Sustainable environment

We're only too aware that Wireless World is supplying products that impact the environment on many levels, from manufacturing to freight, and of course it's not lost on us that a lot of what we sell is for use in motor vehicles. But that's probably all the more reason why we should try to do our bit for the environment.

Studies have shown that the negative environmental impact of an in-store purchase is 50 times that of an online purchase, and that the carbon emissions related to purchasing an item inside a store represents an increase of more than 15 times that of an online purchase, even after taking into account the emissions created during delivery for an online order. So your decision to purchase online - hopefully from us - is a good one.

But there are costs involved with online purchasing that may not have been counted in the above, such as the packaging materials, and the emissions involved with the electricity powering our online computers and office. So we are trying hard to work on this:

• We moved to an office that is 100% solar-powered during the day (yes, in the inner suburbs of Melbourne) and uses GreenPower accredited renewable energy the rest of the time. Any electricity we don't consume during the day gets fed back into the urban supply grid.

• We have changed to using 100% recycled and/or biodegradable packaging materials if at all possible - even environmentally-friendly bubblewrap made from recycled material.

• The high security, high performance SAS 70 Type II Certified Data Centre that hosts our website is certtified carbon neutral.

• And hopefully soon we will be able to arrange a carbon offset on every order.