Small businesses in Noosa are making some loud noises when it comes to sustainability.
Beach Massage business owner Amanda Obara said, “We may be small in Noosa but we are many and we have the potential to collectively make a big impact.”
Sustainability consultant Amanda Pummer, of Sustainable Happiness, said that Ms Obara’s businesses was likely to be the first massage businesses in Noosa shire to become carbon neutral.
Climate neutrality means you have reduced your climate impact to net zero.
Ms Pummer said that “This is great step and positions beach massage and massageandwellbeing.com as leading the way in the tourism and hospitality and health sector area.“
“We hope to use her experience as a role model for the region.”
But Ms Obara said that it wasn’t something that she leapt into. Amanda said for a long time the business hesitated to even look into Carbon Neutral practices.
“We thought it would be a big step, that it would be expensive and it would take time away from running the business,“ she said.
“We found that just by going through the process that there is a sustainable solution for everything.
“Even if it’s just one item at a time, that makes it doable.”
Sustainability consultant Ms Pummer, said that “Enhancing environmental sustainability, through reducing carbon emissions, curtailing waste, and managing resources efficiently, will deliver better outcomes for customers and provide broader social and economic benefits.”
The Carbon Neutral report showed that beach massage was able to carbon offset its entire carbon emission production for the base year in 2020 and achieve carbon neutrality.
“We feel a lot better know that we’re contributing much less to environmental pollution and it’s already saving us money,“ Ms Obara said.
