Forest Green Rovers

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    dreamboy3000 Well-Known Member

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    Look at what they announced earlier this week......

    https://www.fgr.co.uk/news/spill-the-beans-on-coffee-waste-kit

    Waste coffee grounds and recycled plastic to be used to make their kits. They already have bamboo kits. Clubs all around the world should be doing more for the environment and not encouraging the era of fast fashion that ends up with billions of pounds of clothing ending up in landfill.
     
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    Shirts from coffee grinds is beyond my imagination. Bamboo I can see but coffee? That’s alchemy.
     
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    A vegan club throughout. Legends in the AR community..:)
     
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    Dale Vince is a great bloke to listen to if you get a space half hour. Have a listen to his ideas and plans on YouTube, he’s been driving electric vehicles for 30 years, his home was powered by Solar energy and water power alone and plans to have their new stadium doing so.

    Fair play to him.
     
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    Put in the wash at 40 with some Ariel and you’ve got yourself a cappuccino.
     
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    And football clubs would do the planet an even bigger favour if they only updated their kits every few years instead of what feels like every few months.
     
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    Interesting life he's had. New Age Traveller to football chairman.
     
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    I have bamboo underwear, and that is all I will say on this topic.
     
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    Tbf football shirts are very hard wearing.
     
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    I bought same if those bamboo pants. Like going commando they are so comfy.
     
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    As the Americans say "You got wood?"
     
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    Permanently! ;)
     
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    Superb football club that are doing things the right way. This is just the tip of the iceberg in terms of what they’ve announced recently.

    - Collaboration with Bovril on a Beetroot version just for them
    - Sponsorship and partnerships with Innocent Drinks, Faith by Nature and Oatly. All businesses doing way more than others on being sustainable
    - As part of Innocent sponsoring the stadium they’ve agreed to plant 100 trees for every 0-0 game across all divisions (linked to net zero carbon emissions)
    - They also might end up pouring beers from BrewDog across all their bars from next season. The world’s first and only carbon negative brewery

    Really inventive and inclusive club. Always looking out for their results.
     
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    What makes brewdog carbon negative? As in how does that one of thing work?
     
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    Short answer trees. Longer answer here
    https://www.brewdog.com/uk/tomorrow
     
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    Short answer isn’t trees as we announced it before we had planted any.

    We take twice as much carbon out of the air as we emit. Electric delivery vehicles, windmills powering the brewery, creating green gas and renewable energy through spent grain, adding 25% surplus bread that would go to waste in to the Lost Lager malt bill, and loads of other stuff,

    Just had our £14 million anaerobic digestion plant, water treatment plant, associated energy generation centre and co2 recovery plant all approved just last week.
     
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    Blimey and I was impressed by the 2000 acre forest.

    It must have cost an absolute fortune to do all that
     
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    I can see how the measures you mention reduce the amount of CO2 put in to the atmosphere but not how they take carbon out? Fantastic though they most certainly are!
    Taking carbon out of the air is trees? No? From the website
    THIS MEANS WE TAKE TWICE AS MUCH CARBON OUT OF THE AIR AS WE EMIT
    Our carbon, is our problem. So we are going to fix it ourselves with our own 2,000+ acre forest
     
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    Its been done gradually over time. Slow build to get to that sustainable position.

    I don’t see the accounts but it always seems to be invest, invest, invest to grow, grow, grow rather than hoard the profits. That’s why it was genuine touch and go at the start of the first lockdown on the business getting through it, but thankfully we launched loads of initiatives that brought in extra sales.

    The last crowdfunding raise six months ago brought in £11 million and it was pitched around sustainability with every penny raised fast tracking the program (hence getting sign off on the new plant last week).
     
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    Absolutely brilliant that. A lot of other companies could learn a thing or two from you lot.
     
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