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Airdri sponsors Loo of the Year
Airdri, an innovator in warm air hand dryers, will again sponsor the Loo of the Year Awards and ceremony, to be held on 2 December 2011.
The Loo of the Year Awards help recognise those that strive towards providing quality in away from home toilets, and Airdri’s warm air dryers suit many away from home washrooms.
“This is our third year sponsoring the awards,” said John Curzon, Airdri’s general manager. “It’s great to be able to support this worthy cause in encouraging improved standards in away from home toilets.”
Mike Bone, British Toilet Association director, said: “We are delighted that Airdri will be a sponsor of the 2011 Loo of the Year Awards. This is the third successive year that Airdri has supported the awards which are a showcase for the very best 'away from home' toilets and their suppliers.”
www.airdri.com
Environemental care with closed loop recycling
Peter Grant Papers is looking after the environment by providing closed loop recycling to West Mercia Supplies. Using this process, Peter Grant Papers will collect all West Mercia Supplies’ waste paper when it delivers its away from home paper requirements.
West Mercia Supplies is owned by four local authorities - Worcestershire County Council, Hereford County Council, Shropshire County Council and Telford & Wrekin Council - who came together to improve their buying power and secure better deals for their customers, which include schools, colleges and other institutions. It currently sources blue and green inter-fold towels, toilet tissue, centre-feed rolls and hygiene rolls from Peter Grant Papers.
Phil d’Arcy, national account manager at Peter Grant Papers, said: “We have developed closed loop recycling to both improve the service we offer to organisations like West Mercia Supplies and to enhance our care for the environment. As with many organisations, despite its best efforts, West Mercia Supplies generates waste paper and we now, at the same time as delivering their away from home paper supplies, collect the waste paper and recycle it within our paper mill. Across our business we do all we can to minimise the road miles done by lorries that are not full. This contract helps us make sure all our lorries are full, and for West Mercia Supplies we are taking away the problem of disposing of their waste paper.”
Mike Philips, managing director of West Mercia Supplies, said: “We obviously do all we can to minimise waste paper but as with any organisation we cannot eliminate it completely. For example, we have to print large product catalogues for our customers outlining all the products they can source from us and it is impossible to cost- effectively print the precise number we need. Disposing of the excess can be difficult and expensive. This arrangement with Peter Grant Papers removes the problem for us and gives us the certainty that the paper is being recycled.”
Green King
Delphis Eco was invited to exhibit at the ‘Start Growing’ event in the gardens of Clarence House and Lancaster House from 27 to 31 July 2011. Start is an initiative by The Prince's Charities Foundation to promote and celebrate sustainable living.
In line with its policy to ‘reduce, re-use and recycle’ Delphis promoted sustainable household living by launching its innovative, no fuss chemical dispensing offering. Customised for garden centres, schools and retail outlets, this technology gives customers accessibility to ecological EU Ecolabel concentrated cleaning solutions that do not have a green premium.
The Start Growing event, open to the general public, coincided with two related Start events - an eco-rally on The Mall and a pop-up restaurant at Lancaster House featuring an organic menu by Jamie Grainger-Smith.
Five exciting design innovations were on display from The Earth Awards: the leading global awards competition dedicated to identifying viable designs for a more sustainable future. The King of Malaysia is the Patron of the Earth Awards and Mark Jankovich, CEO of Delphis Eco, welcomed both King Sultan Mizan Zainal Abidin and Queen Nur Zahirah onto the Delphis Eco stand to discuss its sustainable living plan.
www.delphiseco.com
Burnisher goes on safari
The white lions and rhinos that surround Spring Grove House, the banqueting suite set in the grounds of West Midlands Safari Park, have been joined by a Truvox Orbis cordless burnisher. Having recently reopened after a £5 million rebuild following a devastating fire nearly five years ago, the job of keeping a fine marble black and white chequer-board floor in its entrance hall at its best has been passed to the Orbis cordless burnisher.
To maintain a full high gloss on the marble floor, while carrying out maintenance during daylight hours, the management of West Midlands Safari Park purchased one of the recently introduced Truvox Orbis UHS cordless burnishers through Janitorial Direct in nearby Kidderminster.
“The Truvox Orbis UHS delivers a great finish and is superb for our needs,” said Paul Hewesterne, park services manager at Spring Grove House. “The entrance hall gets more traffic than you would expect with all the conferences we host during the week, weddings at the weekends, and everybody coming to the restaurant. It takes a good machine to maintain a high gloss despite all that.”
www.truvox.com
A sustainable choice is in your hands
A major campaign to demonstrate the importance of sustainability in today’s workplace and how it can benefit us all is being launched by Tork manufacturer SCA. ‘A sustainable choice is in your hands’ will emphasise how a supplier’s sustainability code can have a knock-on effect on all other companies in the supply chain.
“By choosing sustainable partners to work with, companies can reinforce their own responsible image which will help to improve their brand positioning,” said SCA UK and Ireland marketing manager Jacqui Dilley. “By doing business with SCA and Tork, for example, our distributors can improve their own sustainability status - which will in turn help them to enhance the sustainability of their customers.”
Tork manufacturer SCA is globally recognised as a sustainability leader. In April the company was named one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies by the Ethisphere Institute in New York for a fourth consecutive year. Hundreds of companies were assessed before the final list of 110 companies was compiled. These were required to demonstrate leading ethics and compliance programmes, particularly compared to those of their industry peers.
SCA also has a rolling programme of gaining EU Ecolabelling on Tork products. So far more than 80 products have been accredited with the label including the Tork Advanced Hand Towel Roll and the entire range of Tork interfold dispenser napkins.
“SCA and the Tork brand are committed to developing product solutions that improve the quality of life while minimising our impact on the environment and maximising our social and economic contribution to the community,” said Dilley. “Our commitment is not just to reducing the environmental impact within our own business - but also to enable our customers and end-users to act responsibly by providing appropriate hygiene solutions that enable people to use natural resources wisely. By working together with distributors, customers and end-users we can build a better future together, since the choices we all make today will help shape a better world tomorrow.”
The ‘A sustainable choice is in your hands’ campaign will include posters, mugs and a booklet that will be available to all distributors. This will contain key facts on sustainability that distributor reps can use as ‘talking points’ when going in to see a customer.
www.tork.co.uk
‘Setting the trend’ with River Island
Fashion retailer River Island recently extended its contract with OCS for cleaning and window cleaning services for an additional two years.
The business covers 84 of the client’s UK mainland high street stores, as well as another 24 stores in the Republic of Ireland. Bi-annual high level cleaning of selected stores and post-refurbishment cleaning are included in the OCS service. A strong relationship with the client and a high level of contract efficiency secured the continued partnership with OCS.
“We are delighted to continue to provide a range of cleaning services to River Island,” said OCS client services director Andrew Mortimer. “We aim to provide the highest standards of support to the client, allowing them to concentrate their core business.”
www.ocs.co.uk
