Back in 2019 whne wwe saw the need to help our local clients in Loughborough to discover ways to become more sustainable, we discovered that there was a niche to fill and we took it. This was the Zero Waste store solution where plastic containers can be reused when they refill thier basic grocery items like washing up and laundry liquids
Plastic has become an environmental hazard due to the amount of single-use plastic products polluting oceans and landfill sites. Reusing is one of the more effective methods individuals can easily get involved in. By reusing plastic products, not only does it reduce the amount of new plastic being made, it prevents plastic from taking up landfill space. This space can then be used to home biodegradable products which can easily decompose.
Our aim was to provide cleaning products that do not cost or harm the earth. It was so important to us that being Eco-friendly, and having a Green Heart is one of our core values which we strongly adhere to.
We had the slogan “Refill, Reuse, Recycle”, it helped our initiativeto offer a refill service for the cleaning products we use for our commercial cleaning. Our aim with the refill system is to provide people with the opportunity to live more sustainably and join the less waste movement.
Once the original content in the container is consumed, customers just keep it and refill until the container gets too tired. simply keep your empty bottle, ready to be refilled on one of our refill days. The Service was both Eco-friendly and pocket-friendly too.
The Refill Service
The reill service stopped runing following the cost of living crisis due to various reasons.
- Good cleaning product, like any other are not cheap, this was a sticking that affected a lot of our customers.
- We has a store that was in the part of town that had a huge amount of parking resitrictions, this meant that a lot of our elderly customers struggles to come to us when they needed us.
- The business model was har to scale up also, this was i part due to it’s experimental business model nature.
- We worked out that we save over 20,000 plastic bottles from landfill in 3 years. This is not a big number but a great achievement from a small experiment.
- The store helped a lot of people in the town understand how to be sustainable in every day lifestyle choices, tachievement alone is hard to put a value on. This is why we are so happy tor have taken the step to triel theLoughborough Zero Waste store Project.
What Next?
We are now focusing on developing a service that will providing great ecofriendly cleaning services in the Loughborough and surrounding East Midlands area.
We have also launched our consulting service to help cleaning business startups to grow and be established. The cleaning consultancy also support in-house cleaning management teams to improve service quality.
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