… With super convenient tie handles.
We’ve all had that moment when we go to empty our food caddies and we realise that we have to try to tie a knot with the microscopic surplus around the edge of our brim full bag! RESULT: the bag splits, tips, slips out of your fingers or at best covers your hands with dubious detritus from a week’s worth of rotting food – still it’s all good for the planet so we persevere!
PUK caddy bags come with tie handles which make removal of the bag from the caddy much easier than the standard bags from the supermarkets. The handle can be used to tie the bag to form a tidy, mess free seal and to carry the bag outside.
We are giving away 100 x 8 Litre compostable food waste caddy bags with handles ABSOLUTLY FREE with all orders placed in April. To get yours simply email your details to: sales@polytheneuk.co.uk
All our caddy bags are EN13432 accredited – suitable for local council food waste collection schemes or for use in home composting.
If you simply want to purchase them, you can do by visiting our ebay page.
100 x 8 Litre compostable food waste caddy bags with handles – £7.00
This month I’ve been thinking about carbon reduction (here he goes again I hear you say).
I recently purchased another 500 trees in order to offset the carbon footprint (CO2) we create running our Polythene UK offices in Witney, and it got me wondering…
… Is it possible for polythene to qualify for carbon credits? Thinking about it, I believe our Polylite material could!
Carbon credits are issued by the Carbon Trust to companies who are producing greener products or taking steps to decrease the impact CO2 has on the environment. The greener the product or action the more carbon credits you get. Take my trees for instance:
1 tree = 700kg of CO2 per tonne over a 40 yr lifecycle – a carbon credit value of £9.00
The company we buy the trees from sells these carbon credits to large FTSE100 businesses to offset their voluntary code of practice to reduce carbon emissions, basically they buy carbon credits to balance their carbon books.
So here’s my thinking:
- IF: 1 tree = 0.7 tonnes of CO2 in 40 years
- AND: We sold Polylite to 35 new customers in January who saved on average 400kg of LDPE each a total of 14,000kg (14 tonnes)
- THEN: 14,000kg of LDPE saved by sales of Polylite @ 2.6 tonnes of CO2 per tonne = 36.4 tonnes CO2 saved in just 1 month on the first orders from new business alone!
- RESULT: Polylite is officially greener than trees!
We have applied to the Carbon Trust to get them to come and assess Polylite and award it a carbon credit rating (much more than £9 if the figures stack up). If successful, we can sell the carbon credits generated from Polylite sales onto the FTSE 100 businesses. This would mean we could reduce our prices and pass the savings back to you the customers that have helped us create it in the first place – Come on the Carbon Trust! A saving is a saving – even if it is polythene!
Our application is in we will keep you posted. If you want to talk to me more about this give me a call on: 0843 289 6575 or contact us.
We would like to highlight the fact that landfill tax is set to increase, yet again.
Landfill Tax Rises:
The current standard rate is £56 per tonne, from 31 March 2012 this will increase to:
- £64 per tonne on 1 April 2012
- £72 per tonne on 1 April 2013
- £80 per tonne on 1 April 2014
You can find more information HERE.
We can help:
In a move to save you money and save more polythene waste going to landfill, we would urge to you take advantage of our FREE Polylocal service. All you have to do is bale your waste and we will collect it – in return we will offer you a discount on your next polythene order – what have you got to lose?
For more information please contact us: 0843 289 6575
Are you taking advantage of our FREE PolyLocal waste collection service?
As part of our ongoing programme of development, we have put into place a scheme where waste plastics are collected and reprocessed in the UK – creating a source of high-quality regranulate.
By partnering Green Star – a major reprocessing company in Birmingham we are able to keep and reprocess this valuable resource in the UK. Current waste is sold and shipped to China to be processed and remanufactured into polythene products, many of which are then shipped back to the UK – leaving a massive carbon footprint.
Our distribution partner John Hackling Ltd (part of Palletline) will collect good quality waste polythene from customers’ premises. It will be washed and processed into high-quality re-granulate which will be reused to produce new polythene materials – helping us all avoid yet more price increases.
If you are interested in using this FREE service, contact one of our friendly sales team on: 0843 289 6575
