combination of industry
legislation, a focus on value for money
and a desire to improve environmental
credentials, SMEs are steadily migrating
towards greener printing solutions and
OKI is perfectly equipped to meet this
need. OKI is a pioneer in this space and
its MPS and new product ranges enable
smarter, greener printing, simply by
reducing power usage and saving on
unnecessary printing; all benefits that will
ultimately streamline operation costs and
help SMEs become more responsible for
the environment.
www.oki.co.uk
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8. greenAgenda
Kyocera plants more green curtains as
part of energy conservation plan
As Japan imposes regional energy
reduction targets of 5-15%
following the shutdown of its
nuclear reactors after the March
2011 earthquake, Kyocera is
installing ‘green curtains’ on 28 of
its factories and office buildings, a
30% increase on the year before.
Kyocera first introduced ‘green
curtains’ in 2007 to shield windows
and outer walls from direct sunlight,
reducing indoor temperatures and
the need for air-conditioning during
hot summer months. Typically, they
consist of morning glory and edible
bitter gourd grown over trellises or
netting.
Green curtains are just one of
the energy conservation measures
being employed by Kyocera. As you
would expect from a manufacturer
of solar panels, the Group also has
approximately 2-megawatts of solar
power generating systems installed
at 18 company facilities in Japan,
producing enough energy to power
480 average households.
Other recommended practices that
can be implemented in any company
are to:
n et the thermostat to 82 degrees
S
Fahrenheit during work hours
and relax the dress code to allow
employees to work in comfort;
n se a digital, programmable
U
thermostat and automate ideal
settings for different times of day;
n nstall automatic door-closers
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throughout the workplace including
exterior and interior freight doors
as well as walk-in refrigerators and
freezers;
n Maintain ventilation systems with
regular filter replacement and duct
cleanings;
n Insulate water heaters and supply
pipes;
n Install blinds and reflective film on
windows to decrease solar gain;
n urn off all unnecessary lights and
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install motion-activated sensors for
lighting in stairways, hallways and
other places that aren’t in constant
use;
n Replace old fluorescent lights with
new, energy-efficient models; use
compact fluorescent instead of
incandescent bulbs, as they consume
75% less electricity and will last 10
times as long; and install LED exit
signs;
n Shorten the interval before
employee computer monitors
automatically go to sleep or ‘power
down’ mode;
n Use laptops where possible, as they
use up to 90% less energy than a
desktop computer;
n Shut down and unplug all computers
at the end of the work day.
Green to the core
Sustainability lies at the heart of the new £21 million home of
Essex Business School on the University of Essex’s Colchester
Campus.
Designed by BDP and due to be completed in 2014, the building
incorporates a range of sustainable design features including a
covered winter garden that will support the three-storey building’s
passive ventilation and heating system; a 50kW Ground Source
Heat Pump (GSHP) that will heat offices and at the same time cool
server rooms and the main lecture theatre; and photovoltaic panels
on the roof that are expected to offset more than 20% of the
building’s carbon emissions.
Other energy-saving features include the use of natural
ventilation wherever possible; maximum use of daylight within
buildings; smart meters integrated with the Building Management
System (BMS); lighting controls and high efficiency fittings; highefficiency variable speed pumps and ventilation fans; rainwater
harvesting; and high levels of insulation to assist heat conservation
in the winter and prevent unwanted heat gain in the summer.
In addition, the building can accommodate a Combined Heat
and Power (CHP) system as part of a future strategic energy
management plan for the wider University site.
www.essex.ac.uk/ebs
To find out more about Kyocera’s
green curtains, including step-by-step
instructions on how to construct and
grow your own, visit http://global.
kyocera.com/ecology/greencurtains.
Lyreco to make UK HQ zero landfill
Having already met its target to recycle 90% of all waste
generated at its 500-person Telford HQ, office supplies
company Lyreco has set a new goal to make the site a zero
landfill operation by the end of the year.
In order to achieve this, it is partnering with Harper Adams
Energy Limited (HAEL) in Newport, Shropshire. Part of Harper Adams
University College, HAEL collects food waste from Lyreco’s canteen
and feeds it into an Anaerobic Digestion (AD) plant that produces
energy for the agricultural college and an organic fertiliser for use on
its fields.
In the first two months of the scheme, Lyreco diverted just under
one tonne of food waste from landfill. It is now expanding recycling
services to include food waste produced outside the canteen.
The Harper Adams AD plant, constructed from a government fund,
began generating power in 2011. It is expected to produce carbon
equivalent savings of around 12,000 tonnes p.a., 3.4 times more than
emissions from campus buildings.
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9. advertorial
Duplo Launch
Fastback™ Thermal Binders
Duplo International have become
the official UK distributor for the
Fastback™ range of desktop binding
machines. The simple table-top
machines bind loose sheets into
presentable documents using
thermally activated binding strips.
The technology is 3.5 times faster than
a conventional punch and bind system,
documents lay completely flat, are
suitable for posting and at the end of
their useful life the bound documents
are fully recyclable.
Duplo will be stocking a
comprehensive range of binding strips
made of different materials and 16 eyecatching colours. In addition, customers
can order strips branded with their own
graphics, images and logos to make their
documents really stand out.
For clients looking to add durability
and real prestige to their documents, the
Fastback machines can even produce
paperback books. With a small further
investment it is even possible to create
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library-style hardcover books with a
unique cover of your own choosing.
This is ideal for corporate business
proposals or quotations.
Angela Osborne, Sales Manager at
Duplo added, “The major advantage of
this technology is versatility – with a
Fastback machine you can produce all
your internal and external documents
and present them in an appropriate
way. People are amazed when they see
everything the machine can do and are
even more stunned that it takes less than
30 seconds to bind, even with documents
running into hundreds of pages.”
Duplo will be showing the Fastback
range at the Office* Show on 12-13
September at Olympia in London.
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10. greenAgenda
New forum to measure carbon Free support helps
Zebedee’s slash
impact of consumer goods
carbon footprint
WRAP is bringing together
80 retailers, suppliers,
environmental charities,
academics and government
bodies to work together to
reduce the environmental
impact of everyday
consumer goods, from dairy
products and DIY materials
to soft drinks and tinned
groceries, that collectively
are responsible for 30%
of global greenhouse gas
emissions.
The Product Sustainability
Retail focus: Dr Liz Goodwin Forum (PSF) will measure the
lifetime impact of products across a range of sustainability
targets (e.g. carbon, water, use of raw materials, energy and
waste) and identify how to make them more environmentally
friendly.
According to WRAP, on average for every tonne of products
we consume, 10 tonnes of fuel and materials have been used,
rising to 100 tonnes if we include water.
WRAP chief executive Dr Liz Goodwin, who is chairing the
new forum, said: “The scale of the challenge is enormous. For
example, the British Retail Consortium estimates that the retail
sector alone accounts for around 3.5% of the UK’s carbon
emissions, and the retail supply chain for more than 30%.”
She added: “Many companies already measure the
environmental impact of their products but until now this has
always been done in isolation and the methodology and results
have not been shared. By working together we have a real
opportunity to minimise the effect our activities have on the
planet.”
