Appichar Goes Green And Offers World-First CarbonZero Computers

Published 16th June 2006

appiChar Ltd, a leading specialist in providing IT support and consultancy to the charity and not for profit sectors, has announced that they have become CarbonZero and that all computers that they sell will be CarbonZero for the first year of their life.

Following a special audit on the amounts of carbon they produce as an organisation, appiChar has committed to becoming CarbonZero by joining co2balance, who will be planting sufficient new trees in reclaimed farm land to off-set the calculated amounts of carbon that the company produces, as trees naturally absorb carbon.

By becoming CarbonZero, appiChar’s overall aim is to counterbalance the emissions caused by the use of everyday energy at their offices and also in business-related travel. They hope that this will help raise the issue of wasted energy, particularly in relation to the use of IT and where there are areas for our customers to make savings.

Aside from appiChar’s CarbonZero commitment and the direct environmental benefits, they will continue to ensure that their customers are advised on the best options to make full use of the equipment they already have rather than replacing unnecessarily. An example would include a project appiChar recently completed, which resulted in the life of the PCs in a 150 computer network being extended by several years – a huge saving for the organisation and the environment.

Where new PCs are required, appiChar will be making them CarbonZero for their first year of their life at no extra charge. Oxford University has estimated that the CO2 emissions from one ‘always-on’ PC are 716kg per year, almost the equivalent to driving from London to Moscow AND BACK! This number can be reduced greatly by making sure PCs are switched off when they aren’t being used.

By off-setting the CO2 from essential use it use it helps to highlight the problem of CO2 emissions and reduces the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere. In a recent study, it was estimated that the top 200 companies in the UK waste £61 million per year, or 2.8 million kilowatt hours just by leaving PCs switched on.

appiChar Director, Ian Ryder, said “Organisations of all sizes have to think seriously about their environmental impacts and take positive action to mitigate them where they can. Most of the energy used in this country is still created by burning fossil fuels and the subsequent CO2 being released has now been proven to be helping to warm the planet. We hope that by offering this service to our customers we are helping to raise awareness of the issues while at the same taking back some of the CO2 we and our customers are responsible for.”

Mark Simpson, Director of co2balance, was delighted that appiChar have become what is becoming a growing list of companies that are now CarbonZero, and are taking seriously the issue of climate change. “Global warming is real threat to all of us, and it is fantastic that appiChar are now a CarbonZero company, not only for the environment, but also for organisations that will be able to purchase computers safe in the knowledge that for the first year of their use they will not be contributing to climate change”.








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