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Online bookings
Climatecars, the Green Fleet Best
Private Hire/Taxi Firm of the Year, has
produced an iPhone App that makes it
easy for customers to book one of their
eco-friendly cars at any time of the day
or night. Climatecars has a large fleet
of environmentally friendly hybrids and
some 100% zero emission electric cars.
All have leather seats and are stocked
with free Belu mineral water and
magazines. Pricing is competitive, with
a trip from Central London to Heathrow
costing around £50.
www.climatecars.com
Evergreen Stabilo BOSS
goes green
Stabilo has launched a recycled version of the ever-
green Stabilo BOSS highlighter, an office favourite
for more than 40 years. Made from 83% recycled
plastic, it can be bought singly, in a desk set or in an
80% recycled paper four-pack. In other respects, the
Stabilo Green BOSS highlighter is the same as the
standard model, with ‘Anti-Dry-Out’ technology for
a 4-hour cap-off time.
www.stabilo.co.uk 01753 605656
Adapt for a longer life
A new adapter that converts a digital HDMI port to analogue
VGA overcomes the problem of what to do with an existing
monitor when you replace an old PC with a new computer
that has an HDMI port only. Using the Sandberg adapter to
connect a VGA cable to the computer’s HDMI port would
allow you to continue using a VGA monitor and save the
expense and waste of buying a new screen.
www.sandberg.it
Bright and white
Herma has launched a 16-strong recycled labels range. The
Blue Angel-certified labels are notable for their exceptional
brightness of 97% (CIE 133) even though no chlorine bleach
or other optical brighteners are used. According to Herma,
the whiteness is purely the result of very careful waste paper
selection. The adhesive used is water-based and contains no
solvents, plasticisers or acids.
www.herma.com/theblueangel
Now food packaging goes
to your waistline too!
Levi’s Waste<Less jeans, part of the brand’s
Spring 2013 collection, are made from denim
with a recycled plastic content of at least 20%.
The recycled PET plastic comes from used drinks
bottles and food trays and each pair of jeans
contains as much plastic as eight water bottles.
Waste bottles and food trays are sorted by colour,
crushed into flakes and made into a polyester
fibre that is blended with cotton fibre before
being woven with traditional cotton yarn to
create denim. In total, Levi Strauss & Co. expects
to use more than 3.5 million recycled bottles
in the collection of denim jackets and jeans.
Waste<Less follows the launch earlier this year
of theWater<Less collection that uses a new
finishing process to reduce water use by up to
96%. Levi Strauss & Co. estimates that, to date,
the collection has saved more than 360 million
litres of water.
www.levi.com
Outward bounds activity provider Wilderness Scotland is to introduce
a programme of carbon neutral corporate experiences in the Highlands
and Islands.Wilderness Events can devise incentive experiences, creative
charity challenges and team building exercises for groups of 4 to 400
people and all fitness levels. A range of activities is available including
mountain biking, canoeing, sea kayaking and nature walking.Wilderness
Scotland is the only activity company to gain a 5-star, ‘exceptional’ rating
fromVisitScotland’s quality assurance scheme. To find out more, visit
www.wildernessevents.com
or call
01479 420 020.
Five-star adventure