Including the closely related terms waste recycling, waste, and waste recycling.
… offsetting projects. Between 2009 and 2020 we have reduced the Council’s own carbon emissions by 50.9 per cent through: • installing solar photovoltaic systems on Council assets • Light-Emitting Diode (LED) conversion of street lighting • robust and flexible energy purchasing strategy • ambitious waste recycling targets • managing business mileage • asset improvement and reduction…
… travel, procurement, waste and water. The Cheshire West and Chester Carbon Management Plan for 2016-2020 set a target to reduce in-scope carbon emissions by 30 per cent by 2020. A reduction of 50.9 per cent was achieved. https://ghgprotocol.org/ This is based on primarily Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions with reductions in emissions associated with waste in Scope 3…
… as scope 2; generated from the production of electricity consumed across the Council estate. This accounted for 46 per cent to the total emissions measured. The remaining emissions are largely split between gas burnt on site (22 per cent) to produce heat, and emissions associated with the collection and treatment of waste from the borough (24 per cent). The remaining 8 per cent are residual…
… emissions split up from a variety of sources. Source Scope 1 t/CO2e Scope 2 t/CO2e Scope 3 t/CO2e Total t/CO2e Percentage of Total Electric 25,252.6 2,208.2 27,460.8 50 per cent (46 per cent+4 per cent) Gas 12,184.5 12,184.5 22 per cent Oil 401 401.29 1 per cent Business Mileage 1,058.9 1,058.95 2 per cent Rail 16.5 16.55 0 per cent Water 209 209 1 per cent Waste 13,188…
…/CO2e, 2% Mileage Scope 3 t/CO2e, 1% Water Scope 3 t/CO2e, 24% Waste Scope 3 t/CO2e, 0% Rail Reported scoped emissions from 2014-2015 Latest results The last full year of emissions reported by the Council was for financial year 2019-2020 with a total of 26,778.7 t/CO2e. This represents a 50.9 per cent reduction against the baseline year 2014-15. 2019-20 values will form…