The PSF is currently identifying grocery and DIY products
that have the most potential for improved environmental
performance. The next step will be the publication of a report
outlining an action plan.
www.wrap.org.uk/psf
East Sussex catering company
Zebedee’s Lunch Box has made savings
worth thousands of pounds by taking
advantage of free advice and services
provided by Low Carbon Essentials, an
EU-funded project designed to help
businesses in the South-East reduce
waste, cut energy bills and shrink their
carbon footprint.
Funded by the European Regional
Development Fund (until December
2012) and delivered by a consortium of
partners in the South East led by business
development company BSK-CiC, Low
Carbon Essentials is open to businesses
based in the South East Euro Region
(excluding London) that have fewer than
250 employees and a turnover of less than
€50 million.
Its range of free services includes
advice, networking events, feasibility
studies and energy audits.
After consulting Low Carbon Essentials,
Zebedee’s Lunch Box, which provides a
‘meals on wheels’ service for the childcare
and education sectors, implemented a
number of green initiatives that have
helped it reduce energy consumption and
even generate revenue by selling on the
250 kilos of cardboard waste it produces
each week.
These include a £750 investment on a
tin crusher and cardboard baler that had an
ROI of six months; an air-water heat pump
that heats water by extracting excess heat
from the kitchen and then circulates cool
air to make the working environment more
comfortable (saving more than £5,000 per
year); and energy efficient light bulbs and
motion sensors in the toilets and stock
rooms (saving £1,500 per year).
08457 226655
www.lowcarbonessentials.co.uk
Mandatory carbon reporting for UK
The UK has become the first country to
make it compulsory for companies to include
emissions data for their entire organisation in
annual reports.
Under plans announced by the Deputy Prime
Minister Nick Clegg, all businesses listed on the
Main Market of the London Stock Exchange will
have to report their greenhouse gas emissions
starting next financial year.
The new regulations will be introduced from April 2013 and will be reviewed in 2015,
before ministers decide whether to extend the approach to all large companies from 2016.
Emissions reporting is seen as an important first step for companies in their quest to
reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Nick Clegg said: “British companies need to reduce their
harmful emissions for the benefit of the planet, but many back our plans because being
energy efficient makes good business sense too. It saves companies money on energy bills,
improves their reputation with customers and helps them manage their long-term costs.”
The UK is committed to cutting UK carbon emissions to 50% of 1990 levels by 2025.
http://www.defra.gov.uk/environment/economy/business-efficiency/reporting/.
WRAP loan fund to support new business ideas
WRAP has extended the support
packages it provides businesses,
local authorities and third sector
organisations looking to prevent
waste or increase re-use and
repair capacity across England.
One element is the £1.5 million
Waste Prevention Loan Fund,
which offers loans of between
£100,000 and £1 million to
businesses wanting to develop new
opportunities that prevent waste or
use less product to deliver a service.
Examples of the sort of
initiatives supported include
changing from product sales to
service delivery (e.g. leasing) or
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creating customer incentives to
return products for re-manufacture,
re-use or recycling.
To qualify, solutions to waste
issues must be proven but require
finance to scale up to a commercial
level. WRAP is particularly interested
in the re-use and repair of textiles,
electrical items and furniture, but
will consider plans for any material
stream.
In addition to loans, WRAP
can provide grants for equipment;
business development support
e.g. marketing and financial
planning; and can help identify
finance partners that might
have a better understanding of
new business opportunities than
traditional sources of funding.
Matthew Broadbent, Head of
Financial Mechanisms at WRAP,
said: “Finding smart ways to prevent
waste arising in the first place and
then to re-use or repair what is
created makes pure business sense.
We know there are lots of creative
ideas out there so we’re looking
for opportunities to scale these up
to really make a bigger difference,
driving green growth further and
faster.”
www.wrap.org.uk/content/wplf
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11. Brownfield sites
made for wind
Arjowiggins takes out exactly
what it puts in
As more businesses launch closed loop recycling initiatives,
Arjowiggins Graphic has made a commitment to use enough
UK waste paper at its Greenfield mill in France to cover the
recycled pulp content of UK sales of Cocoon 100%, Cocoon
50%, Maine Gloss Green and Satimat Green. Agnes Roger,
president of Arjowiggins Graphic, said: “As 15-25% of the
waste paper used in the entire production process at our
Greenfield mill is already sourced from the UK, it was a
natural step for us to guarantee to our customers that for
all the recycled content of our papers sold in the UK we are
sourcing its waste paper equivalent volume from the UK.”
www.recycled-papers.co.uk
Friends of the Earth and green energy
company Ecotricity are urging British
businesses to build wind turbines on
brownfield sites to power their own
operations and cut energy costs by more
than one third.
They claim that supplying wind power
directly on-site and bypassing the grid – a
concept known as Merchant Wind Power
– can drive down electricity costs by up to
35%, ensure long-term security of supply,
reduce carbon emissions and make good
use of industrialised brownfield land.
Citing research from Renewables UK,
they point out that while only one in
four wind farm proposals on greenfield
sites receive planning approval from local
authorities, 95% of wind projects on
industrial land get approved.
Even so, by the end of May, just 41 UK
industrial sites either had erected, or had
planning permission to erect, wind turbines
to power their operations directly.
One company that has is Bristol Port,
which erected three Ecotricity wind turbines
five years ago. Since then, the turbines
have produced 72.2 Gwh of electricity
(the equivalent of powering 3,661 average
homes annually), 55.5 Gwh of which
has been used by Bristol Port, with the
remainder spilling onto the grid.
The initiative has reduced the Port’s
energy bill by thousands of pounds and
cut its carbon emissions by almost 24,000
tonnes of CO2.
Ecotricity founder Dale Vince said:
“Ecotricity pioneered Merchant wind-power
ten years ago: we take on the cost and the
risk of building the wind turbine, while the
merchant customer simply provides the
land and gets smaller energy bills and a
smaller carbon footprint.”
How broadband services cut carbon emissions
Working for the common good
The Forum of Private Business has published its 200th
‘Referendum’ survey on business sustainability to
coincide with the launch of Trading for Good, a new
initiative that celebrates the good work small businesses
do in their communities.
Operated by Excell Group, it enables businesses to set up
a profile page at www.tradingforgood.co.uk where they can
publicise their charity or community work; environmental
action; schemes to help young people into work; how they
improve supplier relations; and also how they make life better
for staff.
The FPB’s survey underlines the extent to which the
business community already contributes to the ‘big society’,
with 52% donating to charities; 46% supporting charitable
events; 46% supporting other small, local firms wherever
possible; and 40% taking on work experience placements from
local schools and colleges.
In addition, 40% encourage employees to continue
learning and 32% help staff to improve their health and
wellbeing.
Less popular measures include giving employees time off
to support good causes (17%); fulfilling local leadership roles
(15%); providing work for unemployed people (14%); and
mentoring (12%). Just 3% offer or encourage payroll giving.
www.fpb.org
www.binfo.co.uk
Increased use of simple online activities like teleworking and online shopping can cut
carbon emissions by millions of metric tons and deliver significant energy savings,
according to a report issued today by the Global e-Sustainability Initiative (GeSI) with
the support of BT, Deutsche Telekom, Ericsson and Verizon.
