Green waste from work

That's the name of the spreadsheet I created back in Febuary this year to record the amount of compostable stuff produced by our team. We are a team of 7 (one works part-time and one left this month so now 5.5 in total) and everyone of us eats fruit more or less on a daily basis. In the past those banana skins, apple stones, orange peels etc were thrown into the normal bins and were most certainly ended up in landfill sites. Starting from 1 Feb, I decided to bring them home, weigh the waste, record the figure and chuck them into my compost bin. I intend to use the data to convince our waste management team that more needs to/can be done to reduce green waste to be sent to landfill sites.

Since I started this project 7 months ago, I have brought home just over 30 kilograms of banana skins, orange peels etc. Considering we are just a small team, the amount of green waste that would otherwise have ended up in landfill sites is astonishing! I am hoping to have composting facilites set up at my workplace so I don't need to carry the waste on my bike everyday.

PV panels and weather

Since we had 12 PV panels installed on our roof about 10 months ago, I have been taking daily metre reading and put them on a spreadsheet for our record. I always enjoy collecting live data,  e.g. monthly water consumtions, electricity usage, gas reading etc and these readings are then recorded on a spreadsheet. Over the years I know exactly how much our utility usages are each month. Those data certainly help me to make an educated decision in terms of choosing the right company to supply our energy etc.

Now I have something more exciting to ready, DAILY solar electricity generation reading. Exciting is because it fluctuates on a daily basis hence you get different reading every day. So far the highest daily reading we had was in June with a whapping 19.3 kilo-watt hours. Considering our average daily electricity usage is 5.5 kw , 19.3 was not a bad one. The lowest reading was zero, unsurprisingly in December last year when the panels were liturally snowed under. The daily average so far is 7.5. Wonderful. I think every suitable roof in this country should be covered with PV panels, that may help us to generate more green energy.

Practice makes perfect

I am not confident in writing anything in English, except for compiling my shopping list ;-)
As the English phrase goes - 'practice makes perfect' - I think it will be a good idea if I write something regularly, something that interests me at least. The more I write the less I will fear of writing and who knows one day I may even be good at it...


The rain has stopped so I'd better be going to town and get ourselves a rabbit for lunch... on my bike of course.