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GOING GREEN AT ISLAND LEISURE CENTRE

The Heights Leisure Centre in Sandown is a greener place to get fit.

It has reduced its carbon emissions by 60 tonnes and its electrical energy consumption by 13%. That has led to an £11,000 reduction in fuel bills.  Part of the IW Council’s Eco Island pledge, high efficiency equipment’s been installed to make the difference.  Meanwhile a new combined heat and power unit at Medina Leisure Centre, Newport, saved 51 tonnes of CO2 in 2007.  That’s the equivalent to a forest of 7912 mature trees.