Well there’s nothing wrong with aiming high. Andy Jones, Sales Director and General Manager Edgetech UK has written to Tony Blair, the Prime Minister, in an effort to promote Window Energy Ratings, and no doubt his company’s Super Spacer product too.

The letter begins: ‘In your interview with BBC Radio 1 (Monday 7 August), you said that if each household had three energy-saving light bulbs, ‘[we] would save...the equivalent [energy] of all the street lighting in Britain.

‘We could save even more by choosing energy saving windows, which as you know are now energy rated like fridges and white goods. But most people aren't aware that these windows are available – let alone how to source them. And there are no Government incentives to buy.’

Andy Jones continues: ‘According to the Energy Saving Trust, a household fitting the minimum 'C' rated Energy Saving Recommended windows in place of standard windows can typically cut carbon dioxide emissions by over half a tonne per year. This is a huge saving, as 20% of the heat lost from an average home occurs through the windows.’

UV and Plastics

Concerns about Climate Change are the basis of a letter published in the Financial Times from Tony Walsh, Managing Director of Freefoam Plastics.

Extracts of the letter read: ‘Most plastic building products already installed contain adequate protection from UV levels previously experienced in the UK.

‘But the amount of UV we are exposed to now has risen dramatically and therefore the amount of protection needed has increased.’

He goes on: ‘Products break down and fail sooner unless they have the right level of protection, just like our skin.’

It looks like we’ll see more direct approaches to government and the popular press in future. Just bear in mind that PR man Mike Rigby has a hand in these two.

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