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Re: Environmental Benefits Equivalent for Avoided Energy Costs
2012-01-13 18:08:17 UTC
Thanks, All. I am familiar with the online calculators for personal use. I am looking for a new way to express to a commercial customer that the total tonnage of all the paper, plastics, metal, and electronic recycling for the year saved an energy equivalent of X. We currently calculate (rather our accounting software and accounting department calculates) that equivalent in terms of gallons of gasoline saved. I wondered if there is another equivalent for ENERGY SAVED that other organizations have found especially meaningful to a recycling customer. Perhaps not, but thought someone may have thought of something we had not. Thanks!
Meg Rowe
Sustainability Advisor
Garten Services, Inc.
United States
www.garten.org -
Environmental Benefits Equivalent for Avoided Energy Costs
2012-01-12 13:33:33 UTC
Hello All,
We are a not-for-profit recycling processor (among other business enterprises) and provide an annual letter to our recycling customers to quantify the environmental benefits of the waste they diverted through recycling, e.g., "You recycled 30,401 pounds of waste paper...[and] you saved the equivalent of 321.61 trees that would have otherwise been harvested for paper pulp."
We are in the process of updating the letter and are looking for a good "energy saved" equivalent. We currently convert the avoided energy costs into gallons of gasoline, but would like to know of other energy equivalents that might be more meaningful to a recycling customer. FYI, we also report equivalencies in terms of water saved, GHG emissions avoided and hauling costs.
Thank you in advance for your thoughts and comments.
Meg Rowe
Sustainability Advisor
Garten Services, Inc.
United States
www.garten.org
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