Our Green Policy

At warrantyworks we are genuinely interested in green issues and our directors have been involved in green issues since the 1970’s.

During the 1970’s our managing director Andrew Greenough worked with a recycling company (Reclamat Limited) that was recycling waste plastic into building materials and he recalls that they were recycling 20 years before it became fashionable. Since the 1990’s he has been actively involved with running an organic farm in North Wales and possible future projects involve green power generation from water and wind power and the recycling of timber waste from the farm.

In the 1990’s car pollution was starting to be recognised as a serious issue and there was a practical problem as manufacturers would not approve of LPG conversions and green customers who had cars converted found manufacturers unwilling to honour their warranties. To alleviate this problem Stuart Haskell our Operations Manager worked with UK Ministry of Transport to develop a warranty for LPG conversions, making a huge contribution to the greening of the UK car fleet.

At warrantyworks we see vehicle warranties as being a practical way of greening UK cars-

Whilst cars can never be totally green, we work in practical ways to reduce their pollution costs, we understand a cars pollution cost breaks down into three areas:-

• Manufacture
• Normal day to day running
• Recycling

Practically we can do nothing about Manufacture and Recycling but we aim to make a significant contribution to the environmental costs of running a car. We simply aim to prolong the working life of a car; by

• Encouraging owners to have their cars properly maintained and
• Repairing cars that otherwise might be scrapped, or that might be operated in an environmentally inefficient way.

A long life car operates at lower CO2 & NOx costs per mile as manufacturing and recycling costs form a lower percentage of the running costs. And we see second hand cars as being fundamentally greener than new ones, so we seek to discourage owners from

• Treating cars as disposable consumer items
• Unnecessary driving

Together we can help to make the roads a greener space.