Time to Change www.t2c.org.uk is on a mission to replace the UK’s oldest fridges. We want to encourage the replacement of 15.4 million old appliances in the UK that are needlessly wasting energy. Amazingly, if we replaced all large domestic appliances with energy efficient ones we would provide savings of up to 3.6 TWh – the equivalent amount of electricity needed to power over 1 million UK homes for an entire year!

The UK’s Oldest Working Fridge competition on our website highlights these aims. We are trying to pension off the oldest fridge presenting the owner of this guzzler with a brand new A+ or A++ model. Of course the winner’s old machine will be recycled. In fact on average 80% of the components and materials used in major appliances are now recycled. As well as the £6.6 billion that manufacturers have spent on developing energy efficient technology in the last decade they also have helped to finance processing facilities nationwide to ensure safe, eco-friendly disposal, under the WEEE (Waste Electrical and Electronics Equipment) Directive. There is more about this on www.t2c.org.uk/myths.html

You can enter this competition online but it closes on 28th February so hurry up if you want the chance to discover the wonders of energy efficient technology.

And if you’re not harbouring Britain’s oldest relic but own one that is pretty old -10 or more years – it is well worth checking out the Time to Change savings calculator. This handy calculator allows you to key in the age of your old fridge or washing machine to instantly pull up the monetary, CO2, water and electricity savings you could make if you install an equivalent, high efficiency model. Saving over £45 a year and more than £200 over 5 years and reducing your home’s carbon emissions by 200 kg are just some of the impressive benefits.

Please do take a look at www.t2c.org.uk – where we also bust the jargon on the newest eco-features of appliances, explain energy labelling, talk about other green appliances and dispel some of the most common myths – and let us know what you think.