Recently ink cartridge manufacturer Toshiba announced a carbon offseting scheme. The company is enabling UK and Irish businesses to opt into a scheme that, rather than funding windfarm development and the like, gives people across Kenya access to greener and healthier cooking appliances.
The scheme is simple. Businesses across the UK and Ireland who purchase Toshiba multi-function printers can opt into something called the African Energy Efficient Stove project. Managed by CO2balance.com, this project gives Kenyan people access to domestic stoves that replace open fires. These stoves both cut the consumption of firewood by more than half – saving 3 tones of CO2 per cooker each year – and bring down the 1.6 million deaths caused by smoke inhalation across Keyna annually.
Businesses that opt into the scheme not only offset the carbon produced in their own use of the multi-function printers. They also offset the carbon used in Toshiba‘s manufacture and distribution of the printers. Moreover, Toshiba’s scheme enables businesses to offset the CO2 produced throughout each printer’s lifetime, including peripherals like paper and ink cartridges. Companies can choose to offset either five years of printing or one million copies.
Toshiba’s TEC Imaging Marketing Director Steve Hewson said: “The African Energy Efficient Stove project delivers savings on two continents and means that as well as contributing to your own environmental efforts, you can make a very real difference to the lives of people in East Africa.”
For more information please visit CO2balance.com.
