Making a difference in more ways than one ….

If you manufacture a product, there is a good chance that you are borrowing natural resources from the environment around you, and often these cant be replaced. Our business dictates that we use various plastics to manufacture our medical consumables, and as the materials in demand are non-biodegradable, this sits uneasily with us. Vitalcare has therefore adopted the following initiatives:

1. Carbon-Clear: We’re serious about our responsibility to tackle global climate change.
That’s why we’re delighted to be cancelling our carbon emissions with Carbon Clear,
www.carbon-clear.com.

Carbon Clear invests in projects that remove carbon dioxide from the air by replacing polluting technologies with clean ones, and planting native trees. Carbon Clear’s projects are in developing countries and are carefully screened to ensure they improve local people’s wellbeing. We have worked with Carbon Clear to calculate the exact amount of carbon dioxide we emit, and Carbon Clear has identified projects that prevent the same amount of carbon dioxide from entering the atmosphere. Current projects for 2009 / 2010 range from a Sudanese low-smoke stove project to a re-forestation project in Tanzania

All Carbon Clear’s projects are guaranteed to meet the highest standards of social development and environmental rigour.

For more information, please visit www.carbon-clear.com.

2. Packaging: all of our paper and shipper cartons / box packaging is from a recycled source.

So you can see… if we’re in it, we take it seriously.