14. Office + Business

It’s so obvious that offices and businesses use a lot of energy, and make a huge energy footprint world-wide. Business people may feel a bit blasé about this, as they have don’t pay the energy bills themselves, out of their own pockets. So we see here in Shrewsbury shop doors are left open, with heat spilling out onto the pavement, wasting huge amounts of heating energy, and no-one feeling it too personally.

People may recycle lots of household waste at home, and feel a bit impotent about how to do the same at work, which recycled products to buy, and how to give up car dependence, etc. There are many tips and useful contacts in this domestic guide for you to follow, that are applicable to work as well.

Business can sign up to a Borough Council scheme that provides containers for mixed colour glass, and recycling tape or a bulk collection for cardboard. Businesses can also buy double-ply paper sacks, to segregate mixed colour paper for recycling, from SABC reception, Claremont News and by direct deliveries.

For further details

T: 01743 281161, or

E: richard.johnson@shrewsbury.gov.uk.

Trade Waste enquiries

T: 01743 281158

E: commercialwastebins@shrewsbury.gov.uk

Marches Energy Agency

23 Swan Hill, Shrewsbury, SY1 1NN

T: 01743 246007

W: www.mea.org.uk

Offer free surveys and access to capital grants for energy saving for businesses in most of Shropshire.