OUR ENVIRONMENT
We are trying to reduce our impact on the planet and support our local community. As a small business our efforts may not seem to make a huge difference. However, all things start off small and collectively make an enormous impact.
Take Greta Thunberg, the Swedish environmental activist who, in August 2018, sat alone outside the Swedish Parliament protesting against the lack of action on the climate crisis. Fast forward a year, she has 1.7 million twitter followers. Moreover, millions of people around the world stand with her in protest rallies.
Here are a few things we are doing to reduce our impact on the environment and also help our local community.
In an effort to reduce our reliance of single use plastics, we signed up with Homethings (as seen on Dragons Den) for all our cleaning products, from the office to photoshoots of our projects. Regular cleaning sprays are 90% water – these are weighty and add to CO2 emissions when transported. The Homethings tablets are also non-toxic. Simply add one to a reusable spray bottle and add water!
We support Harrison’s Fund – which is a non-profit charity trying to raise as much money as possible to put into the hands of the world’s best researchers, who are working to find a cure for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy.
Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy is a stinker of a disease. It’s the most common fatal genetic disorder to affect children around the world. Those with it, can’t produce dystrophin; a protein required to build up muscles. As a result, every muscle in the body deteriorates. Right now, there is no cure.
If you would like to join us in helping to support Harrison’s Fund please go to their website and check out exciting events they are doing.
We now offer our clients sparkling water without the plastic – because Planet Earth needs less waste and more sparkle.
By using a reusable SodaStream carbonating bottle, we can save up to 1,282 single use plastic bottles from our planet per year.
By twinning your toilet, you help fund a project in a poor community that will enable families to build a basic toilet, have access to clean water and learn about hygiene – a vital combination that saves lives.
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Why not twin your stylish new WC from MVE Ltd at Toilet Twinning.
For the comfort of our visitors, we provide non-paper hand towels from Marley’s Monsters. Hygienic, soft and environmentally friendly (they are made from 100% cotton).
If you would like to add these to your cloakroom or bathroom visit Peace with the Wild.
Bye bye plastic sponges! Did you know the average washing up sponge is made up of polyurethane, a petroleum-based ingredient. Essentially, conventional sponges are made from oil-based plastics. Not only that, but they harbour MORE bacteria than natural sponges. According to a recent study published in the distinguished scientific journal Nature, there are up to forty-five billion microbes per square centimetre on a kitchen sponge. That is reportedly more bacteria than you’ll find in your bathroom – all because of a man-made sponge!
This is why we have swapped our plastic kitchen sponge for a 100% natural Loofah! They are made from sustainable plant fibres of loofah plant and coconut, which are renewable materials that absorb CO2 when growing. The pad is 100% biodegradable and compostable at end of life.
You can get them, and many other environmentally friendly products for the kitchen & bathroom from Peace with the Wild.
We have joined the Refill campaign. You can bring in your reusable water bottle and refill from our kitchen tap.
In the UK, fewer than 30% of people refill their reusable water bottles, despite the UK having some of the best quality tap water in the world!
The average person in the UK will use 150 plastic water bottles per year. If just one in ten Brits refilled once a week, we’d have 340 million fewer plastic bottles a year in circulation!
Refill not only makes refilling a reusable water bottle easy, but it saves you money too. The campaign aims to stop millions of single-use plastic bottles being bought, in turn helping to prevent plastic pollution from entering our rivers and sea.
There’s simply no need to buy bottled water.