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Eurostar, the high speed trains that whisk passengers from London to Paris at 186 miles per hour through the Channel Tunnel, launched a series of new green measures this week in a effort to reduce their carbon footprint by a quarter by 2012.

The service, which they already claim to be 10 times greener than traveling to Paris or Brussels by airplane, introduced a ten step eco-plan to reduce their emissions on November 14 – the same day as the service’s main hub switched from London’s Waterloo Station to the refurbished St Pancras Station.

The green schemes have included the introduction of e-tickets and bar code ticketing – which can be downloaded to cell phones to save paper; only recycled paper will be used where paper use in unavoidable; staff uniforms will be refurbished and recycled, train air-conditioning refrigerants will be replaced by less environmentally damaging chemicals (seven years before the EU law requiring them to do so kicks in), and all waste on board, and at stations, will be fully separated and recycled.You can find the entire article here http://aboutmyplanet.com/climate-cha...trains-greener