February 2012 - Page 2 of 2 - Envirosafe Solutions: Eco Friendly Liquid Products, Extreme Green, Environmental Cleaning Products

February 8, 2012January 17, 2012

Flooding in Queensland

Queensland is still reeling from the double hit it received earlier this year with Hurricane Yasi and incredibly massive flooding. As with all victims who are still recovering from a massive catastrophe like this for some time afterward, they can feel as if the excitement and the help have worn off and that they are left to fend for themselves. In addition to this, frustration is quite high in the hearts of Queenslanders who felt that they should be back on their feet by now and returning to their normal daily lives. The Salvation Army is helping so many survivors cope with initial feelings of high irritation at the slowness of their own steady but gradually moving progress. Survivors are given good counseling, which helps when they are surrounded by incomplete lives and remaining pictures and memories of good lives which they have lost. In addition to this, victims are given free motivational and inspirational DVDs which depict other survivors of catastrophes who lost loved ones at crucial and important moments in their lives and still pulled through and put their lives back together. Now that rescue efforts and rebuilding efforts are running at full pace and now that citizens are as yet unable to recapture the lives they once had, the best way to pass the time in between these two goals is to improve and maintain community morale. Morale can be the deciding factor between quick and hardy success and failing and struggling to get back on your feet.

Morale is key in many important parts of your life. Without it, you may physically and emotionally be capable of accomplishing tasks, but you don’t really believe that you can. In fact, morale has contributed to incredibly impossible self rescue stories from individuals who just would not give in and would not allow themselves to become victims. When looking at the current condition of our planet and feeling even the slightest bit of fear for our future on this earth, it can become quite easy to lose morale. However, innovative, eco friendly, low emission companies are being created and are thriving because of visionaries who refuse to see anything else but hope. Call Envirosafe Solutions today to order eco friendly glue remover, rubber remover or ice break: (+61) 1300 88 90 70.

http://www.smh.com.au/environment/weather/floodhit-queenslanders-urged-to-seek-help-20111205-1odu1.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=DTN+Australia:

February 7, 2012January 17, 2012

Droughts and Floods Affect Women First

In a majority of developing countries, women are responsible for meeting household needs, providing water, and watering and irrigating their small farmlands over which they have control. Unlike men in these countries, women do not always have access to information and resources which will help them meet climate and environmental changes. The United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women seeks to empower women and implement change by making their communities more aware of their lack of resources and how their proper stewardship of those resources would bring in more income and more growth in their land.

Many times, in these developing countries, women are left completely out of the decision making process, even though they are responsible for running and maintaining their households and keeping food on the table for their children. Agricultural development and preparedness for changes in climate or their environment should be a big part of their lives, and the UNEGEEW is part of that solution. When communities are informed of how they can exploit these wonderful female resources and the knowledge and expertise which these women possess, they can learn and use gender equality to their own advantage. In this way, ecological and environmental issues sometimes cross paths with women’s rights issues. Both genders should be free to determine how to appropriately prepare for flooding or drought conditions. However, when around two thirds of the illiterate adulthood in developing countries are women, and the ability to read is part of the global change and preparedness for emergency conditions, the gender inequality becomes glaringly obvious. When these women are able to match their knowledge of alternative methods of crop and food protection with the ability to read and write, as well as the ability to determine decisions made in their own community, they enable everyone, both men and women, to protect their assets, their agricultural development, and their water supplies during accidents or negative circumstances caused by nature. While these women are still held back from their full potential, these communities are not reaping the full benefit of their expertise. And that is costly.

Envirosafe Solutions offers eco friendly Soil Wetta and dust suppressant for your biodegradable agricultural needs. We ship in a variety of volumes. Call us today: (+61) 1300 88 90 70.

http://www.unwomen.org/focus-areas/climate-change-and-the-environment/

February 6, 2012January 13, 2012

Creating Your Own Garden Compost

Creating your own garden compost is a wonderful way to add to your environment, maintain eco friendly viability and to continue sustainability on our planet. In a recent article by Bonnie Grant, she describes how compost is a living organism which contains both nutrition and aeration. You must be very careful in maintaining this good supplementation to your garden. Not many gardeners take composting seriously, but it must be remembered that refined, sifted or thinned soil of any kind contains less bacteria, fewer organisms, and less decomposition. It is this rotting, moisture, decay, and breakdown of organic material which adds nutrition and “spices” to the food of the plant. The best compost provides the best food for your plants. This is why it is such a good idea to reuse unprocessed plant materials and return them to the ground in the agricultural industry. All breakdown of organic matter is beneficial to your crops, but breakdown of specific plants will return that same plant nutrition to the ground to help fuel the next crop of the same or similar plants. The entire process is highly self sufficient and, more importantly, it uses all parts of the organic decay in the growth process. Nothing is wasted or un-reusable, which is the entire basis for our current eco friendly movement.

Creating your own garden compost can be as simple as turning your composter over every day and adding all of your kitchen scraps to the compost in order to keep a balanced salad of decay, or it can be as complex as planning what chemistry you want to feed your plants or what will go best with them, then planning what type of decay and organic materials should be in your compost, putting in the appropriate worms to facilitate the decomposition, and even purchasing a special composter which will keep everything moist but still aerated and loose at all times. Whether it is for your own garden, for a city-wide flower operation, or for something a bit more widespread, decay needs to be rich and varied, and the soil should be both loose and moist. It is only with the correct amount of moisture that decay can be achieved.

Envirosafe Solutions offers Soil Wetta and dust suppressant for your agricultural or gardening needs, and all of our products are eco friendly. Call us today: (+61) 1300 88 90 70.

http://www.gardeningknowhow.com/composting-basics/storing-compost.htm

February 3, 2012January 13, 2012

Carbon Emissions Temporarily Increase in U.K.

