How to Reduce Their Impact on the Environment
The industry of furniture removal, which is driven by fossil fuels and the translocation of homes and businesses, could be seen as one that has a significant negative impact on the environment.
More than anyone would dare to believe, local moves can produce pollution that is much closer to that of interstate removals.
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A local travel through the CBD of Sydney, Brisbane, or any other big Australian city could surprise many with the similarity of both sets of emissions produced by the various journeys, contrasted to an interstate move at night with little but a clear road to negotiate.
With PR-friendly slogans like "think globally, act locally," but with little actual, frontline action, it can feel like the war is losing ground in this belated age of environmental consciousness.
There is a country that refuses to abide by the Kyoto Protocol or a multinational corporation that acts as environmentally irresponsibly as is humanly possible for every government department that finally decides to switch their light bulbs or for every new council that starts to offer improved recycling capabilities.
Businesses in this industry are committed to addressing this issue.
Some change their habits by working with the Carbon Reduction Institute.
The Carbon Reduction Institute has been running for ten years and is the result of a partnership between the World Resources Institute and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development.
Several steps must be done before an organisation may be registered by the institute as carbon neutral.
First, the institute conducts a thorough audit to figure out the exact size of the company's carbon footprint.
Following completion of this, the auditors meet with the company and make suggestions for lowering carbon emission.
What some companies do is accept the final option available and cut out the effort that should be involved; buying carbon credits and offsetting their emissions.
In order to achieve a carbon neutral equilibrium, businesses can effectively trade their emissions with clean energy producers through the process of carbon offsetting.
The Karnataka Renewable Energy Project is used by the Carbon Reduction Institute to offset the carbon emissions of its members.
The New Zealand-based project generates electricity by burning agricultural waste, such as rice husks, while reducing methane generation and relieving the country's dependence on fossil fuels.
Through this initiative alone, greenhouse gas emissions are decreased by nearly 30,000 tonnes CO2 year.
Since 2007, the project has been registered with the United Nations Clean Development Mechanism.
For moving firms, carbon offsets should be seen as just the beginning; more must join the cause and take the required actions to lessen the environmental impact that the industry has.