Measuring the Energy Reduction Impact of Selected Broadband-Enabled Activities Within
Households studied eight household activities that are made possible or enhanced by the
use of broadband and found that using the internet instead of conventional methods could
achieve net energy savings equivalent to 2% of national energy consumption.
The activities analysed were telecommuting; using the Internet as a news source; online
banking; e-commerce; downloading and/or streaming music and video; e-education; digital
photography; and e-mail.
John A. Laitner, director of economic and social analysis for the American Council for an
Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE), said: “The total savings at first might seem small, but that
is only because the eight activities we studied are a relatively small part of their respective
economies. Even at this scale, these relatively small activities may generate a larger benefit,
equal to the total carbon dioxide emissions impact of the ICT industry.”
Telecommuting provided the largest energy benefit in the six countries assessed (the US,
France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the U.K), generating 83-86% of net energy savings. The
areas with the least savings were online news and e-education, as consumers are likely to
continue old practices, such as reading a newspaper, while
adopting new broadband-enabled activities.
GeSI’s study of household activities
follows its SMART2020 study (2008),
which found that large-scale,
systems-enabled broadband and
information and communication
technologies could deliver
a 15% reduction in global
greenhouse gas emissions.
www.gesi.org
Online shopping is one
of several ways broadbandenabled activities help cut carbon emissions
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12. cover story
ECOSYS
– still unique after 20 years
This year Kyocera Document Solutions
celebrates the 20th anniversary of its ECOSYS
sustainable printing technology. Twenty years
on, sustainability, green technology and cost
control have become business imperatives and
ECOSYS is arguably more relevant today than it
was in 1992.
Graham Cox, sales director of Kyocera
Document Solutions UK Limited,
believes that in the current climate
sustainability and value for money are
vital for sustained market impact.
“In the past four to five years people
have become more interested in total
cost of ownership and the environment,”
he said. “We have become more
discerning of how we spend our money
both privately and on a corporate level.
Everyone expects value for money and
looks at cost holistically now. We are
also all more conscious of the effect that
technology has on our environment.”
Environmental sustainability has
ECOSYS
stands for
Economy,
Ecology
System
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been one of the underlying principles
of Kyocera Corporation’s corporate
philosophy since its foundation in
1959. The development of sustainable
printers satisfies the company’s goal
to reduce humanity’s impact on the
planet and sits alongside its other
environmental achievements such as
the production of commercially viable
photo-voltaic (PV) cells.
In 1986, Kyocera Document Solutions’
parent company Kyocera Corporation
stated that ‘The environment will
become an important consideration
from now on.’ Since then, it has created
a range of products with a long lifespan
and very low operating costs.
In 1992 the Kyoto Protocol was
five years away from being agreed
and 13 years away from coming into
force. Yet Kyocera was already shipping
the first ECOSYS sustainable printer,
the FS-1500. As the first printer to be
designed and manufactured with longlife components, the FS-1500 aimed
to reduce the cost and environmental
impact of office printing.
Long-lasting components
Kyocera’s heritage in ceramic
technology is fundamental to the low
waste design of ECOSYS printers. The
long-life components used are many
times more durable than traditional
alternatives meaning that in most cases
Kyocera printers will last longer than
competitor models.
At the heart of ECOSYS sustainable
technology is a hard-wearing amorphous
silicon (aSi) drum developed by Kyocera
Document Solutions to last for the life of
ECONOMY:
ECOLOGY:
Optimised workflow efficiency
Minimised environmental impact
Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)
is the true lifetime cost of a
printer as operating expenses can
significantly exceed the original
purchase price. ECOSYS devices are
designed to minimise both direct
costs, such as consumables, and
indirect costs, such as energy usage
and administration, invariably
offering the lowest possible TCO.
Kyocera’s long-life technology
utilises its extensive expertise
in ceramics. The durable drum is
integral to the printer; the only
consumable is the toner cartridge.
ECOSYS printers consume fewer
materials in manufacture, generate
less waste and simplify recycling,
so minimising environmental
impact.
a printer. The combination of amorphous
silicon and a positive-charged single
layer photoconductor drum (PSLP) has
enabled Kyocera Document Solutions
to develop drums that last significantly
longer than a conventional negativecharged layer OPC drum.
The drums in ECOSYS devices are
guaranteed to last for two years or
500,000 pages, whichever comes sooner.
In a heavy use environment, the imaging
system of the printer can be replaced
after the warranty has expired by using
a maintenance kit. This lets you renew
the device without the inconvenience of
buying a new printer.
Less waste
An ECOSYS printer is unique because
toner is its only consumable. When
the toner runs out, all you need to
replace is the actual toner cartridge.
The ‘toner’ cartridges that go into nonKyocera printers often contain far more
than toner; some have more than 60
separate parts. The low-waste design
of ECOSYS printers means that 85%
less waste is produced during the life
of the printer. Additionally, the simpler,
smaller and lighter toner boxes have
a lower transport footprint than more
complex alternatives.
In January 2009, Kyocera Document
Solutions enhanced ECOSYS by
launching a new toner with uniform
and smooth particles that deliver finer
definition and higher clarity, reducing
toner consumption by 30%.
Since then, it has continued to
refine its long-life, energy-saving
designs, achieving a remarkable
reduction in TEC (Typical Energy
Consumption) values and CO2
emissions, compared to conventional
printers. It has also improved the
operating noise of its printers, making
them five decibels quieter, and reduced
the time it takes the printer to recover
from standby and start printing.
SYSTEM:
Effortless system integration
Kyocera’s ECOSYS devices offer
a wide range of enhancements
designed to maximise document
output productivity and Kyocera
Document Solutions’ integrated
system software ensures long-term
and cross-network compatibility.
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Low running costs
The benefits of ECOSYS go beyond
sustainability. Because a Kyocera toner
cartridge is simple and economical
to produce, users of Kyocera printers
have benefited from 20 years of
exceptionally low printing costs.
Kyocera has consistently emphasised
the importance of a printer’s Total Cost
of Ownership (TCO), as lifetime toner
costs can be many times higher than a
printer’s purchase price.
Conventional printer cartridges
contain around 60 components,
compared to five in a Kyocera toner
cartridge. Multiply these by the 20
cartridges that a business might
get through in a printer’s lifetime
and the environmental benefits of
ECOSYS become obvious. With just
one consumable to replace, ECOSYS
printers require very little user
intervention, especially in comparison
to printers with separate drums,
developer units and toner cartridges.
As a result, they are extremely robust
and reliable and offer organisations
of every size across the public, private
and third sectors a very impressive and
competitive TCO.
The unique benefits of the ECOSYS
sustainable printing technology enable
businesses to reduce the environmental
impact of office printing, offer excellent
print quality and, most importantly
in the current economic climate, save
money.
