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• 10 ways tradespeople can reduce business costs

  18-07-2023 12:38 via electricalcontractingnews.com
  
  An expert has shared 10 ways that tradespeople can reduce their day-to-day business costs, from fuel expenses to marketing.
  The last few years have placed a lot of financial strain on tradespeople, with the cost of living crisis adding to the impact of rising material prices and Covid 19.
  As a result, many have tried to reduce their outgoings, and recent research by ElectricalDirect has found that an increasing number of workers are repairing their own tools (16%), keeping kit for longer (27%) a
  
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• InSinkErator launches its single-use plastic reduction campaign

  18-07-2023 12:12 via ertonline.co.uk
  
  InSinkErator has launched its consumer facing campaign to encourage the reduction of single-use plastic waste. The campaign invites everyone to “tackle plastic waste together” and it has examined the vast amount of single-use plastic water bottles. It has found that Londoners buy enough single-use plastic water bottles every year to cover 890 times the length […]
  
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• Report reveals heat pump sales in UK and France

  18-07-2023 12:08 via electricalcontractingnews.com
  
  A new report has revealed that France is cutting carbon from heating buildings 10 times faster than the UK by deploying more than 10 times the number of heat pumps.
   
  Last year, France sold 621,000 heat pumps, saving 15.6Mt of CO2 emissions, while the UK sold just 55,000 heat pumps, saving 1.5Mt of CO2 emissions, and had the lowest installation rate of 21 European countries.  
   
  The UK government has set a target of installing 600,000 heat pumps a year by 2028, meaning they must a
  
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