Sustainability
Sustainability & Macroom Tool Hire and Sales
Economically
Thanks to you, our loyal customers and a bit of hard work, we’re still in business. Hiring tools & equipment offers an easy alternative to purchasing in the short or long term. It omits maintenance, storage, insurance and calibration costs as well as the cost associated with idle tools. Hiring offers an inexpensive way to test new products, with the option to ‘buy’ always available. When you hire or buy equipment from us you also get our expertise and user-guidance.
Socially
We are a family run business contributing to the local economy and we employ local staff. In 2014 we provided 5 transition year positions this year, and are involved in local initiatives such as Macroom Tidy Towns, Macroom-E and The Lee Valley Business Networking group. In 2014 we sponsored several local clubs, events and charities including:
- Saint Vincent de Paul
- Cork Ladies Senior Football Club
- Coachford Autumn Festival
- Ballyvourney Tidy Towns,
- Munster Car Club / Moonraker
- Macroom Golf Club
- Muinefluich National School
- Aghabullogue Point to Point
- The Munster Car Club
- Ballyvourney Run
- Coachford Autumn Festival
- De la Salle Secondary School, Macroom – Raffle Sponsorship
- Macroom Tidy Towns
- Movemeber
Environmentally
The Tool Hire strives to reduce, reuse, recycle wherever possible, at the heart of our business we offer hiring and repair services, saving money and reducing waste. We recycle wherever possible and look for environmentally friendly alternatives wherever available, both in the running of the business and the equipment.
Further Steps:
- Becoming an agent for Aspen Fuels – When you use Aspen alkylate petrol, you can be sure that you are making a great choice, both regarding your health and our environment.
- All of our Scrap Metal is collected and recycled.
- All of our Cardboard is collected and recycled by KWD Recycling
- We are currently assessing the best option for recycling or reusing our Waste Oils
Reduce
All of our products that we get in we order in bulk using minimal packaging, We reduce our carbon footprint by pushing our battery operated machinery more than petrol for our sales and hire department, using battery operated equipment better for you as it is lighter in weight and for the environment as it reduces harmful emissions, it is also much easier and quicker to use battery operated equipment than petrol as with the battery its just press a button and away you go whereas for petrol you must make sure you have enough petrol in the tank all the time and you must pull the pull cord and it doesn’t always go first try so in the long run it is much more time efficient to be using battery over petrol in most cases.
Reuse
We here at Macroom Tool Hire love to keep in the environmental trend as much as we can with all the machines that come in to us here for repair sometimes there can be a machine that is just unrepairable which is sad to see but at times it happens and if that machine is no longer in need from its owner we gladly use it rather than scrap it there are so many things to be used from old machinery and we always find a use for them nothing in our store goes to waste unless we have everything we can get from it first, We also reuse our machinery all the time using our hiring facility where a customer can hire out a machine to see what it is like before they may plan on purchasing said item.
Recycle
As mentioned briefly above all our recycling gets collected by KWD Recycling we have 3 big bins just for recycling alone and we go through them fast as all our items come in recyclable packaging and we ensure that before ordering any product, We have recycling bins all around our shop and workshop for items such as batteries bulbs and scrap metal and parts that can be reused of course we will avail of those.