First Camp is the first camp chain in Sweden has received Keep Sweden Tidy Foundation Eco The Green Key. It includes: that the staff at First Camp is trained in environmental issues. At the same time puts a lot of focus on sorting and information on how important it is to conserve water and energy. First Camp has also made successful experiments with solar energy and the electricity you buy is from renewable sources. First Camp also blocks allowances as a contribution to the fight to reduce carbon emissions.

Affärsverken is environmental work constantly in focus, as the company is ISO 14001 certified. Affärsverken has long offered its customers the chance to offset their climate impact by blocking the allowances. Customers can also choose electricity that is marked with the Good Environmental Choice and electricity from hydropower origin marked. The slogan is understood to be the most environmentally friendly kilowatt-hour is the one you save.

Now we want to Affärsverken and First Camp for your convenience as camping guest, so you can be environmentally smart even during your vacation. Together we have developed some simple tips to keep in the caravan or glove compartment.

Guide for greener summer and an environmental smarter holiday

Grill the green -

Summer, sun and camping often delightful evenings of grilling, which is not always feel so environmentally friendly. But it is possible to cook a bit wiser not to affect the environment too much.
Use lighter fluid made from ethanol.
Use the FSC and the SIS-marked charcoal, locally produced.
Grill like organic meat and vegetables labeled requirements.
Replace the finished grilling the oil with its own combination of canola oil, soy sauce and herbs.

Smart Cooking -

When you boil the egg breakfast, use the lid to the pot and make sure that the pot bottom is as flat as possible and that the pan fit the plate. Only by putting the lid on the boiling as reduced energy consumption by 80%. Also remember that the kettle is camp's best friend! You save time, but most of all, it takes half as much energy when you use the kettle instead of boiling water in a saucepan.

Energy efficient food storage -

Keep your food right and save energy! Start by setting the right temperature, +5 degrees in the refrigerator and -18 degrees in the freezer. Defrost often and clean the back of the refrigerator and freezer, two times a year so you reduce your carbon emissions by approximately 1.2 kg in one year. A figure that can also be good to remember is 10. When the fridge and freezer passed 10-ĺrsstrecket would they like to start consuming more energy.

Use compact fluorescent lamps -

Although the summer evenings are bright, the which the late hour when the lights need to shine in the caravan. By using CFLs will save you kilowatt-hours as well as living a CFL approximately 10 times longer than an incandescent bulb. If we play with the idea that all First Camp guests have a lamp lit during the dark hours. When the lamp is replaced with a CFL will save us together nearly 27 million kilwatt-hours, or as much as 1343 electrically heated homes consume in an entire year. (And as much as Barseback 2 produced during 53 hours ...)

Showering quickly -

Try to shower as quickly and efficiently as possible. Even a low-flush shower spray is already at a five-minute shower a consumption of 60 liters of water and 2.2 kWh of electricity. Calculated on the country's all campers, it provides a power consumption over one year of 38.5 million kilowatt-hours, or as much as is produced in 11 modern wind turbines.

Thoughts on the laundry -

Even during the holidays, we need to wash. Please remember to complete the machine, skip the prewash and try to air dry your laundry if you are able. Most energy is namely to the right drying of clothes. There are clothes pegs and washing line to buy in all First Camp stores.

Wash the pods -

Dishwasher is a good alternative to save energy (if you scrape the leftover food before you put the disk in the machine) but during the holidays are usually hand-washing is the only option. Use the washing-up bowl instead of washing dishes under running water. In this way we help each other to save some of Earth's resources!

Wise Driving -

Transport accounts for a very large proportion of carbon dioxide emissions today. As far as possible, it is good to ride and use public transport, but when you drive your caravan on holiday try to think about "EcoDriving" ie. use engine braking, using high gears, skip gears when possible, decoupling is not too soon when to stop etc.. Another good tip is to check that the tire pressure is correct - it reduces emissions of carbon dioxide!

Let the heater rest -

Reduced use of fan heaters in the tent. If all Swedish campers that are connected to the power pole using a fan heater with thermostat suitable for awning over an hour, consumed 24.5 million kilowatt-hours, as much as 12 000 apartments consume in an entire year.

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