Dartmouth Golf & Country Club

Dartmouth Golf & Country Club has collected the National Gold Award in the annual International Green Apple Awards in recognition of their hard work and best practice in the Health, Leisure and Travel category.

The environmentally friendly practices at Dartmouth Golf & Country Club have ranged from the “reuse, reduce, recycle” scheme to their “switch on to switching off campaign”. All staff inductions incorporate the club’s environmental policy and the club has a “Green Committee” who meet regularly to continuously review and improve in all areas.

These practices have reduced electricity usage by 20%, gas consumption by 10%, water usage by 40% and a reduction in waste going to landfill of 40%. Approximate cost savings amount to £18,500 per year amongst a variety of other positive improvements to the business, the environment and benefits to the local community.

All plastic, glass, paper, cardboard, metals/cans, toner cartridges at Dartmouth Golf & Country Club are now recycled by TQ Recycling.

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