For further information visit
www.kyoceradocumentsolutions.co.uk
“
The low-waste
design of
ECOSYS printers
means that 85%
less waste is
produced during
the life of the
printer
Kyocera Document Solutions is keen
to support its channel partners in
their sustainability efforts and in
2011 launched its Green Partner
programme. The programme
aims to provide customers with
assurance that the environmentally
responsible ECOSYS printers they
specify are also supplied and
serviced by a company with strong
environmental credentials.
Tracey Rawling Church, Director
of Brand and Reputation at Kyocera
Document Solutions, commented:
“Only five Kyocera partners have
achieved this demanding accreditation.
We were the first vendor to introduce
a green partner programme to educate
our partners about how to make
their business more sustainable and
we offer two levels of accreditation,
Green Partner and Green Partner Plus.
Green Partner Plus rewards those who
have invested significantly in greening
their business; it’s challenging and
to achieve it takes real commitment
and dedication in every aspect of
sustainability within the business.”
The Green Partner Programme
is open only to suppliers of Kyocera
Document Solutions and includes an
audit of 50 elements of sustainable
operations. Ten of these are mandatory
and of the remaining 40, minimum
scores apply for each of the two
standards of accreditation. A fast-track
element avoids the need for partners
that have already achieved recognised
national or global sustainability
accreditations to undergo a full audit
that would only duplicate work already
completed.
At the other end of the spectrum, a
Green Partner Guide provides support
and guidance for those who are just
beginning to make their business more
sustainable.
Mark Wilkinson, Operations
Director of Kellys, the fifth Kyocera
Document Solutions partner to be
awarded Green Partner Plus status,
said: “We have worked exclusively with
Kyocera for thirty years and we put
huge value on providing a complete
Kyocera solution to our customers.
In our experience, Kyocera’s ECOSYS
sustainable print technology has been
paramount for our customers.”
“As a business we are very
committed to sustainability and we
felt that this was an important and
valuable accreditation to achieve.
Green Partner Plus is a key selling
point for both our existing clients and
prospects. We were ahead of the curve
with managed print solutions, which
we’ve been offering for over 10 years
now, and we believe that sustainability
and the savings it delivers will be a
real driving force for businesses over
the next decade. We look forward to
growing our business in conjunction
with Kyocera Document Solutions and
will continue to deliver the first class
customer service we’re known for.”
Kyocera Document Solutions is
supported by a unique corporate
philosophy incorporating a
commitment to excellence, the
environment and individual fulfilment.
The synergy between a highly
trained and motivated workforce, the
company’s philosophical heritage and
unique technology continues to deliver
tangible benefits to customers around
the world.
ECOSYS toner
cassettes
have just five
components
compared to
more than
60 in some
other printer
cartridges.
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14. advertorial
Hungry for an Education
Toshiba TEC joins forces with customers to
build new cookhouses in African schools
For more information call us on
01932 580135
or visit: www.toshibatec.co.uk
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Toshiba TEC UK Imaging Systems has
further demonstrated its commitment
to environmental responsibility
by helping its clients contribute to
schemes that will provide much
needed food preparation facilities for
two schools in Kenya.
Some of Toshiba TEC’s managed
services customers are already able to
lower their carbon footprints by using
multifunction products (MFPs) that form
part of Toshiba TEC’s pioneering Carbon
Zero scheme. This industry leading
initiative ensures that any CO2 produced
during the manufacture and supply of its
MFPs is entirely offset through a range
of initiatives coordinated by co2balance,
the leading global carbon management
company.
‘As well as taking our own corporate
social responsibilities (CSR) seriously we
do all we can to help our partners and
customers fulfil their objectives in this
area,’ stated Jeremy Spencer, Toshiba
TEC’s marketing director. ‘In order to
extend our environmental leadership and
complement Carbon Zero, we were able
to provide our customers with CSR based
opportunities that will improve the lives
of those in some of the world’s poorest
regions.’
Toshiba has chosen to support an
initiative that builds food preparation and
cooking facilities in Kenyan schools, the
first two being Buguta Primary School in
Taita-Taveta District, north of Mombasa,
and Muhaka Secondary School in
Msambweni District of the Coast Province.
Buguta Primary School has around
1,000 pupils and despite its high head
count the overall academic performance
of its students is very impressive. Most
of the pupils come from surrounding
villages, often up to 10km away, and
having to walk to and from school every
weekday is a significant challenge. The
previous food preparation facilities on site
were extremely basic and some pupils
went home for lunch and did not return.
Teaching staff also discovered that some
of the pupils even went without food
once at home.
To positively address this issue parents,
together with the Buguta Primary School
committee, came up with the idea of a
feeding programme, which necessitated
the building of a new school cookhouse.
Work is now underway and when it is
fully operational it will help keep pupils in
school during lunchtime, thereby ensuring
that they get the best education possible.
The facilities will also be environmentally
friendly as they will reduce the amount
of firewood used for cooking, with the
additional benefits of lowering the time
spent collecting fuel and saving trees.
Furthermore, it will reduce the overall
cost of the feeding programme, which will
have a positive impact on the number of
children that can be taught.
Faced with similar problems, Muhaka
Secondary School is also set to benefit
from new cooking facilities. As a relatively
new facility it is the only secondary
school within a 5km radius and has a
population of 35 students – a figure that
is likely to triple in the next academic
year. Therefore, ensuring its pupils are
able to receive adequate sustenance
during the school day is of paramount
importance both in terms of keeping
them on the premises and providing a
decent standard of nutrition.
Although the cost of food is
incorporated into the students’ fee
structure, funds were not available to
support the construction of a muchneeded cookhouse and stoves. However,
thanks to the Toshiba project a new food
preparation facility is being constructed
that will ensure that the feeding
programme is a success, and it will also
have the potential to serve the local
primary school. In addition, the school has
initiated a home growing food scheme
that will allow it to become completely
self-sufficient in the provision of basic
foodstuffs such as maize and beans.
Toshiba TEC’s Jeremy Spencer,
concluded, ‘The benefits that Buguta
Primary School and Muhaka Secondary
School will experience from the scheme
cannot be overstated, and we are proud
to have played a part in making it happen.
Environmental initiatives and CSR
programmes continue to be of significant
interest to all businesses and we look
forward to helping our other clients
achieve similar objectives.’
01732 759725

15. Building Management Systems
Monitor and control
How a building management system from Trend Controls
is helping Capgemini meet energy reduction targets.
Headquartered in Paris and with
operations in 40 countries and
115,000 staff, Capgemini is one of
the world’s largest management
consulting, outsourcing, technology
and professional services companies.
It has an enviable track record in
creating and delivering business and
technology solutions for blue chip
organisations and in 2010 achieved
revenues of €8.7bn.
Capgemini takes its environmental
and corporate social responsibilities
seriously and has implemented a range
of measures to minimise its carbon
footprint. As well as being certified to
EMAS and ISO 14001, it has set a target
of achieving a 20% energy reduction
from 2008 levels by 2014.
In January 2011, as part of this
programme, the company appointed
Craig Hall as its UK energy efficiency
manager.
