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 SeaFlower-Australia's packaging partner, Bangalow - Northern NSW based, Ant Packaging, has become Australia's first carbon neutral plastics manufacturer after calculating it's total carbon
emissions and offsetting them with government certified carbon abatement
projects.
Ant Packaging Director,Tony Margan says his company recognises
there is a perception that plastics manufacturing is considered harmful to the
environment. "The reality is plastics are an effective use of waste
product from the energy resource production process that would otherwise be
released into the atmosphere to harm the ozone layer. However, we acknowledge we use energy;
therefore we generate greenhouse gas emissions and thus are a contributor to climate
change. We take our responsibility
seriously enough to have done something about it!"
Ant Packaging commissioned Byron
Bay company Cool Planet to prepare
calculations for the carbon emissions associated with it's business operations.
The results are calculated under the guidelines of the Greenhouse Gas Protocol
which is the most widely used international accounting tool for building
credible and effective programs for tackling climate change.
Cool Planet calculated Ant's
emissions to include electricity consumption, office supplies, product
distribution, plane transport and staff transport at an annual 559 tonnes of Green House Gas.
"The total has now been offset by
the purchase of Renewable Energy Certificates from Greenpower approved
generators and Carbon Offsets from projects accredited by the Australian
Government’s Greenhouse Friendly program" says Tony Margan.
The projects involve the design and
installation of Photovoltaic Stand Alone Power Supply systems (solar panels) in
the Byron Shire and the Regional Resource Recovery Centre in Western
Australia which diverts household rubbish from landfill
to compost. This project won last year’s Greenhouse Challenge Plus award for
outstanding achievement in greenhouse gas abatement.
SeaFlower-Australia congratulates Ant Packaging on becoming the first carbon
neutral plastics factory in Australia and see's it as a positive step forward in helping to address the effects industry has
on climate change.
The move also adds weight to SeaFlower-Australia's day to day management of Carbon negative production and supply chain elements which can help reduce the overall Carbon Footprint of the entire SeaFlower range.
ENDS:
http://www.antpackaging.com.au
http://www.coolplanet.com.au
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