Great Big Green Week

I would have thought that "providing water on tap" by the use of service pitches, results in a greater usage of water than wheeling an aquaroll from 30yds away. 

It is all very well having recycling facilities, but every site, with either major club, and every independent site Including CLs or equivalent) get rubbish and food mixed in with the recycling.  Until everyone actually cares about rinsing containers (normally required) and separating correctly, then a fair few recycling centres simply send the contaminated material to landfill or incineration.

It would help to have everything required clearly laid out for each individual site as the acceptable combination of say cans and plastic and what is classified as acceptable plastic and paper varies so much around the country.  

I’m sure it does in the caravan itself. However, with our caravan on a service pitch we used our shower and washing up sink, rather than those on the block. I would suspect that we used less water than when on a standard pitch and using the facilities. Although you can run the cold as much as you want 9 litres of hot does not last that long.

Having done both certainly not for us, we use water as and when we need whatever the pitch type Arthur. We refill the aquaroll morning and night and if on site during the day we refill if we run dry.

Of course people are on holiday, and I've never come across another type of holiday accommodation (not tents) where water isn't on tap and used as one wants, and yes I do count my caravan as a hotel/B&B/holiday let on wheels.

I suppose it's all historic as older campsites had just one tap every so often and it was easier to build them that way? Now most newer sites have SP and more and more of them, as I said it's meant to be a holiday. I'm sure you'll be aware from comments on here they are extremely popular.   

Very good point, I'll certainly take longer in the showers in the facilities than in the caravan.

I notice in the latest magazine that only 6,000 of the 385,000 members read it digitaly! Maybe if there was an option of a  digital subscription like the C&CC with a saving on membership fee, considerably more would agree to this greener option.

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Regarding water use and our guesses as to which sort of pitch uses the least it always amazes me as to the number of people, particularly motorhomers, who fill their water tanks to the brim on arrival and empty that unused on leaving. Same with a few caravaners dumping their aquarolls contents. I wonder how many litres are wasted across the network during a season. I bet it’s considerable.

Is a digital magazine greener though? There are lot of contradictory views and research studies depending on if you believe that or not, with as far as I can see, no definite answer.

Digital magazines do not use any paper, so many consumers believe that digital magazines will save forests. However, digital magazines will be stored in servers that require energy use.

"It depends" Other research institutes have also concluded that printed media don't inherently possess a worse environmental impact compared to their digital counterparts. The argument stands that a print medium consumes resources and energy during production only once but can be utilized multiple times.

And yes of course there are just as many quotes which give the opposite view but there is no one definitive answer. But looking at the magazines racks in any supermarket, most if not of all which have digital copies, people do still like having a paper copy. I'm one of them as I find reading print versions easier to read.

People do have the option not to receive a paper copy of the club magazine yet only less than 2% (or just over3% of members households) choose to do so, perhaps that is more to do with wanting a paper copy than a saving? I would still want a paper copy.

Anyone have a data on the take up of the CCC digital subscription in relation to number of members?  

Also of course look at the complaints on here when a paper copy doesn't arrive or is late. And of course the club might lose revenue from advertising in the magazine.

Same with a few caravaners dumping their aquarolls contents

Of course that's because we do not have the option of taking that with us and have to do so, unlike MHs.

Personally I always try and 'run down' the aquaroll before leaving, easy to do as just switch the tap off on a SP in the morning, but no matter how careful there will always be some left that has to be emptied, but I agree that no one should be emptying a full aquaroll.