Hall said: “Capgemini Group spends
in the region of €40m a year on utilities
and 70% of our electricity usage is linked
to our data centres, in which we host our
clients’ IT equipment. One of my first
tasks when joining the company was to
devise a strategy that would reduce the
amount of energy consumed within the
14 Capgemini locations in the UK.”
Although the company already had
a building management system (BMS)
in place, it relied heavily on human
interaction to ensure that energy use
was being correctly controlled. Also, with
no monitoring facility available, it was
very difficult to see exactly how much
energy was being used.
www.binfo.co.uk
Hall quickly realised he needed a
tool that could monitor and diagnose
energy usage patterns and called in Trend
Controls to discuss how it could help
achieve these objectives. “I’ve worked
with Trend in the past,” he explained,
“and consider them to be the market
leader in building energy management
systems (BEMS). After our initial
meeting, it was clear that Trend Energy
Manager would help facilitate enhanced
interaction and achieve better results.”
Monitoring energy use
Trend Energy Manager is a softwarebased system that can be used to
monitor energy use within a building.
Energy and facilities managers (FMs)
can use it to keep a close eye on the
gas and electricity consumed by their
building services and the effect that has
on their carbon footprint. It captures
data from meter readings and other
Trend BEMS variables that are logged
and automatically uploaded, enabling it
to provide rapid reporting of incidences
of energy overuse or issues with plant
monitored by Trend. It can even be
configured to suggest probable causes
that FMs can then act upon.
It is a highly flexible solution that can
be scaled to suit a range of applications,
from relatively small single buildings to
large campuses and dispersed estates. As
a web-based package, it can be accessed
by authorised users from virtually
any location, via the Internet or an
organisation’s Intranet.
To better understand how energy is
being used in Capgemini’s UK buildings,
Craig Hall, Capgemini
(left), Derek Brooks,
Trend Controls (right)
“
It is a highly
flexible solution
that can be
scaled to suit
a range of
applications...
Hall and his team input a variety of
information, such as utility tariffs,
CO2 factor and cost and consumption
targets, into their Trend Energy Manager.
Normalisation criteria are also specified
to allow comparisons between different
areas within a building or different
buildings, or to benchmark consumption
against specific targets. Degree day data is
also called up and entered to compensate
for differences in weather conditions
when comparing current energy
consumption with that of a previous year.
Capgemini’s team of internal FMs
now use the data supplied by Trend
Energy Manager to understand and react
to the real-time energy profile of their
buildings. This data can be manipulated
and combined in a variety of ways and
is presented in easy-to-understand
graphical and tabular formats.
Hall says he is particularly impressed
by the system’s ease of use: “In order
to fully engage our FMs with what we
are trying to do, the system needs to
be accessible and easy to understand.
Trend Energy Manager achieves this and
navigation between screen pages is very
straightforward, as is drilling down into
the detail or displaying an overall view.
For example, we can look at a graph
of minimum, average and maximum
electricity usage in a particular area over
a given period, or view a report showing
the total energy consumption, cost and
CO2 emissions for every building on the
estate,” he said.
Capgemini’s UK energy reduction
strategy is already seeing success, with
an impressive year-on-year energy
reduction of 16.7% – equating to
£250,000 in savings.
Summing up, Hall said: “I’m delighted
with what we have achieved so far and
we will strive to better this during 2012.
The Trend Energy Manager plays a key
role in our efforts to reduce energy
consumption and brings our entire
energy reduction agenda to life.”
01403 211888
marketing@trendcontrols.com
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16. Closed Loop Recycling
Keeping up with HMRC in
the recycled paper loop
Fresh from his success at the National Recycling Awards 2012, where
Banner Business Services was named Recycling and Waste Management
Business of the Year, MD Richard Costin explains why closed loop
recycling makes sense for private as well as public sector organisations.
It may surprise you to learn that
Central Government consumes enough
office paper to fill around forty
40-tonne trucks every week. That’s
some 73,000 tonnes each year.
You may also be surprised to hear that
HMRC, which is responsible for one tenth
of this huge paper mountain, is involved
in a ground breaking initiative that
achieves several important goals.
The scheme, driven by the
parallel needs for (a) confidential
data destruction, (b) environmental
responsibility and (c) operational
efficiency, is known as The Closed Loop
Recycling Initiative. It involves the
collection of all HMRC’s departmental
waste paper, in itself no small logistical
task.
HMRC employs 68,000 people in
400 locations around the country. There
are already strict rules in place regarding
confidential data so ‘reaching’ so many
people isn’t quite as daunting as it sounds.
Once collected, the confidential waste
is shredded and turned back into office
paper. What’s so unusual about that?, I
hear you ask. Well, the whole process is
audited from beginning to end and that
means that the original waste paper is
returned as ‘new’ to its original ‘owner’. It
is a perfect recycling loop.
This Closed Loop process ensures data
protection for taxpayers’ confidential
information; meets numerous
sustainability goals; and even puts money
back into the state coffers.
Brighter
Unlike the rest of the Western world,
we’re fussy about our paper in Britain.
Research shows we like the paper that
crosses our desks to be bright white
which is unfortunate for the environment
as it involves lots of bleaching chemicals.
In fact, every single sheet of desk-top
paper used in the UK is imported –
another fragment of British industry to
go overseas.
‘Closed Loop’ paper is marginally less
bright than the Whitehall workforce has
become accustomed to but is just as
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Closed Loop Recycling in Numbers
n ver 20,000 tonnes of waste paper collected, shredded
O
and recycled.
n Over 1 billion sheets of 100% recycled Closed Loop paper
has been produced.
n Production of Closed Loop paper more than doubled to over
2 million reams in 2011.
n or every tonne of Closed Loop paper purchased,
F
1.5 tonnes of waste paper is captured.
serviceable and our civil servants have
embraced it with admirable relish.
To develop the complete Closed Loop
solution, HMRC collaborated with us
from the top down. The service was only
formally launched in April 2010 and we
were awarded the Central Government
contract four months later.
A measure of the progress we have
made is that since then over a billion
sheets of Closed Loop paper have been
produced with total sales exceeding
£3 million. In that time, virtually all of
HMRC’s copier paper has been recycled to
produce 2 million reams of ‘new’ paper.
Compared to the production and
manufacture of virgin bright white copier
paper, this equates to:
n CO2 emissions reduced by 3,373
tonnes (70%);
n Energy consumption savings of 40.6
million kilowatts (60%);
n ater consumption savings of 226
W
million litres (50%); and
n 68,000 trees saved.
Richard Costin, MD,
Banner Business
Services
The scheme has been so successful
that the Government’s Procurement
Review Board plans to roll it out
to the entire Central Government
administration. It is expected that this will
generate sufficient volume to merit the
private sector construction of a recycling
mill here in the UK in the near future.
It will be the first of its kind and the
first new copier paper mill to be created
for generations, with the usual beneficial
implications for employment and
environmental efficiency.
Paymaster General, Cabinet Minister
Francis Maude, said: “Closed Loop will
deliver significant savings along with
environmental benefits too by ensuring
Government Departments move to using
recycled paper.”
