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Igloo Environmental was created in 2007 to promote its brand new patent protected product - HatchThatch. This new product is primarily fabricated from recycled waste streams. Each year the UK landfills or combusts millions of tonnes of waste that could and should be recycled. Landfill is the worst kind of disposal as it wastes valuable resources and at the same time causes large quantities of CO2e to be emitted into the atmosphere. Not only is this causing damage to the environment, it is also necessitates the need for other prescious resources to be cultivated to replace wasted assets. Typically these new resources are also ultimately landfilled thus allowing both the squandering and pollution process to both repeat and continue.
We are tackling the climate change problem from two fronts. Our main task is to directly prevent the harmful affects of climate change by reducing greenhouse gases. As is widely known carbon dioxide magnifies the power of the sun to create global warming. This means that eventually, unless checked, the planet will either be underwater, as the polar ice caps melt, or arid like a desert as all the water has been converted (burnt) to gas (steam). Either way mankind cannot survive. Therefore we must do two things 1) reduce the volume of carbon dioxide created by burning fossil fuel and 2) preserve natural resources thus preventing them degrading to methane.
Methane is a greenhouse gas 23 times more potent than carbon dioxide. Here in the UK, for example, we landfill each year almost 6 million tonnes of paper, cardboard etc. This volume of cellulose produces no less than 500 million tonnes of equivalent carbon dioxide.
HatchThtach prevents heat from venting away from peoples homes thus preventing the need to burn more fossil fuel to create heat.
Presently we are trying to be virtuous. In one way we have a world beating product that prevents carbon dioxide from being emitted. And we make our products from recycled materials that would otherwise be allowed to become harmful methane. Yet at the same time we are keeping people warm and cosy in their own home.
Insulation is very, very important.
If your home has only the typical 100mm of glass fibre roll and an un-insulated loft hatch you are not only wasting money but also causing needless, preventable harm to the environment.
At the moment insulation could not be cheaper not only is it being subsidised by the major power companies; large economies of scale are also available as many loft installation companies are achieving good discounts from the manufacturers.
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According to the BRE (govt scientists) approximately 4% of valuable house heat vents though a un-insulated loft hatch. Hardly anyone in the UK has insulated their loft hatch. This means that the average person is over paying about £40 per annum on their heating bills.
Modern building regulations requires that loft insulation should be at a depth of 270 mm. Yet if the hatch remains un-insulated there shall be a disproportionate impairment of this 270mm of about 10% e.g. 27mm is being effectively "lost". On very windy days, or for the more exposed homes. this impairment can be even greater. owing to what is known as the calorific boulevard.
The loft hatch area of the home is the second warmest part apart from the airing cupboard. Often situated above the hall, landing and stairs means that warm air vents "eagerly" away though the hatch. This being caused by the chimney stack affect drawing (like a fire chimney flue) warm air out of the house and into the cold loft.
It has been known for vapour pressure to actually lift a loft hatch and this causes even greater venting of warm air.
REMEMBER
Insulate your home properly. Even the smallest tiniest of gaps create draughts. Even the smallest of draughts are very expensive. |
