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Environment
We have taken care and consideration in selecting our product range.
Working with companies who have made it their focus to provide products that are environmentally responsible.
Because our products are used 7 days per week, 365 days of the year the potential environmental benefits are huge.
In 10 years time, these products will be the industry standard. But why wait until then?
On this page we have included statements from our suppliers about the enviromental credentials of their respective products.
Should you have any other questions, please do not hesitate to contact us.
Cleaning chemicals wheezing link?
Exposure to cleaning products while in the womb could be linked to persistent wheezing in young children, University of Bristol research suggests.
Experts looked at families' use of a range of products such as bleach, paint stripper and carpet cleaners.
Children born into the 10% of families which used these products the most were twice as likely to suffer from wheezing as those who used the least.
The study of 14,000 children from birth is published in the journal Thorax.
The researchers said, while their study suggested a link between prenatal exposure and wheezing, exposure after birth could also be a factor.
Further research is under way to look for physiological changes in the children's lungs which would indicate the effect had occurred while they were in the womb.
Wheezing can be a sign a child will go on to develop asthma.
The study, which is part of the University of Bristol's Children of the 90s research, involved 7,019 families.
Pregnant women were asked how often they used common household cleaning products.
The 11 most common were disinfectant (used by 87.4%), bleach (84.8%), carpet cleaner (35.8%), window cleaner (60.5%), dry cleaning fluid (5.4%), aerosols (71.7%), turpentine/white spirit (22.6%), air fresheners - spray, stick or aerosol (68%), paint stripper (5.5%) , paint or varnish (32.9%) and pesticides/insecticides (21.2%).
The researchers then calculated the total chemical burden for each family, depending on how often they used each product - then they compared it with each mother's report on whether her child had experienced wheezing.
The Nordic Swan Label
Why use an eco-label?
·Guaranteed environmentally friendly products
·One of the many signs that Metsä Tissue is a company that takes its environmental work seriously
·Peace of mind for the end customer
·Places demands on manufacturers wishing to promote an environmental profile
The Swan Label aims:
·To limit environmental damage by promoting products that have the lowest possible impact on nature
·To make sure the Nordic eco-label criteria applies to all tissue papers
The Swan Label criteria guarantees:
·Ecologically sustainable forest management
·Resource savings
·Low environmental burden in production
·Low waste generation
·Product quality in line with product safety laws
The Swan Label requirements recommend:
·Timber from certified forests
·Use of production chemicals that consider the environment
·Less discharge of phosphorus and acidifying substances
·Lower emissions of sulphur and nitrogen oxide into the air
·Low energy consumption
·Pre-separation of waste
·Quality and environmental safety
ETHICAL and ENVIRONMENTAL POLICIES
Bio-D is an independent, family-owned, ethically motivated company, dedicated to promoting the use of hypoallergenic, environmentally responsible detergents that have a minimum impact on the ecosystem both in their use and in their manufacturing process. Where possible, all raw materials are plant-derived and are obtained from renewable sources.
We operate a strict policy whereby none of our raw materials or finished products are tested on animals. We have a fixed cut-off date of 1988. All raw materials are free from genetically modified ingredients; animal by-products and we are subject to scrutiny and approval by The Vegan Society, Naturewatch Trust, BUAV and The World Wildlife Foundation.
All bottles, containers and packaging contain optimum levels of re-cycled materials and are themselves re-cyclable.
Many of the ingredients contained in conventional household cleaners, detergents and soaps are known to have detrimental and damaging effects on the environment and humankind. A passage from the research booklet, "Water Quality in Catchment Ecosystems" by A.M.Gower, reads…"of the pharmaceutical products, detergents, cosmetics and other similar domestic products and their metabolites (ingredients), greater quantities are discharged into sewers from domestic premises than from the premises manufacturing them."
What this statement means in simple language is that domestic pollution causes more damage to the environment than industrial pollution !!
