Sustainability through Eloorac
Transport frame solutions
Deforested forests seen from space, bird's eye view and ground level.
On this page, we would like to highlight the current state of our forests. The insatiable hunger for wood is resulting in entire regions around the world being deforested on an unprecedented scale. Forests that have grown over centuries are being cleared for consumer goods such as pellets, paper, toilet paper, paper cups, napkins, cheap furniture, and, of course, wooden packaging such as disposable transport racks. Industry is insatiable and clamors for more. In recent years, some sectors have required twice as much wood from Eastern Europe as in the previous year. These increases are due to one single reason:
WE consume too many resources and think too little about our environment.
It's time to take a more critical look at this issue. For this reason, we've decided to present some facts about how the transport industry works today and how we at Eloorac offer an alternative that benefits the environment. Several reports, including videos, highlight the abuses in the forestry industry. It's striking that none of the videos address the industry's disposable policy. Thus, the damage caused by the daily use of disposable wooden racks hasn't yet been recognized.
Earth Overshoot Day – Everyone is talking…
WE act!
In the first eight months of a year, we consume the amount of biological resources that our Earth can regenerate in a year. However, to obtain the amount of raw materials we need for an entire year, we would need 1.75 Earths at our disposal. Unfortunately, we currently only have access to ONE Earth .
Earth Overshoot Day is an annual campaign by the organization Global Footprint Network , the day of the current year on which human demand for renewable resources exceeds the Earth's supply and capacity to reproduce those resources in that year.
For the rest of the year, we maintain our ecological deficit by depleting local resource reserves and accumulating carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. So we are working in overshoot .
The respective date is calculated by relating the global ecological footprint (the human demand for biological resources within the year in question) to the total global biocapacity (the amount of global regeneration of biological resources within the same year).
Similarly, the respective annual resource consumption is extrapolated to a corresponding number of Earths. The goal of the campaign is to raise awareness of the limitations and finiteness of natural resources and the Earth and to demonstrate how the date can be pushed into the future.
In plain language: The fewer raw materials we consume, the sooner nature can regenerate. Using reusable products leads to less resource extraction and thus to the regeneration of our natural environment. Good for our children, our grandchildren...
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An ecological deficit occurs when a population's ecological footprint exceeds the biocapacity of the land available to that population. A national ecological deficit means that the nation is importing biocapacity through trade, liquidating national ecological assets, or emitting carbon dioxide waste into the atmosphere. An ecological reserve exists when a region's biocapacity exceeds its population's ecological footprint.