Mary G’s is a large and popular destination in Lismore, holding many events and particularly well populated by the local university students. After much hardship during the floods of 2022, the town is rejuvenating and investing to enhance the offering for tourists and locals.
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Rosslyn Hill Mining’s Paroo Station Lead Mine is an open cut lead carbonate mine located 900kms north west of Perth.
The existing mine covers 450 Ha and hosts a 1.7m tonne per annum primary crusher, mill and flotation plant, management offices and a village with accommodation and facilities for 170 employees.
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Learn how a local sporting venue resolved urinal odours and blockages using microbial solutions. Download the case study to learn more.
Discover the secret weapon Trafford Centre employs to banish urinal smells and provide outstanding amenities for its visitors.
Struvite, a phosphate mineral deposit of ammonium and magnesium, poses a persistent challenge for Anaerobic Digestion (AD) plants and wastewater treatment facilities, causing pipeline blockages, operational inefficient, increased downtime, and financial strains.
Traditional methods for struvite removal involving harsh chemicals such as hydrochloric acid (HCI) and formic acid are not only dangerous but also time-consuming and in most cases, ineffecient. Chemical cleaning can take between 6 and 24 hours, while mechanical cleaning can be even less efficient, taking a few hours to achieve patchy deposit removal or days to remove more substantial buildings-ups.
This results in significant plant downtimes, leading to production losses, increased maintenance costs, and potential infrastructure corrosion which in time will require replacing.
Advanced Bacterial Sciences (ABS), a science-led biotech organisation, has developed a revolutionary solutions for this problem, ABS’ Struvite Remover, which is designed to remove struvite boil-up in less than four hours.
White Rose Shopping Centre, owned and managed by Landsec, is a prominent retails destination in Leeds.
Committed to sustainability, the centre has achieved impressive waste management results, diverting 100% of waste from landfill and recycling over 70% of its total waste.
Moreover, White Rose boasts an extensive solar panel system that generates enough electricity to power 200 homes for a year and utilises an innovative rainwater system to flush toilets, resulting in approximately 40,000 “free” flushes annually.
White Rose Shopping Centre faced significant challenges in its washroom facilities, spevcifically related to waterless urinals, including blocked pipes and unpleasant odours, compromising the washroom experience for customers and adding operational and financial burdens.
The use of cartridges proved ineffective at preventing blockages and foul odours, moreover, they were not only expensive, costing £55 per unit, but also required frequent replacement every 4-6 weeks.
Discover how Hawksmoor effectively utilised our innovative solutions for kitchen waste management, SLUDGEZAP and FOGZAP, to significantly minimise waste in their grease trap and grease pit. Witness how these innovative solutions efficiently eliminate organic waste and fats from drains, ensuring a cleaner and more sustainable environment.
Single-use plastics are slowly killing our planet.
Currently, 38.5 million plastic bottles are used in the UK every day, less than half of which is recycled.
Plastics take hundreds of years to break down so the plastics we throw away today will outlast our grandchildren. Worse still, they cause further damage by killing marine life, polluting waterways, blocking sewers, and contributing to the production of greenhouse gas emissions.
In the UK, it is estimated that each person produces 75kg of plastic waste each year, and that doesn’t include the amount generated by businesses.
While we can take measures individually to reduce plastic consumption, it is a lot harder to implement these in the workplace.
Here are some of the ways you can help reduce plastic use in your organisation:
Ban single-use water bottles and coffee cups
Invest in filtered water taps and coffee machines and provide employees with branded stainless steel water bottles and coffee cups. This helps employees save money on bottled water and takeaway coffee.
Go digital!
Turn your brochures, case studies and business cards into QR codes. Not only does this reduce paper and printing costs, but it also eradicates the need for plastic packaging.
Educate your colleagues
Some people aren’t aware of the alternatives to single-use plastic. Create a cheat sheet that can be circulated via email or host an information session to explain the changes everyone can make and the alternatives that are available in the office.
Challenge your suppliers
Many businesses are always on the lookout for ways they can execute more environmentally friendly operations. Have you tried asking your suppliers why they use so much plastic in their packaging? Or if they’d consider reducing that amount or removing it altogether? They might start using less plastic in their operations, if not, you can always switch to a more sustainable supplier.
Responsibly source your office supplies
Many manufacturers have removed single-use plastic from the packaging of common products such as tea, coffee, and milk. This is just one small step you can take to reduce the amount of single-use plastic that ends up in landfill.
Invest in eco-friendly cleaning products
Many eco-friendly products come in concentrated forms, or ‘forever bottles’ with refillable solutions that don’t contain toxic and harmful chemicals.
Better yet, some of these products are so effective that you can make further reductions to single-use plastics in washrooms. URIZAP is a unique formulation that removes blockages from urinals, and the cause of foul odours, allowing you to ditch urinal mats and pods for good!
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If you’re surfaces smell like bleach, you are harming yourself, and worse still, harming the planet.
We associate ‘cleanliness’ with the powerful smell of bleach and other harsh, toxic ingredients because that’s what we’re used to.
These products are effective at clearing away grease, grime, and other mess. However, burning and killing as a cleaning strategy is not only antiquated, it remains dangerous for human use, and over time damages surfaces.
Here are five reasons why your organisation should make the switch from harsh chemicals to eco-friendly alternatives:
Reduce pollution!
Cleaning products are a major contributor to air pollution, with some studies suggesting that they increase air pollution indoors. Furthermore, these harsh chemicals are often washed down drains, polluting waterways, killing marine life, and creating more work for water treatment plants.
ABS has created a range of products that work to naturally break down waste. These solutions are non-hazardous to humans and marine life, and work to regenerate natural systems.
