Tony Shelton
Environmental Consultant / Past Director
I'm meeting with another new filter manufacturer next week in Arizona to take a look at his design. He brought up the fact that we are on the same page as far as reducing waste goes so pulled out some of my old research and had forgotten about this:
Using standard throwaway pleated filters:
Each C*stco sized store uses the equivalent of 1 tree per filter change.
It takes 2.2 gallons of water just to to produce a 2 inch standard pleated air filter. (We can clean an equivalent permanent filter using less than 1.5 gallons.
For every ton of paper filters we replace we save:
Over 4000 gallons of water.
17 trees
30 gallons of fuel
42,000 KW of energy
3 cubic yards of landfill space.
Every Single Year!
We use nothing but nature's best cleaner (water) and a less than a gallon of fuel for every tree we save.
How's that for positive?
How can you put statistics to work for you in your area of expertise?
It's pretty easy to find stats for KEC but what about other fields?
Using standard throwaway pleated filters:
Each C*stco sized store uses the equivalent of 1 tree per filter change.
It takes 2.2 gallons of water just to to produce a 2 inch standard pleated air filter. (We can clean an equivalent permanent filter using less than 1.5 gallons.
For every ton of paper filters we replace we save:
Over 4000 gallons of water.
17 trees
30 gallons of fuel
42,000 KW of energy
3 cubic yards of landfill space.
Every Single Year!
We use nothing but nature's best cleaner (water) and a less than a gallon of fuel for every tree we save.
How's that for positive?
How can you put statistics to work for you in your area of expertise?
It's pretty easy to find stats for KEC but what about other fields?