Eco Friendly and the Environment:
There will always be a role for “Landfill” in every Town & City, but the challenge is “how to get landfill reduced to a more acceptable level?”.
This matter will only be resolved by central government driving multiple and innovative solutions where every person considers the alternatives, which includes changes in how and what we buy.
- Each TPR™ frame house uses 18 tonnes of selected waste in the process, this waste would otherwise have gone to land fill.
At Affresol Ltd we recognise that we can play a small part in reducing the amount of waste that is going to landfill.
Our houses are designed as being eco friendly with embedded solar panels as an option.
Affresol is also working with a number of research institutes on “battery bank” technology for homes that will allow the solar panels to heat the water in the homes and any excess will charge the batteries (to drive all electrical appliances in the home) and when the batteries are fully charged any further surplus can be fed back into the National Grid which will generate a payment from the grid to the home owner.
Other options on Affresol homes are rainwater harvesting, and air source heat pumps.
Affresol is also looking to launch the Eco Homes into Africa and Australasia.
Making the built environment sustainable
There are a number of major industry initiatives to encourage a more eco friendly and sustainable built environment. However, many of the materials used in the construction of houses today frequently cause environmental pollution during their production.
Currently, 12 million hectares of forests are cleared annually and each family home requires an average of 6 to 9 trees in the build process
Quarrying causes a huge amount of damage to the landscape apart, from the high monetary cost of extraction and the subsequent restoration cost post extraction. All required in the production of concrete, bricks, cement, and related products
In Summary:
Quarries can damage landscape, much of the timber comes from unsustainable sources, concrete and metals use huge amounts of energy in production, PVC production produces atmospheric pollution. Timber is marketed as being sustainable because the trees that have been “farmed” are replaced.
House building products made from recycled material, are less likely to cause environmental damage when compared to new products.
TPR™ is a classic example of how utilising waste as a resource can make a real difference in helping to reduce the amount of waste going to landfill and reduce the amount of concrete products being used.