Wessex Timber Windows is currently in the process of going environmentally friendly and is already doing the following:

• Paying for a glass skip in order to recycle all glass from old windows. The company that empties the skip comes all the way from London
• Farmers come to take bags of wood shavings to use for cattle bedding; they are asked to bring back all old bags to be reused and recycled as much as they can. Sometimes supply outstrips the demand for shavings, so they are then emptied into a skip so the bags can be used again and it is also easier and quicker for the wood shavings to root into the ground.
• Junk mail is recycled as internal notepaper.
• Used ink carriages form printers and fax machines are given to the local Scouts for their recycling bin and helps with their fundraising.
• All old window frames and off-cuts are used as fire wood in our woodburner which heats the factory. When we don’t need the heat from the woodburner in the summer, the off-cuts and old timber window frames are delivered to local scout centres so the Scouts can use them for their camp fires.
• The ash from the woodburner is put into empty 20-litre paint tins which then are disposed in a skip.
• For the future the company wants to improve systems for its environment such exploring the cost of a water system that uses rain water for the plumbing system.
• Wessex Timber Windows has such a good recycling system that it only needs a skip every 3-4 months for the rubbish that is unsuitable for re-use.