Time to improve.

Our business is continuing to be impacted upon by the Padarn Lake algae outbreak which has meant we have decided to re-evaluate the cleaning products used in our centre and the damage they have on the environment we work in. In our environmental statement we say that although we do not always get it right first time, as we educate ourselves we will make improvements as we can. As a result we have found an important area in which to make changes.

In an effort to reduce our output of harmful cleaning agents we are now trialling different cleaning products from ECOVER and ECOLEAF. We have also found that although these products seem more expensive, with reasonable planning; bulk buying, reusing containers and monitoring the amounts used to ensure correct dilution for the job, prices can be relatively comparable; it just takes a bit more effort. In thinking through our practices we have found that we should reduce the road miles for products to the centre because we can buy in bulk and we reduce our waste by reusing the dispensing containers, in theory one step better than recycling.