The adoption of the Closed Loop
scheme by Central Government will
mean scores of other departments, not
just HMRC, will be recycling paper in this
unique way – 73,000 tonnes in total.
In the heady climate of this initial
success and with encouragement
from the Government, we are already
extending the Closed Loop scheme into
the private sector.
Private Sector Initiative
Banner already works with Virgin Media
and McDonalds and is confident of
gaining new private sector customers who
are keen to reduce costs and improve
their sustainability and environmental
credentials.
McDonalds has used Closed Loop
paper in its 1,200 stores and seven
offices nationwide and achieved savings
of £25,000 per annum, finding that the
recycled paper is not subject to the same
price volatility as virgin paper.
Virgin Media were keen to improve
their environmental credentials and
also joined Closed Loop last year. Katie
Chapman, Acting Head of Sustainability
at Virgin Media, said: “Banner approached
us with a completely new way of doing
things. We’re always looking to improve
the environmental credentials of the
paper we use and we felt that such an
innovative solution was a good fit with
our brand.”
In my view, organisations like banks,
insurers, credit card companies and retail
multiples that use large volumes of datasensitive paper should consider taking
part in this initiative.
With new, highly punitive, moreor-less ubiquitous EU data protection
legislation coming into force in 2013,
now would be a very good time for
management of any organisation with
more than 250 employees to think about
keeping in The Loop.
www.bannerclosedloop.co.uk
01732 759725

17. signature tools for any business.
sign here
Stop handling paper.
Start saving time and money.
signsave and signsave | mobile are compact and robust plug play
signature capturing solutions providing efficient workflows with less
paper – either mobile for anyone who works frequently with documents
while on the move, or stationary at public counters.
signsave and signsave | mobile include Wacom sign | pro PDF
software and are designed for capturing signatures, especially for
smaller businesses with one or more branches: consultants, small
independent dealers, service companies, agencies, hotels, doctors,
repair shops, car resellers, industrial rental services, architects,
marketing agencies, healthcare service organisations.
STU-300
Stop printing, signing, scanning, archiving, transporting and retrieving
heaps of paper.
Start saving time money instead:
• easy to handle signature software – sign | pro PDF
• create secure PDF files from any application (virtual PDF printer)
• capture signatures electronically and merge them with the PDF document
• capture signature image and biometric data (pressure speed)
• signed PDF documents will be protected by a digital certificate
• no document changes possible after signing
• signing digitally feels natural – like signing on paper
• signed PDF is 100 % Adobe Acrobat compatible
• multiple signatures in one document possible
Create PDF from your original document
(e. g. Word, Excel®, PowerPoint®, etc.).
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Sign your PDF document.
STU-500
Save, archive or e-mail your
signed PDF document.
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18. Managed Print Services
Up and away
Removing large numbers of printers
from your business won’t only
save money; it will also help cut
carbon emissions, as new MPS
implementations for Defra and
Logica demonstrate.
As the Government department
responsible for the environment, Defra
(The Department for Environment
Food and Rural Affairs) has an interest
in reducing the environmental impact
of its operations and finding ways to
save money.
On the advice of IBM, its IT managed
services provider, Defra recently replaced
the ad hoc procurement of printers
and consumables with a managed print
service (MPS) delivered by Oki. In doing
so, it has cut costs and reduced CO2
emissions from office printing by 47%.
Covering 120 of more than 170 Defra
sites across the UK, the solution devised
by Oki is a classic MPS implementation
featuring printer rationalisation;
automatic just-in-time consumables
delivery; remote monitoring; agreed
service level agreements (SLAs);
telephone and engineer support; and an
all-inclusive fixed cost per page.
“
Oki suggested a
reduction in the
number of print
devices from
1,384 to 548...
Site visits
Before devising a solution, Oki analysed
printer deployments and business
processes at Defra sites throughout the
UK, from large central London offices to
small remote buildings in the Shetlands
and Orkneys.
“We audited 170 sites nationwide,
noting the devices and site
requirements,” explained Rob Brown,
business manager for Oki Managed Print
Services. “Just because an environment
has A3 colour MFPs doesn’t mean they
use A3 or the advanced features such
machines offer: they might just need an
A4 mono device.”
Based on its observations, Oki
suggested a reduction in the number
of print devices from 1,384 to 548,
standardisation on a balanced selection
of Oki models and the introduction of
paper-saving measures.
“Reducing the fleet on such a scale
brings big savings in power consumption,
and the machines have deep sleep mode
that delivers further cost reductions and
CO2 savings, which in total amount to
nearly 50%,” Brown said.
He added that Oki is also encouraging
more responsible and efficient printing
practices. “Defra itself had some simple
requirements like using default duplex
and mono output, but we also integrated
secure release functions, which improves
document security because a document
isn’t released until the user enters a PIN
number, and made the move to MFPs
and scan-to-email and scan-to-network
to improve document processes. In
the future, we aim to consolidate and
remove fax machines.”
As part of its service, Oki provides
quarterly reviews and continuous
assessments of how processes can
be improved, based in part on Oki’s
on-going monitoring of print activity.
Although Defra sites are far-flung, they
are connected to the main central
network, which allows data collection
agents to monitor printers remotely,
check consumables levels and pick up on
any problems as they happen or, in some
cases, pre-empt them. Data on printer
usage also makes it possible for Oki to
fine-tune printer deployments in line
with changing printing habits.
HP and Logica
Business and technology services
company Logica is another organisation
eager to reduce its carbon footprint.
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“We first measured our carbon footprint
in 2006 and started a universal campaign
called Stamp Down our Carbon Footprint,”
explained Logica’s UK head of health, safety
and environment Arlette Anderson. “Having
set a base line, we are now two years into
a long-term goal to reduce our carbon
emissions by 50% by 2020.”
As part of this programme, Logica
has enlisted HP to help reduce the
environmental impact of printing by almost
6,000 users at 23 UK locations.
An independent white paper, Alternative
Thinking About Printing, produced jointly by
HP and Newfield IT calculated that 5,000
print users generate 560 tonnes of CO2 a
year and use over 200 Megawatt-hours of
electricity.
To reduce power usage, cut costs
and streamline its print, Logica signed a
Managed Print Services (MPS) contract with
HP. As part of the MPS, HP shrank Logica’s
printer fleet by replacing many personal
printers with MFPs that print, copy, scan
and fax.
The current landscape includes 83
mono and colour HP MFPs and HP LaserJet
printers. Fleet rationalisation combined
with the greater overall efficiency of new
HP print technology and the use of remote
management to set economical ‘sleep’
and ‘wakeup’ times has enabled Logica to
achieve a 32% reduction in energy usage for
document printing.
The main culprit
HP and Newfield IT’s White Paper revealed
that the electricity needed to power a fleet
of printers for 5,000 people accounted for
14.5% of CO2 emissions, with toner and
ink usage responsible for 6.5%. By far the
biggest source of CO2 emissions was paper.