In the U.K., household energy bills may rise in the near future, as the big six energy suppliers are receiving government subsidies for gas power, and as the alternative energy sources had their government subsidies cut in half. This may put the goal of a cleaner, greener U.K. on hold for a few more months or years. One of the reasons why the government is withdrawing funding for wind and solar energy and sinking it back into petroleum based energy is that the energy plants for gas power only take 18 months to build. Ministers are concerned that quite a few coal fired power plants will be shut down and that there will be a gap between the need for energy and the actual amount of electricity available. The gas power plants which only take 18 months to build will be springing up all around the country in time for any energy needs which should arise, and of course not neglecting the government’s goal to continue building solar and wind powered energy and to be cleaner in the future. While the projected goals of building alternative fuel sites are now delayed, they are not dismissed and will simply be pushed back and set behind the goal of making sure that enough energy is quickly made available.

Gas power stations are also attempting to lobby as alternative fuel sources, since gas emissions only produce one half of the carbon footprint that coal fire plants produce. This attempt, however, is being ridiculed by both environmentalist groups and non-ecologically aware groups and it may be only be successful insofar as the plants are still easy and quick to set up. After all, 18 months is not very long and it would bridge the gap between potential needs and current supply of energy. It is an interesting development which can be looked at from many different angles.

In the meantime, Envirosafe Solutions offers heavy duty cleaner/degreaser, fuel treatments and corrosion treatments which are all environmentally safe and biodegradable. While energy concerns are being dealt with, we can make sure that your home and office and jobsites are all clean and safe with earth friendly products. Call us today: (+61) 1300 88 90 70.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/dec/04/renewableenergy-energy-industry?CMP=twt_fd

February 2, 2012January 13, 2012

Below Par Eco Friendly Services

We have all been burned by trying out a new product which claims to be both effective and environmentally friendly and which is not effective at all. Unfortunately, in the efforts to be eco friendly adopted during the 90’s, we have grown in knowledge of product development, but not necessarily that fast. For this reason, something known as “greenwashing” has become the public norm, although it is quickly falling into social condemnation because of its reputation. Greenwashing means that a company either pretends that their product or service is eco friendly when it is not, or when a company sells technically environmentally friendly products or services, but those which are also very ineffective in doing the job which they were bought to do. Being correctly eco friendly means that you have to have a product or service which does actually protect our earth, is actually biodegradable and sustainable, and which does actually fully perform the task which it is advertised to perform. Any letdown of these three standards, and your “green” company is “greenwashing” their services. Unfortunately, enough of us have been burned by this false advertising that we tend to think of ecologically safe services or products as not being very effective or reliable or accurate at all, and of harsh chemical solutions as being a necessary evil in taking care of our daily tasks. So is there a way around this problem? Indeed, there is.

One of the best ways you can check a company out is to investigate their products and make sure, before you buy, that your purchase comes with a money back guarantee. If it does not and you are stuck with your wholesale purchase of ineffective cleaning products or fuel treatments, then that is a waste of your money and a poor way of doing business on their part. Avoid “greenwashing,” and check out our site to see all of the many hand cleaners, disinfectants, and corrosion treatments which we have available, along with our 30 day money back guarantee on your purchase. We would love to hear from you. Call us today: (+61) 1300 88 90 70.

http://getgrowingforbusiness.scotiabank.com/blog/how-promote-your-eco-friendly-business

February 1, 2012January 13, 2012

Safety for Children in the Hotel/Hospitality Industry

If your customers are your most prized possession, and they should be, you can bet that their children are their most prized possession. This is why you should pay special attention to the cleaning products you use in your hotel or restaurant or family resort. We may know that certain surfaces, such as the underside of tables and the bathroom floor, are off limit to touch, but our little ones love to explore and touch and taste everything. Not only could they be exposed to unclean or germ-ridden areas, but they could also come in contact with residue from harsh chemical solvents and cleaners. Envirosafe Solutions offers environmentally friendly liquids for your hotel or hospitality needs.

Let’s face it: children are likely to crawl around on the floor, lick the side of the bathtub or bathroom wall, or play with their toys in creative areas which are normally off limit to adults. Your cleaning staff at your hospitality business must keep every nook and cranny spotless for this reason. Unfortunately, they may be using acidic disinfectants or harsh degreasers and this can be dangerous to the health of children who come in contact with even a small amount of left over residue. Isn’t it crucial that you only use child-safe, eco friendly cleaning products in your business?

Sometimes, areas of a hotel or spa are off limits to children. They can still obtain chemicals, not thinking anything of the danger, from your housekeeping or cleaning service when your employees make their rounds. Children often like to experiment with different colors and fluids, so the bottles on a cleaning cart may appear innocent enough to their young eyes. Make sure that they are innocent enough by only using Extreme Green glass cleaner, rust remover, degreaser, laundry products, toilet bowl cleaner, and disinfectants. We carry a wide range of housekeeping supplies which are safe, eco friendly, and will not have long term health effects on the children of your customers. We are ideal for the hotel and hospitality industries because we carry everything from bathroom and glass cleaners to paint and crayon removers.

Children are our future. Reducing waste on our planet is also part of our future. Keep both resources safe and protected by calling Envirosafe Solutions today, and asking us about our products for the hospitality industry: (+61) 1300 88 90 70.

“Analyzing exposure of school children to accidental releases of hazardous substances.” National Center for Biotechnology Information. N.p., n.d. Web. 23 Oct. 2011. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11571606.