The cost of living... what can we do?

When I was out today at the aquarium they had information boards about plastics in the ocean and climate change.

To reduce our carbon footprint and curb a warming climate according to the information boards, top of the list was, refrigeration.

 

Reduce our dependence on it; just look at the number of lorries, containers etc with chilling units on them. Local Sainsbury buy and collect point is at the end of the car park so orders, picked, placed in van with chiller, driven across car park, then sits with engine idling (most of the time) waiting customers to pick up.
We ship a lot of material via Polar Speed as temperature control is specified by the regulator (MHRA) as we only test storage life at 40°C. In a traffic jam in summer this can be exceeded in the back of the van; though not necessarily in the packaging.
Air conditioning units running at the same time as the heating.
Our server room is in the core of the building, we expanded our system this year and had to fit additional chiller unit to cope with this load.
etc, etc, etc.

 

One idea Compulsory burial/cremation of corpses within 5 days as is practised here. None of that keeping them in the fridge for three weeks!

 

It was the issue of disposing chilling and cooling units that was the main concern, apparently only about 10% are disposed of properly. The problem is the gases that leak in to the atmosphere, with the chilling and cooling industry growing at a rapid pace the disposing of these systems is of major concern.

Consumers are trying, even being asked to cut down on energy consumption, yet our local Poundland and Home Bargain stores have just recently had a refit, the chilling and freezing section area has increased nearly 10 fold, walking in that area feels like your in an Iceland store.

 

Most new build I'm seeing do have panels I sometimes wonder why they couldn't fit a few more in, but they are there.
I've seen some that seem to be flush fitting rather than fitted on top of tiles.
I think a lot more design could be built into them,most of the time they look like what they are, a complete after thought.
Triangular ones would be good for hipped roofs. But I suppose
Varying angles could be a problem

 

Let's face it, half the year, in the UK you could get away with an out house as a fridge.

 

Half the time I think it's the crematoriums that can't keep up.

 

Oups! I thought that it was a cultural/ legal thing, as there's always been a much longer delay between death and disposal in UK. I didn't realise that there are logistic (if that's the right word) delays too Um....is anything still working efficiently over there?