Green Pig EcoStore.com is an independent family run business, supplying compostable and biodegradable waste liners designed to ISO 9001:2008 specifications. We also supply other eco friendly, household products.
The Green Pig branding has been designed to encourage people of all ages to have a responsible approach to the environment. Our aim is to help educate young children about the importance of recycling and encourage them and their families to reduce their carbon footprint.
The older generation will remember Pig Bins, metal bins in the streets for everybody’s food scraps. The bin was emptied every few days and the waste was then fed to animals, mainly pigs and hens. This is now banned in most countries due to animal health concerns. We liken the Pig Bag Caddy Liners supplied by Green Pig EcoStore as a modern day Pig Bin.
Food waste facts: www.teamgreenbritain.org
- In the UK we throw away 8.3 million tonnes of food and drink every year.
- Of this 8.3 million tonnes, Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP) estimates that 5.3 million tonnes is avoidable. That’s the equivalent of filling 4,700 Olympic-sized swimming pools
- Stopping throwing away this food and drink could save the equivalent of at least 20 million tonnes of CO2 emissions each year
For information about how to limit your waste go to http://www.lovefoodhatewaste.com/
North Somerset Council food waste is taken to a specialist treatment facility and heated to over 60 degrees Celsius to kill any bacteria. The product of this process is used as an agricultural soil enricher. Some Council’s send their waste to a biomass plants where the food waste is turned into bio-fuel and used to generate power.
Green Pig Facts
Do you know the difference between something that is biodegradable and something which is compostable?
Biodegradable plastic will degrade as a result of bacterial activity. In order to also be classified compostable, the degradation must meet certain specified criteria such as rate biodegradation, maximum residue of material left at a specific point in time and a requirement for the material to have no harmful impact on the final compost or the composting process. All compostable plastic is therefore also biodegradable. The standard for compostable plastic used is the European standard EN-13432. For example, Green Pig EcoStore caddy liners are a bio-degradable plastic manufactured in the UK from corn starch.
Degradable plastics are not compostable. Most of the products using the label Degradable plastic, degrade as result of physical and chemical impact (fracture into smaller pieces of plastic). They are oil based products with special additives that assist their 'fragmentation'. Biological activity is not a significant part of the degradation of these products, or the process is too slow to earn the classification Biodegradable or Compostable (the biological degradation will typically take many years).
Green Pig Fact
Corn Starch Pig Bags are also great for food storage!
Corn Starch Pig Bags allow heat and moisture to evaporatethrough the walls keeping fruit and vegetables fresher for longer than using regular plastic food storage bags.
They are also an excellent barrier to viruses and bacteria which means you can store food safely too.
Green Pig Fact
The UK generates 350,000,000 tonnes of waste every day much of which is food. Typically, almost half of the food purchased ends up as waste. At the current rate the UK will have filled its landfill sites in 9 years time, where shall we put our rubbish then?
When dumped in a landlocked landfill site food waste along with other waste gives off methane gas which contributes to global warming. Dumping food waste in a landfill causes environmental damage. By volume, it is the largest contributor to methane gas production. It causes odour as it decomposes, attracts flies and vermin, and has the highest potential to add Chemical Oxygen Demand (COD) to the leachate which is basically water that filters through landfill sites becoming contaminated with the risk of entering our water supply.
Green Pig Fact
It is estimated that there are 7.4 million dogs in the UK.
Together, they produce up to 1,000 tonnes of faeces everyday. One dog is estimated to produce between 100-200 g of faeces and some 0.25-1.25 litres of urine each day.
ENCAMS, the charity that runs the Keep Britain Tidy campaign, calculated that around 60 percent of the dog owners in the UK (around 4.6 million adults) ignore their dog’s mess and leave it in public places for others to step in it.
Toxocara T. canis is transmitted by dogs and foxes and Toxocara T.catis is transmitted by cats. Both variants come from the roundworm Toxocara. It is the eggs from the roundworm in the faeces that can infect humans.
Random soil sampling shows that the majority of the parks in the UK are contaminated with Toxocara eggs in various stages of development.
The eggs are resistant to freezing and disinfectants and can survive for two years or more. One solution to avoid these eggs is to scoop that poop!
Humans can contract Toxocara through the contact of faeces carrying eggs of the parasite. The parasite can only infect humans if swallowed, which is why the majority of humans infected are children aged 18 months and five years.
This means that picking up after your dog is the responsible thing to do.
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