Plastic Waste Reduced by 98% for Major Fashion Brand
Background
March 2020. The UK went into a broad lockdown as a result of rising COVID -19 cases, meaning thousands of people had no option but to stay at home.
Online purchases soared with extra fulfilment staff needed to manage the demand and extra cleaning and hygiene measures to keep them safe. As companies scrambled to keep sites Covid-secure, product demand overtook availability, costs rose dramatically and sustainability went to the wind.
During this period Knighton Janitorial was able to reduce the amount of chemical being used by a distribution centre for a major fashion brand by 50%, decrease single use plastic consumption by 98% and ensure that surfaces were still being cleaned to an anti-viral standard.
In a post Covid world, inflated use of chemicals and the associated environmental impacts this is having such as plastic waste is an issue that needs a solution.
Challenge
The client was experiencing a huge increase in the use of chemical products which was causing an equivalent increase in costs and plastic waste. The challenge was to reduce this large product consumption whilst ensuring the site remained Covid-secure.
Solution
Knighton Janitorial's answer was to provide the Evans e:dose system; a super concentrated chemical dosing system which offers solutions for surface sanitising, washroom cleaning, hard surface cleaning and floor cleaning. Per month the client achieved:
A whopping 98% reduction in single use plastics going to landfill.
In excess of 50% less chemical used overall across the site.
A 70% reduction in overall costs.
The Product
The e:dose super concentrate chemical dosing system has multiple indisputable benefits for facilities management, health and safety, budget control and environmental impact.
Chemical usage
- 1 litre of the super concentrate chemical product will make 100 x trigger spray bottles or 50 x 5 litre diluted buckets.
- Handy dosing bottles or wall mounted chemical dosing systems ensure accurate dosing, every time.
- Surface sanitising, hard surface cleaning, floors and heavy-duty cleaning, washroom cleaning and food safe catering cleaning solutions are available with the system.
Plastic waste
- 100 ‘ready to use’ disposable plastic trigger spray bottles can be replaced with 1 x 1 litre plastic container of e:dose concentrate and 1 x plastic trigger spray refill bottle.
- The measured dosing system will reduce usage and subsequent plastic packaging waste.
- Printed, high quality trigger spray bottles help ensure an ongoing sustainable option.
Health and safety
- The e:dose system has a clear colour coded system and multi-lingual instructions printed direct to the application bottles.
- A full support package comes with the system, including wall charts, posters and operational training and certification.
- Multiple controlled dosing options from handy 1 litre measured dosing bottles through to a plumbed in dosing system, ensuring your operators get the right mix every time and reducing the risk of over dosing or cross contamination.
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