Environmental Commitment at Alan Day Honda
Alan Day Group has formed a working partnership with Credential Automotive, one of the UK’s largest automotive waste recyclers.
In a typical year, Alan Day Group Dealerships have to dispose of:
- 10,000 waste oil filters
- 4,000 litres of waste antifreeze
- 2,000 waste aerosols
- 60,000 litres of waste oil
- 10 tonnes of waste lead acid batteries
- 3,000 litres of contaminated rags and granules
- 5,000 waste car tyres
All of this is classed as Hazardous Waste and requires Alan Day Group to invest in Credential Automotive’s unique Total Waste Management Programme which contains, collects and recycles all of the waste produced throughout the group.
For example, car tyres are shredded, frozen and then broken up to produce rubber that can be used in children’s playgrounds and running tracks, while waste oil is recycled to be reused as fuel. Oil filters are cleaned and shredded to re-supply the UK’s aluminium market.
At Alan Day Group these steps have been taken to not only protect the local environment, but to ensure that Alan Day Group customers can be certain that, in an increasingly fragile and environmentally threatened ecosystem, we already understand the need to act in a responsible and environmentally friendly manner to protect not only the customers of today, but those of tomorrow.
Alan Day Group is committed to meeting new environmental legislation head on and leading wherever it can be seen to benefit the local community. Underlining this commitment as of 1 June 2008, Alan Day Group Dealerships will be providing a safe and secure disposal point for all household batteries, from torches to remote controls, watches and mobiles, for all visitors to our Dealerships.
Myself and all of the staff are passionate about ensuring that we do not waste energy or any other resource.
We make sure that lights and computers are off when not in use, and have a selection of environmentally friendly cars at all of our showrooms, which means they meet very strict environmental criteria for the life of the vehicle.
With recent legislation forcing producers and eventually households, to pre-sort waste to reduce the volumes currently disposed of within landfill sites, the need to recycle will become an integral part of our daily lives in the not too distant future where, apart from the glass bottles that we all regularly dispose of, we will be required, through the Waste Electrical Directive, to compliantly dispose of everything from a hairdryer, to the batteries from the TV remote control.
Andy Potter, Aftersales Director
London Drivers go for Greener Cars
Motorists in Greater London are more likely to buy a low-emission hybrid car than anywhere else in the UK, according to research conducted by Honda.
The survey found that 44% of drivers in the capital said they were likely to buy a hybrid.
It also revealed that despite many financial incentives on offer to hybrid owners in the capital - including Congestion Charge exemption and cheaper parking - those who said they would buy a hybrid would do so because of environmental reasons, not to save money.
Hybrid cars, such as the Honda Civic Hybrid, use both a petrol engine and an electric motor to drive the wheels. The electric motor assists the petrol engine to both reduce exhaust emissions and use less fuel.
The motor also cleverly draws its power from the car's braking system, utilising the kinetic energy created when the vehicle slows.
As a result, the Honda Civic Hybrid returns a staggering 61.4 MPG fuel economy and emits just 109g/km of carbon dioxide.
