Our Aims

RAISE ENVIRONMENTAL RESPONSIBILITY AND AWARENESS

• Encourage responsibility for our environment at a local level by respecting the natural cycles and organisms that keep the earth in balance.
• We borrow our resources from the environment- we should return these to it & we squander them at our peril

HELP ADDRESS CLIMATE CHANGE

• • All “waste” creates harmful emissions. Waste is collected and disposed of by road = emissions; biodegradable waste in landfill creates anaerobic decomposition producing methane, a powerful greenhouse gas 21 x more powerful than CO2.

Note: BCCS uses a small amount of fossil fuel to power its sieve and shredder (approx half a gallon p.a.) but its work still has an impact on CO2 reduction.  An average of 7kg CO2 of emissions on a 20 mile round trip is saved; x an average of 2 trips per year per member (some walk but we know many others would make many more car/van trips p.a) for 130 members = 1.8 tons CO2 is saved. This is the equivalent of 46 trees grown from seedlings for 10 years, x the 10 years of our scheme = 460 trees. The following websites were used to make these approx calculations:
http://www.epa.gov/cleanenergy/energy-resources/calculator.html

• Use our compost to replace peat. When peat is extracted and used in gardening the stored carbon is released as CO2, a greenhouse gas.
  https://www.nature.scot/peatland-action-case-study-whats-connection-between-peat-and-carbon-storage
• Compost is a carbon sink
  http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/02/080225072624.htm