Katharine House Hospice call for standard CO2 conversion factors for shop departments
Katharine House Hospice in Stafford have piloted new CO2 data on their customer facing displays. When you buy a donated item the till calculates the CO2 saving verses buying an equivalent new item for that shop department, and displays the CO2 saved at the end of the transaction. Simon Dodd, Retail General Manager, said:
"Promoting sustainable shopping is great for charity retail, and being able to tell a customer how much CO2 they’ve just saved by buying second hand rather than new is really effective, but I’d love to see standard CO2 conversions for the most common shop departments. I’m sure there’s lots of data out there, but the only CO2 calculator for charitable recycling I’ve seen is actually from Australia! Eproductive have set up a system that allows each charity to enter their own conversion factors for different shop departments. For textiles there’s quite a bit of research but it gets more tricky for furniture, electricals and other shop departments. It’s still early days, but if you’re in charity retail and interested in taking this forward do get in touch.”
