Burncoose Nurseries - Reducing our carbon footprint

A rather lengthy video from Charles as he tours around Burncoose Nurseries looking at the steps being taken to reduce the nurseries carbon footprint for the future.
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As lockdown (hopefully) becomes an unpleasant memory, it is time to think about the next major challenge which all businesses face in the next 10 years.
Confining the global temperature rise to 1.5C to 2°C, reducing global warming, and achieving Carbon Net Zero (a 60% reduction in carbon emissions relative to 1990) requires all businesses and individuals to reduce their own greenhouse gas emissions. The government has set out challenging plans to meet this target by or before 2050.
So where does Burncoose position itself in all this and what can we do to improve?
Within the nursery we have already taken the obvious, immediate, steps which we can:
We have now changed to using only recyclable pots rather than black plastic ones although it will take a year or two to complete this change in the growing cycle of the plants which we produce
Nearly all of our packing materials are now biodegradable and, apart from the plant labels themselves, no plastic is involved.
We have made great strides in moving towards a paperless packing shed with nearly everything possible relating to your orders simply on a screen
Our potting compost is now only around 60% peat with the remainder now being composted bark
Our propagation units are now heated with electricity rather than gas.
There is however much more which we can do in the next few years:
We intend to replace as many of the transport vehicles in the nursery as we can to being rechargeable electric ones
Although we have a bus stop on an A road outside the nursery entrance, we are located in the countryside. Car sharing amongst our staff and reducing the number of people coming to work in petrol/diesel vehicles becomes ever more important. Several of our staff already live on site.
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[@iamchinny3]

I've been watching all of your videos and I just wanted to say thank you for giving us a behind the scenes look at the running of your nursery. This video is really cool!

[@space4099]

There’s electric vehicles aren’t as powerful or reliable as petrol. Fuel vehicles are. They’re also more expensive. And do you remember when you plug in your electric vehicles most of your electric powers coming from Cole or oil burning something to think about. Apologies for pointing this out, but I hate for you to make your life difficult in the nursery just to follow a political narrative.