How Gritting Company AA Salt Intends To Go Carbon Neutral.
A gritting and snow clearance company from Worcestershire has revealed its plans to go carbon neutral by 2030, with various strategies in place to help it achieve its lofty goal.
AA Salt, which grits and snow ploughs car parks and access roads over the winter months, will soon be installing a new wash bay onsite that will see its vehicle fleet cleaned using harvested rainwater, the Worcester News reports.
Apparently, approximately 50,000 litres of rainwater will be collected from the roof of its storage warehouse each year, which can then be used in place of valuable mains water supplies.
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AA Salt also intends to purchase its first electric lorry next year, with the ambition in place to make the entire fleet battery-powered inside the next decade.
AA Salt’s sales and operations director, Ben Tanner, said “We have already made sizeable investments into our environmental approach but our ten-year target is about going one step further and really committing to helping the environment over the long-term. It is about small changes that can make a big difference, which includes our water harvesting plans with our wash bay. He went on to say “Electric vehicles are also the future and as long as we can buy electricity from a renewable supplier, and the automotive industry can keep up with demand, we want 100 per cent of our fleet to be battery-powered”.
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