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Why use local charcoal ?

There are many reasons to choose to use Local Charcoal in preference to imported charcoal and other barbecue fuels

Reduce Global Warming


Local charcoal is produced, delivered and utilised locally in the UK. The alternative of imported charcoal requires long-haul global transportation which has been shown to increase fossil fuel consumption by over 85%.

Britain's barbecues burn approximately 60,000 tonnes of charcoal a year. But almost nine out of every ten bags of charcoal are imported. Most of this imported charcoal comes from environmentally sensitive areas or endangered forests in West Africa, South East Asia and South America.

The volumes and distances are huge requiring huge fossil fuel consumption to power the transportation, which in turn means large CO2 emissions fuelling increased global warming. It may even be marked FSC certified, but how can it be environmentally friendly if it is transported halfway around the world?