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I recommend that the employees Conclusion
of Shalom Movers bring home
the idea of conserving energy Based on our team’s findings from the environmental
by adopting the same eco- review, we propose the following eco-solutions to
friendly practices at home, for Shalom to reduce its carbon emissions and save business
example, by maintaining the costs:
air- conditioning temperature at
25oC and as far as possible, use a • Replace its existing 24-foot diesel trucks with
fan instead of the air-conditioner. diesel-hybrid or hydrogen trucks to achieve better
Yan Jie Then they can reduce energy fuel consumption and meet the Euro 6 emission
costs and their carbon footprint. standards when available in the market.

In summary, I felt that the project • Install a timer to automatically switch off the office
was significant. It teaches students and companies air-conditioning system during the 1-hour lunch
to look at things from different angles and adopt eco- break and after office hours.
friendly practices to reduce carbon footprints, reduce
costs, and contribute to our environment’s long-term • Replace its existing manual water taps with
sustainability. automatic taps.
Before the implementation of the solution, the projected
amount of annual CO emissions are estimated as
2
follows:

Based on the above information, the total annual CO emissions savinga are estimated to be 72,286 kgCO after
2
2
implementing the proposed eco-solutions. (See Table 3 ).
Resource Annual Usage Annual CO Emissions Conversion Factor
2
Electricity 523,020 KWh 219,041 kgCO 0.4188 kgCO /kWh
2 2
Water 12 m 3 3.6 kgCO 0.3 kgCO /m 3
2 2
Upon implementation of the solution, the projected amount of annual CO emissions are estimated as follows:
2
Resource Annual Usage Annual CO Emissions Conversion Factor
2
Electricity 350,423 KWh 146,757 kgCO 0.4188 kgCO /kWh
2 2
Water 3.6 m 3 1.08 kgCO 0.3 kgCO /m3
2 2

Table 3: Projected amount of saving for annual CO emissions.
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