“Our total annual footprint was some
30,000 tonnes of CO2. Paper contributed
between 300 and 400 tonnes of that total,
or over 1%,” Anderson said. “To reduce
paper usage we introduced various print
reduction initiatives like poster campaigns, a
‘No Print Day’ and a ‘Think Green – Keep it
on the Screen’ initiative for email. We have
made duplex printing the default and have
implemented a Follow Me solution.”
As a result of these measures, Logica has
reduced the number of prints output from
16 million in 2006 to 9.7 million in 2011
and cut carbon emissions relating to paper
use from 407 tonnes in 2006 to 254 tonnes
in 2011.
Logica is well on track to achieving its
overall target of a 50% emissions reduction
by 2020, based on annual reductions of
6%. It achieved the 6% figure in 2009, but
increased savings to 10% in 2010 and 23%
in 2011.
01732 759725

19. Recycled Office Papers
A new range of top quality recycled office papers available
exclusively from the Premier Paper Group
160 CIE Whiteness
Available sizes
A4, A3, SRA2 SRA1
Available weights
80, 90, 100 120gsm
150 CIE Whiteness
Available sizes
A4 A3
Available weights
75 (A4 only) 80gsm
150 CIE Whiteness
Available sizes
A4 A3
Available weight
80gsm
Manufactured without chlorine bleaching. High whiteness is achieved thanks to a special converting process for the
recycled fibre. These papers have high opacity and good sheet formation in addition to maximum ageing resistance.
Excellent runnability on all types of machines.
For samples and details of the range contact your local branch or email evolution@paper.co.uk
www.paper.co.uk

20. what’s new...
Concerned: DPD CEO
Dwain McDonald
Signed, sealed and offset
Express parcel carrier DPD is providing carbon neutral
shipping at no extra cost to its customers. In line with its
Total Zero commitment, DPD parent company GeoPost is
making an annual investment of 5 million Euros to offset
carbon emissions relating to business operations in its five
largest markets. As a result, customers in France, Germany,
the UK, Netherlands and BeLux can now send carbon neutral
parcels of all weights and sizes to anywhere in the world.
As well as offsetting unavoidable carbon emissions by
investing in carbon reduction schemes managed by CDC Climat,
DPD is taking measures to shrink its own carbon footprint,
for example by sending parcels by road rather than air, which
produces eight times less CO2; by launching the Predict onehour delivery window, which has increased first-time delivery
success rates by 10%; and by using double-deck trailers that can
hold three times as much as single-deck vehicles.
DPD CEO Dwain McDonald said: “Many of our customers are
concerned about the environment and want to reduce their own
carbon footprint. Through our Total Zero commitment to carbon
neutral shipping, we are helping our customers deliver their own
CO2 reduction objectives – at no extra cost to them or their
customers.”
Get smart with batteries
CTEK is advising owners of cars, motorbikes and golf buggies
to make use of smart battery chargers to get maximum value
from 12V lead acid batteries before they are disposed of for
recycling. The producer of smart battery chargers says that
too many batteries are thrown away sooner than required
and that regular battery charging and maintenance has the
potential to double or potentially triple a battery’s service life.
Jan-Ulf Soderberg, CTEK head of brand and marketing, said:
“Our research has indicated that battery failure is leading to
a high number of batteries being thrown away earlier than
necessary. Effective chargers help condition a battery to ensure
it is in peak condition for as long as possible.”
www.ctek.com
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Made to measure
Accor has developed a tool to measure
the carbon footprint of events held
in its hotels, including the Sofitel,
Pullman, Novotel, Mercure and ibis
brands. Due to be rolled out to all Accor
sales teams by the end of the year,
Carbon Optimizer factors in a large
set of variables including the number
of participants, how many nights they
plan to stay, how long the seminar
will last, the size of meeting rooms,
the energy mix in the host country
and food services, i.e. the type of food
served and whether meals are buffets
or sit-down. Accor says the ability to
measure indirect emissions associated
with organising seminars, such as waste
treatment, paper and food, makes its
product better than carbon calculators
that only measure emissions from
production processes and energy
consumption.
www.accor.com
A right
cover-up
Senical makes
sophisticated
smart meters,
automatic
meter reading
systems and this,
a refreshingly
low-tech solution
to a problem that the Energy Saving Trust
claims costs the average UK household
£85 a year. The Ban the Button is nothing
more than a cap that covers and disables
the standby buttons on remote controls,
forcing people to get up and switch off
TVs, audio and entertainment systems,
games consoles etc. at the plug or on/
off button. It is available on Amazon for
£3.99 including postage and packing.
www.senical.co.uk
Own brand first
Image Recycled from Antalis
McNaughton has become the first own
brand office paper to be included on
the WWF Check Your Paper website,
which rates papers according to their
environmental performance. Launched
in December 2011, Image Recycled is
100% recycled and offers a range of
qualities, from general office paper to
formal company letterhead, in two highwhite shades and two off-white shades.
http://checkyourpaper.panda.org/
Accor’s Carbon Optimizer will allow
customers to choose menus based on
their carbon footprint and adopt more
responsible choices.
Editor’s Choice Award
Sustainable
Humanscale
A PIR occupancy sensor
that automatically turns the light
off when you walk away from your desk
and back on again when you return is just one of
many impressive features of Humanscale’s new
Element Disc LED Task Light. Advanced Thin Film LED
technology overcomes the weaknesses of conventional
LED task lights by offering brilliant 3000K illumination
and excellent light distribution in a slender profile.
Fingertip adjustability makes it easy to direct
light exactly where it is needed, with seven
levels of brightness. Element Disc
contains 62% recycled and 96%
recyclable content; uses only seven watts; is rated for up
to 50,000 hours of use, equal to 25 years in most 9-to-5
work environments; and contains no mercury, lead or other
hazardous materials. www.humanscale.com
In its
element
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21. Power pack
A clear advantage
Clear Notes are sticky notes with a difference. As their name
suggests, they are transparent and don’t obscure the text
beneath, making them ideal for marking up documents.
Another benefit, from a sustainability angle, is that they
are re-usable when used with a wipe-clean Clear Notes
marker pen, although the same could be said of any sticky
note written on with an erasable pen like the Pilot FriXion.
A big limitation of the recyclable PET notes is that they
must be used with marker pens rather than everyday writing
instruments.
Light, lighter, lightest
Light Tape UK has developed portable battery units to
expand the possible applications of its energy-efficient light
source for signage and accent lighting. Suitable for use inside
or outdoors, Light Tape comprises a metal ribbon coated
in Sylvania phosphor and encapsulated in a Honeywell
laminate: it has no glass, no gas, no mercury/heavy metals, is
just 0.5mm thick and consumes 85%-90% less energy than
Neon and Cold Cathode lighting. It is easy to install, requires
little or no maintenance, has a long working life and can
be mains or battery-powered. To date, take-up of batterypowered options for temporary, free-standing or portable
applications, from exhibition stands to safety clothing, has
been disappointing due to the need to supply a DC power
unit separately to the battery, switch and charger which
can make the solution bulky and difficult to conceal.
