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15 ways to green your kitchen cleaning, equipment, maintenance, and consumables...
See how far you can go.
If you are looking for some simple quick wins or if you want to really up your game and start getting close to zero impact follow the easy pointers below:
- Most all washing up liquids are pretty much phosphate free now and most will have no toxics but if you are not sure select one of our MPD products from an economy 10% strength up to our super 28% grease cutter.
- If you are using traditional stocking net dishcloths, rags or those colour coded spongy type cloths change to using a colour coded Microfibre cloth that you can launder over 200 times. It not only seeks out the micro bacteria in the work tops and equipment but the durability means sustainability and less waste and massive savings.
- If you are using heavy duty degreasers with a real kick to them the chances are they are a risk to staff and the loca environment. Look at our natural M&A Orange Power degreaser made from a process involving orange peel and totally natural. Combine it with one of our fantastic non rust non bitting stainless steel ball scourers and you've got a killer team for cutting through grease with zero risk.
- Some new customers have complained that their previous suppliers spray sanitisers were causing them skin problems and were a little tough on the back of the throat. Well we don't want to get scientific but you should see some of the stuff that goes into them! Our M&A Sanitiser is a high grade certified terminal double bug killer and because only the most gentile natural ingredients are used it's only the bacteria that will feel it!.
- When you drain your oil no doubt you have the locals queuing for the fuel for their 4x4's now but the residue from cleaning and pans may also be convieniently poured into a Fat Trap and solidified as a feast for the little birdies. Not only will you feed the front of house but you'll have the birds lining up out the back too.
- Buy reusable tubs for freezing, recycle as much as you can, tell the meat man not to deliver in polysterene boxes or the fish monger, but returnable boxes. Insist on less packaging on delivered foods wherever possible and ask your cleaning supplier to supply in plastic drums that are the right grade for local recycling. Compost your waste food out the back if you have room and grow your own herbs if you have room for tubs or veg and fruit if you have more. And of course no ready made trigger products buy high grade concentrates and printed refillable triggers and save a packet.
- Avoid sachets and packets, put sauces, sugars and other condiments in washable dishes and pots and butter in pats, oils and vinegars in bottles and offer tissue napkins on the table or when serving don't allow free use it will lead to clumps being wasted.
- Buy low energy catering equipment. Many suppliers will provide you with facts and figures regards cosumption before you buy and you can weigh off purchase price against running costs over the life span to check pay back.
- Good design can mean energy saving. Where a piece of equipment is located can have an impact on how hard it has to work to maintain temperature. Think of the work flow as well, what is the menu and how will the food be put together from store to pass.
- Install water saving devices such as flow restricters on hand wash and a dishwasher that operates with optimum water use. Over head sprayers with lever operation and cut off.
- As well as procuring food locally as much as economics will allow make sure your cosumables are ethical. Ideally made in the UK and paper tissue should be chlorine free and 100% UK waste recycled, cleaning agents toxin and phosphate free and materials sustainable see 2.
- Buy hygiene polypropylene brush ware and wash it as instructed and use it many times over. It is very durable and will last a lot longer that wooden. From a broom to a deck scrubber and a nail brush to a sink brush it can be colour coded too for ultimate hygiene.
- Buy degradable polythene refuse sacks, food bags and freezer bags if not make sure the bags are recycled from post consumer waste.
- Check your FOG or your fats, oils and greases that go down your sink. There are some really good ways of treating it before it hits the drainage system. Treatment causes the water companies a real problem to prevent harm to the local environment and may cost you if traced back to you.
- Buy phosphate free green dishwashing detergents for your commercial washing machines. Some ingredients in traditional chemical products are harmful to aquatic life and cause problems with the local plant life M&A produce their own range of green products.
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