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Proud winners of the Temple Bar Green'n'Clean Awards 2008 - best environmental policy.
The team at Kinlay is committed to a greener future. Listed are the initiatives we are undertaking towards helping our environment:
- All staff are trained on green issues and encouraged to contribute towards making our hostel greener. They walk, cycle or use public transport to get to work.
- All plastic, paper, cardboard, aluminum cans and glass, batteries and gas cylinders are collected and recycled.
- We use recycled paper for all our printing needs and recycle ink and toner cartridges.
- We have installed motion-controlled lighting where suitable to reduce energy wastage.
- All showers and taps are fitted with push buttons to reduce water wastage.
- The boiler has been upgraded to enable us to adjust the heating and turn off heating to sections of the building as and when required.
- We have upgraded all of our office and guest computers to those with a higher energy rating.
- The hostel is powered by Airtricity who generate electricity using wind power – producing no emissions or by-products of any kind. Year to date, our power saving is on average 1600 units per statement – equivalent to 4.13 c02 tonnes per year.
- Our Green Officer attends Sustainable Tourism Conferences and training days and we are active in forming links with eco friendly partners in the tourism sector.
- We are currently researching ‘green suppliers’ of cleaning and office products.
- We are calculating our carbon emissions and will be offsetting this.
Future plans:
Our building is to be upgraded in 2010 and we plan to: - Increase window insulation to minimise heat loss
- Install solar panels on the roof
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2-12 Lord Edward St, Temple Bar, Dublin 2. | t: +353 1 679 6644 | f: +353 1 679 7437 |
info@kinlaydublin.ie |
