Green/Environment Award: EcoCarriers BSE

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Bury Free Press West Suffolk Business Awards 2023 Green/Environment Award winner: EcoCarriers BSE

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00:00 (upbeat music)

00:02 - I'm joined by David Fisher, Libby Ranzetta,

00:06 and Rowan Wilson from Eco-Carriers Beresford Edmonds.

00:09 Winners of the ARC Shopping Centre

00:11 Green Environment Award.

00:14 Congratulations to you all.

00:16 What does it mean to be winners here tonight?

00:19 - Absolutely fantastic.

00:20 I mean, brilliant for what we do in Beresford Edmonds

00:23 and what we do across West Suffolk as well.

00:25 So brilliant, absolutely fantastic.

00:27 - What is it exactly that you do across West Suffolk and Bury?

00:31 - We do zero emission deliveries.

00:33 So we deliver stuff by bicycle and e-cargo bike,

00:37 but we also run a lot of cycling community projects.

00:40 So we teach kids to ride bikes.

00:42 We have a bike library.

00:43 We cycle with children to school in our bike train.

00:46 Yeah, anything cycling, that's us.

00:48 - You're a not-for-profit social enterprise.

00:50 Is that right?

00:51 What does that mean in practice?

00:53 - So it means, well,

00:55 we're a community benefit society technically,

00:57 which means we've got a trading arm and a community arm.

01:00 So any surplus trading profit we make

01:03 goes into our community projects.

01:04 So we think it's a very good way of working.

01:07 - And environment is at the heart of everything that you do,

01:11 presumably hence the award tonight.

01:13 - Yeah, yeah, yeah.

01:14 Yeah, we use bicycles, electric assist bicycles

01:20 for everything we do.

01:21 So our emissions are low and our pollution is low.

01:25 Yeah, I mean, we're attempting to keep the fumes

01:29 in various environments as low as we can.

01:32 We just need more people to use us.

01:33 - Excellent.

01:34 Okay, well, congratulations to you all.

01:36 Well done.

01:37 - Thank you.

01:37 Thank you.

01:38 (upbeat music)

01:41 (upbeat music)

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