“Green” and “eco friendly” – what do they mean?

We are all familiar with the terms such as ‘green’ and ‘eco friendly’ and ‘environmentally friendly’ but what does this actually mean? For us at K&H this means looking at how our working lives affect the environment, by not wasting resources and reducing the amount of waste going to landfill.

Last year we all put our heads together to come up with ways in which we could be more eco friendly and between us we came up with over 30 ideas. Over the last 12 months we have done most of the easy things, like changing to energy efficient light bulbs, recycling as much as possible, switching off computers and printers at night and starting our own compost heap. But we are now going to look into other ways to be greener and come up with a plan for the next year or so. I will update on our efforts over the next few months!

Meanwhile, we are starting to think about what to grow in the K&H garden this year. All the team tend to get involved in one way or another, whether by bringing in surplus vegetable plants from home, weeding or eating the produce.

We started our own compost heap last year and have been adding various vegetable matter over the winter and are hoping our homemade compost will help provide us with bumper vegetable crops in the summer and autumn. I will keep you posted!

If you would like to share your green ideas with us, please contact Susan Kemish on 0118 923 5811 or by email