Back in September, Matt Harris attended a waste awareness course at Bywaters, who provide recycling and resource management services. One of Matt’s fellow attendees that day was Yousuf Jamil, an Environmental Assessor and UK-based environmentalist. Over the last few weeks, Yousuf kindly agreed to prepare a guest post for The Organised Cleaner regarding sustainability and […]
October 24, 2012
Both Matt Harris and I have been canvasing a cleaning publication called Tomorrow’s Cleaning via twitter to spread the word about sustainable cleaning and have a regular content about the sustainable cleaning industry in the magazine. At the moment, Tomorrow’s Cleaning is the only publication that has a dedicated sustainable cleaning supplement, which is issued […]
October 22, 2012
In the fourth and final part our this series on waste awareness, I’ll briefly cover the legal, health & safety and environmental aspects of waste. If you’ve been following this series you’ll already have read up on the definition of waste (Part 1 – What is Waste?), the waste hierarchy (Part 2 – Waste Minimisation) […]
October 9, 2012
I’ve already helped define what waste is in Part 1 (What is Waste) and Part 2 of the series covered avoiding the production of waste (Waste Minimisation) as part of this series. In the third of my four-part series on waste awareness, I’m going to set out information on the disposal of waste, which is the very […]
September 30, 2012
Following on from the first part of this four part series on waste awareness (Part 1 – What is Waste?), I thought it useful to provide some information on the waste hierarchy and how your business (or your home) can go about reducing the amount of waste it produces. Waste can be expensive to manage […]
September 20, 2012
As a business owner or operator, can you honestly answer this question? If no, don’t fret! Over the few weeks I’ll be posting a four part series on waste awareness. This all stemmed from our director Matt Harris attending a waste awareness course last week. He brought back some interesting notes and a couple of […]
August 21, 2012
Ok Ok, I have to admit that I got sucked into the Olympics BIG TIME hence not having posted anything for the last three weeks (2 weeks for the Olympics and 1 week suffering from Post-Olympic Depression). Didn’t TeamGB do well, so proud to be British and everything that we achieved from the opening ceremony to […]
November 7, 2012
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