Transcript Diapositive 1 - Services SETA

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World leaders in natural
cleaning
Amanda Colling
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Presentation Agenda
Triple Bottom Line?
What is Green?
Technical Discussion:
Chemicals and their environmental impact
Chemicals and their health implications
Enzymes vs Bacteria
Bottled Water and Environmental Impact
Triple Bottom Line
TBL or 3BL
People, Planet, Profit
Canniballs with Forks: the Triple bottom Line of
21st Centrury - John Elkington 1998
Triple bottom line accounting means expanding
the traditional reporting framework to take into
account ecological and social performance in
addition to financial performance
Business sustainability, first defined by the
Brundtland Commission of the United Nations in
1987
Green Claims
Marketing response to consumers’ increasing interest
in protecting the environment.
What do green claims really mean?
deceptive acts or practices?
Broad or vague
Substantiated by competent & reliable evidence of entire product’s
complete break down & return to nature
Product or package’s ability to degrade in the environment
where it is customarily disposed; and
The rate and extent of degradation.
International Standard – 60% in 28 days
(OECD 301)
Innu-Science Standard – 90% in 14 days
Why Green your
Cleaning Products?
Environmental & Health Concerns
Cleaning products are:
released to environment
normal use
evaporation of volatile organic compounds (VOC)
rinsing down drain.
exposed to concentrated cleaning products.
Replacement for Phosphates
Nonylphenol ethoxylates (NPE’s) common surfactant
ingredient in cleaners – substitute for phosphates - laboratory
studies - “endocrine disrupter” causing adverse reproductive
effect – testicular, breast & prostate cancer & fertility
problems
The bi-products of NPE are 10 x more toxic
Green Cleaners have a bad name
This is why ....
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Environmental Programmes
Stringency Levels
Comparison
The Ecologo/Greenseal Certified
Green Products Seal
Standard only 60% primary biodegradability
in 28 days
Products have to contain less than 10% VOC
(Volatile Organic Compounds) of their weight
Products with accepted pH levels between 3
and 11
Products can contain up to 1% of EDTA
(ethylendiamin- tetra acetic acid-tetrasodium
salt) and up to 5% of NTA (nitril triacetic acidtrisodium salt)
Lower health risks but accepts 'important
health risks' symbols on products
Many products for one task
Low dilution rates (1: 10 to 1: 100)
Use costs similar to chemistry
Equals international health and environment
standards but NOT users' performance
expectations
How does it effect you?
• Thousands of untested chemicals used
in everyday cleaning products,
cosmetics, personal care products, etc.
• 8 seconds after exposure to chemical
product evidence in blood stream
• Fertility, cancer, ...........................
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Bacteria Based Products –
Nature’s Own cleaners
Revolutionised Cleaning
Cleaning is no longer an action
It is a process..........
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U-Trap Urinal
Urinal – Hard Chemicals used
Urinal – Bacteria Based
Before / After
Ceramic
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Difference between Bacteria and Enzymes
Enzymes
• End product
• Can’t reproduce or multiply
• No living
• Specific function
Bacteria
• Produces Enzymes
• Multiplies
• Living Organism
• Multiple species – Multi
tasks
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Cleaning products is just the start
Going Green is a lifestyle....
What else?
Thirsty?
Bottled Water
Consumed in 2004
26,0000,0000,0000
litres
of water bottled in North America
26,000,000,000 litres, that is almost 28,000,000,000 of
plastic bottles in one year…
… 86% were found as litter waste
26,000,000,000 litres mean that…
17,000,000 oil barrels were used to manufacture
these bottles
Sufficient oil to make 100,000 cars go for a year
26,000,000,000 litres of bottled water also mean…
2,500,000 tons of carbon dioxide emitted during
the manufacture of these bottles
Pacific Ocean in 2004
Los Angeles
Makes you think does it not? …
Thank You for the opportunity …
Questions?