The Co-operative Bank has launched a new product, ecoinsurance, to help make driving greener. This is the first of its kind in the UK, and works by offsetting some of your carbon emissions caused by driving, but without any additional cost to you, so it’s very competitive. The additional benefits of ecoinsurance are discounts for vehicles with emissions lower than 100g of CO2 per kilometre, and the eco-friendly repair network where items like bumpers and used oil are recycled.
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A solar powered shuttle boat has been launched on the Serpentine Lake in London’s Hyde Park, and will be open to the public from tomorrow.
Thought to be the biggest of its kind in the UK, the 48ft Solarshuttle will carry 42 passengers every half-hour between the boat house on the north side of the Serpentine, and the jetty in the south.
The Solarshuttle cruises at 4 mph, powered by two electric motors that are silent and emission-free. The engines are powered entirely by the sun, and when the boat is not in use the surplus electricity generated by its solar panels will be fed into the National Grid.
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I’m confused when I hear people say they’re saving water by washing their dishes by hand because when I bought my first dishwasher two years ago, I did my research and found that by buying a AAA-rated machine I would be saving not only time, but water and electricity too. Still, the myth that dishwashers are water-gobbling evils prevails, and so I was grateful and relieved to read in The Guardian that it’s now official, get a dishwasher and save water.
A study by Waterwise, an NGO dedicated to reducing water wastage, shows that washing dishes by hand is wasting millions of litres of water every day in the UK. This supports research at the University of Bonn that shows that by using a dishwasher, households could save up to 11,000 litres of water annually. That’s a lot of water!
While dishwashers back in the 1970’s used on average 50 litres per wash, modern appliances use as little as 9 litres per cycle. I’m guessing the average sink holds around 20 litres at least, and that’s not taking into account changing the water when it gets greasy, or rinsing dishes.
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