Jo Bird and company are one of the very limited numbers of UK companies who have signed up to a pledge to halve the company’s CO2 emissions by 2030.
Being heavily involved in the offshore wind sector may have been one of the reasons for being shortlisted by SWMAS and it has been audited by Ashley Webber at Balanced energy to measure CO2 levels with suggestions as to how this could be reduced to help achieve this ambitious goal.
This was a very detailed report looking at estimating the levels of CO2 from several sources including heating and travel amongst other things. A dashboard report is then produced to make it easy to monitor.
steps to reduce CO2 emissions
The latest report will show Jo Bird have achieved Platinum status (from standard) due to significant CO2 reductions compared to the previous year but a lot of this is due to COVID restrictions reducing the business traveling so other avenues are being explored to continue the CO2 reduction and keep the company on track.
Significant steps are being taken to reduce emissions from the production process and to also reduce waste materials by redesigning the tooling and the use of more closed molds. This has the added benefit of improving the quality of the cabinets but it is an expensive and time-consuming exercise if a very necessary one. The race is on.