Portable battery packs for Light Tape Glo-Pro Safety
Clothing overcome these limitations: the power driver and
battery are encased in a single unit about the size of a pack
of playing cards; they have vastly extended battery life; and
are rechargeable. Three sizes are available for powering up to
36, 60 or 100 square inches of Light Tape.
www.lighttape.co.uk
www.binfo.co.uk
The CrossKase Solar 15 backpack combines a
useful back-up power supply for mobile
phones and gadgets with a comfortable
25-litre day pack with room for a
computer, book, spare clothing and
snacks. The solar panel on the outside
charges up a portable battery that can
be unplugged and used to charge small
electronic devices (it comes with nine
connectors) but not laptops. Crosskase
says the panel does not require direct
sunlight and will trickle charge in overcast
conditions. However, this takes a very long
time and even in optimum conditions (i.e.
bright sunlight) it takes about eight hours to
charge the battery. Alternatively, the battery, which
holds enough power for two or more devices, can be
recharged via USB or mains power. The CrossKase Solar 15 costs £139.99.
Biomass toner
Cloud computing
reinvented
Pano Logic claims to have reinvented
cloud computing for the desktop with
a new system that shifts 100% of
processing to the cloud and delivers
web-based computing using Google’s
Chrome browser as the interface. Pano
claims that the combination of Pano
System for the Cloud and solid state
G2M Pano Zero Clients is the most
cost-effective computing platform for
organisations seeking an alternative
to PC-based or thin client models that
rely on costly end user software and
hardware. All computing activities are
centralised in the cloud so there is no
need for a local operating system or
endpoint processing. The Pano Zero
Client, which has no processor, no
storage, no memory and no operating
system and consumes 90% less power
than PCs (6 watts maximum and less
than 0.2 watts in sleep mode) connects
the user’s keyboard, mouse, display,
and audio output to a Google Chrome
cloud desktop browser process running
on a Pano Controller for Cloud server,
through which users access softwareas-a-service (SaaS) solutions or webbased applications.
www.Panologic.com/Pano-System/
Cloud
Following in the footsteps of Ricoh, Konica
Minolta and compatibles manufacturer
SymbioPrint, which markets a range of
soya-based toner cartridges, Kyocera
has unveiled new toner with a carbon
neutral, biomass content of 30% and an
equivalent reduction in CO2 emissions
compared to conventional petroleumbased toner. The renewable material
included in Kyocera’s BIOMASS toner
comes from palm oil certified by RSPO
(the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil).
The toner is due to be launched in Europe
later in the year and will be available for
five BIOMASS printers/MFPs based on
exisiting FS series models.
www.kyoceradocumentsolutions.eu
Oil palm fruits contain about 50%
oil. The Roundtable on Sustainable
Palm Oil (RSPO) promotes the use of
palm oil produced in a socially and
environmentally sustainable way.
Photo credit: MPOC
Editor’s Choice Award
Sustainable
Pano Logic
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22. Electric Cars
Power networking
Electric cars have failed to live up to
expectations, but are still seen as an essential
weapon in the fight against greenhouse gas
emissions. With the continued support of
Governments and ongoing improvements in
battery technology and recharging networks,
could their time be about to come?
A new report from GlobalData,
Technological Developments Reducing
Range Anxiety for Electric Vehicles,
points out that in an attempt to reduce
the transport industry’s contribution
to global CO2 emissions, which
currently stands at 23% (source:
the International Transport Forum),
Governments continue to offer
incentives to promote EV adoption.
The UK Government, for example,
provides grants of up to £5,000 or
25% off the cost of an electric vehicle,
as well as exemption from car tax.
There are also local initiatives, such as
London Congestion Charge discounts and
free parking.
Even so, Department of Transport
figures reveal that in the first 18 months
of the Plug-in Car Grant scheme (from
Jan 2011 to June 30, 2012), just 1,706
claims were made.
The high purchase price of electric
cars is one reason for the low take-up,
but more fundamental are the limitations
of existing battery technology and
the absence of a widespread charging
infrastructure that together have limited
EV use to commuting within city limits.
GlobalData’s report identifies some of
the ways in which car manufacturers are
helping to reduce ‘range anxiety’ – the
fear of running out of battery power.
These include faster recharging and
increased ranges on a single charge (e.g.
by switching to petrol power when a
battery becomes depleted or using solar
panels as an additional power source).
It also highlights developments
in battery technology, notably the
replacement of NiMH batteries used in
97% of hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs)
with advanced Lithium-ion (Li-ion)
batteries, which should increase the range
of HEVs from 200km to 300-500km per
charge.
Recharging infrastructure
Equally important is the establishment
of a network of public charging stations
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where drivers can quickly recharge EV
batteries. In a survey of more than 1,000
consumers carried out for Chargemaster
by Aurora Market Research, 83% of
respondents said that the lack of a
national charging infrastructure was a
concern.
Progress is being made in this area,
with the establishment of rapid charge
Plugged-in
Energy Saving Trust is working with 20 organisations
across the UK to demonstrate how electric fleets can be
the driving force behind powerful savings.
Boots UK, London Fire Brigade, Network Rail, Surrey
County Council, Southwark Council, Tristar, the University
of Cumbria, Wm Morrisons PLC, York City Council and 11
other organisations are taking part in the Energy Saving
Trust’s Plugged-in Fleets initiative, run in partnership with
EDF Energy.
As part of the scheme funded by Transport for London
(TfL) and the Department for Transport (DfT), experts
from Energy Saving Trust and EDF Energy will analyse each
organisation’s fleet to identify where electric vehicles can
best be used.
Findings and case studies from the initiative will be
published in a final report helping fleet managers in other
organisations identify how they can make savings by
introducing electric vehicles into their fleets.
Caroline Watson of the Energy Saving Trust, said: “Our
recent Plugged-in Fleets report has shown that organisations
can save money now when selectively introducing electric
vehicles within their fleets, and our Fleet Advice team can
provide practical and impartial recommendations to help
companies achieve this.”
www.energysavingtrust.org.uk
networks that will enable customers to
charge a battery in 30 minutes or less
compared to 3-4 hours with a standard
charger.
By the end of this year, Chargemaster
Plc, operator of the POLAR national
electric vehicle charging point network,
hopes to have installed 4,000 standard
and quick charge bays in public
locations throughout the UK, including
railway stations, shopping centres and
supermarkets.
Meanwhile, Roadchef has started to
roll out a network of motorway-based
rapid charge points for electric vehicles,
with the switching on of its first rapid DC
charging system at Clacket Lane services
on the M25. Over the next six months,
it plans to install pay-as-you-go charge
points at other Roadchef Motorway
Service Areas across the country.
Green energy supplier Ecotricity
is involved in a similar scheme at 27
Welcome Break motorway service
stations, with the added twist that
the charging points are all powered by
renewable energy from the company’s
wind and solar farms.
Another option being pioneered by
EV charging infrastructure specialist
Better Place is a network of battery
switch stations where drivers can swap
a depleted EV battery for a fully charged
one in the time it takes to fill a car with
petrol. This summer, it opened a switch
station at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol
that will give 10 Renault Fluence Z.E.
Electric taxis operated by three Dutch taxi
companies virtually unlimited range as
they drive to and from Amsterdam.
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