Save money
Many eco-friendly cleaning alternatives are designed to be more concentrated, so you don’t need to use as much, allowing them to last longer. Given that sustainable alternatives are competitively priced, it is now more economically viable to make the shift.
It is estimated a company with 20 employees can save £15,000 a year just by replacing paper towels and wipes with reusable cloths.
Maximise infrastructure
Throughout the United Kingdom, there are thousands of listed buildings that are protected by law to retain their structural significance and in most cases, these buildings have retained their original internal infrastructure.
Traditional cleaning products are packed with a mixture of toxic chemicals which erode pipework over time, leading to costly repairs and replacements that need to align with heritage standards.
URIZAP is a specially formulated bacterial alternative to harsh chemicals that effectively removes the root cause of blockages, eliminating odours in the process and maintaining infrastructure integrity while removing the need for costly repairs or replacement.
Health benefits
Chemical-based cleaners can be corrosive and release harmful fumes and allergens that may cause respiratory irritation, broken skin, chemical burns, allergic reactions and even poisoning if ingested.
A study conducted by Harvard University and the French National Institute of Health and Medical Research discovered that using bleach-based cleaning products just once a week is enough to increase a person’s chance of developing chronic obstructive pulmonary disease by a third.
Reduce single-use plastics
Eco-friendly businesses consciously source the ingredients and packaging for products, often using materials that are recycled, reusable or biodegradable. Using certain alternatives means that you no longer must buy plastic products.
Bathroom deodorisers and urinal inserts are often entirely made up of plastic and require frequent replacement. These are usually masking agents, hiding a bigger problem such as odour-causing blockages. Using a product like URIZAP, that deals with the root cause of the issue, solves the issue for good and allows you to ditch single-use plastic for good!
Switching to sustainable cleaning alternatives is just one simple way of reducing your carbon emissions and implementing greener strategies within your business. The UK government has committed to reducing the country’s carbon emissions to net zero by 2050. This means that every business within the country has a significant part to play in reducing emissions.
Use this sustainability calculator to understand your current carbon usage and what you can do to reduce it.
Across the hospitality industry, restaurants and catering companies have got ‘saving the planet’ at the top of their to-do lists. They’re making strides towards helping the environment and reducing energy costs by:
Switching to LED lights (the most energy-efficient lighting technology today) and timers (so lights are only on when needed).
Using paper straws and reusable coffee cups (single-use plastic straws and drink stirrers are banned in the UK).
Employing zero food waste policies to help reduce the amount of waste.
This is a great start, but there’s more to be done.
Whether your restaurants are award-winning or not, an unpleasant washroom experience with persistent urinal blockages and unpleasant odours isn’t what customers want to see (and smell). To make matters worse, a single blockage can shut down other urinals, causing significant disruptions until they’re resolved.
Cleaning is something we don’t always think about in terms of sustainability, but it plays a huge part. Restaurants typically rely on environmentally damaging chemicals, manual intervention, and costly ad-hoc rodding by external companies (which can mess with the pipes and cause hidden leaks).
Those were the only options… until now.
Blocked urinals with bad smells? Try URIZAP
When urinals get blocked or smell, harsh chemicals are usually used to try and fix them. It’s understandable because when you’ve got smelly washrooms, customers will think you’ve got bad hygiene in other areas. Smelly washrooms are a huge red flag in the hospitality industry and are your customers’ cue to never come back.
Instead of throwing harsh chemicals down the urinals – that can be toxic to both workers and the environment – try URIZAP. One scoop a week is all that’s required to maintain blockage-free and odourless urinals.
Don’t just take our word for it, this is how leading restaurant chain Hawksmoor enhanced their customer experience by using URIZAP.
“Our obsession with quality and ethics has always driven us to work with individuals and companies who share our beliefs. URIZAP reduces the need for harsh chemicals, is easy to administer, removes odours and costly repair services. We look forward to working with ABS in the future.”
– Patrick Urey, Hawksmoor Head of Operations
Need to reduce grease build-up and odours in grease traps? Try FOGZAP
Grease traps need to be emptied frequently, whether that’s by workers physically carrying them, or having them flow into grease wells that are piped onto trucks. Either way, the disposal process *smells*. It’s greasy, slippery and disgusting. Not to mention the logistical nightmare around how and where the truck is going to park and access the building.
Try FOGZAP instead. This powder-based solution is filled with bacteria that digest fats, oils, and greases, so grease traps can be emptied less frequently. That means a reduction in health and safety risks and a reduction in carbon emissions.
Blocked pipes from food waste? Try SLUDGEZAP
Bits of leftover food and oils on dishes ultimately end up down the drain, clumping together causing blockages and bad odours. To try and shift the blockages, harsh chemicals get thrown in… but they don’t always work (and they’re definitely not good for the environment).
Keep your pipes clear in a sustainable way with SLUDGEZAP. The friendly bacteria in this formulation can digest any organic matter that builds up in toilets, sinks and showers – that means anything with a drain.
For the ultimate washroom cleaning package: use SLUDGEZAP with URIZAP. URIZAP will tackle the urinals, while SLUDGEZAP will take on the sinks and toilets (it can even digest faeces).
For cleaning kitchens sustainably: pair SLUDGEZAP with FOGZAP to target grease traps and the fats and oils from food residue that pollute the water system (from sink drains upstream, to congealed blockage-causing lumps downstream).
What our products can do for you (and the planet)
• Our environmentally friendly, cost-effective cleaning solutions will help you:
• Eliminate the causes of odours.
• Reduce the pollution that ends up in sewerage systems.
• Reduce carbon emissions.
• Create safer working conditions (because they’re non-toxic to humans and animals).
Ready to take a seat at the sustainability table?
Save water and energy while cutting down on single-use plastic, carbon emissions, and environmentally unfriendly chemicals. It all starts with ABS.
