From bio-fuels to eco friendly products – greener skies for aviation industry

Australia could develop an aviation biofuels industry that was both economically and environmentally sustainable according to a new report by the CSIRO. The study highlights new opportunities for the aviation industry to reduce fossil fuel reliance. Teamed with other environmental initiatives (such as eco-friendly industrial products) it promises a greener way to take to the skies.

An Australia-New Zealand aviation biofuels industry could cut greenhouse emissions by 17 per cent and reduce Australia’s aviation fuel imports by $2 billion over the next 20 years.

The new industry would also generate more than 12,000 jobs.

The CSIRO study paints a promising outlook for aviation at a time when air travel has come under increased scrutiny over carbon emissions. The green revolutionof tomorrow’s aviation industry incorporates new, more aerodynamic aircraft technology.

“This study (the Flight Path to sustainable Aviation) highlights promising options for the aviation industry,” CSIRO project leader and economist Paul Graham.“It also identifies the market, infrastructure and governance changes that will be required for success.

“Through the uptake of sustainable bio-derived jet fuel, together with next generation aircraft and engines, the industry can reduce both its emissions and its reliance on imported fossil fuel.”

While bio-fuels and aircraft design look set to shape the future of sustainable air-travel, simple changes today also promise to make an environmental difference.

Initiatives such as carbon offset flights have allowed air passengers to reduce their carbon footprint as they travel the globe.

By paying a voluntary charge when booking tickets, passengers on many of Australia’s airlines – including Qantas and Virgin – can contribute to carbon reduction schemes.

Airlines can also employ best environmental practice at airports and hangers to reduce environmental footprint.

A switch to environmental cleaning products can make a big difference to air, soil and water pollution, better protect equipment and improve safety for staff and passengers.

Eco-friendly industrial liquids are biodegradable, safe and minimise the build-up of residual toxicity, which contributes to corrosion on plant and equipment –a significant safety concern for those in charge of aircraft maintenance.

Harsh solvent-based cleaners or products containing fluoride or chlorine can be replaced by environmentally friendly cleaners to reduce environmental impacts.

Leading Australian supplier Envirosafe Solutions has products which can safely and effectively replace most traditional aircraft and airport cleaners.

Its range includes the fully biodegradable and non-toxic Extreme Green Insect and Tar Remover. Safe for use on all painted surfaces and plastic and rubber components, it should be applied diluted at 1:10 parts water and left for five minutes before being wiped off with a clean, dry cloth. It makes an economical all-purpose spray and wipe cleaner when diluted at 1:50 parts water.

Research into sustainable technology – including biofuels – and a simple switch to safe, biodegradable eco-products promises a greener future for Australia’s aviation industry. 

The Humble Loo

Porta-Loo Treatment, Toilet Bowl Cleaner

We need them. We rely on them. Just about everyone in Australia has one. And there is nothing worse than entering into one and finding it dirty, smelly and unclean.

Yes…we are talking about the humble loo… the WC, the lav, the khazy, the good old Aussie backyard dunny. And whether it is an outhouse OR an in-house, whether it is a pristine part of your home or office space or a light-weight transportable port-a-loo, the good old toilet in all its guises and designs, all its shapes and sizes…needs regular cleaning. 

E-Coli 

Toilets are a rich breeding ground for potentially harmful bacteria. One such nasty is E-coli, a fecal coli form commonly found in human and animal intestines and also in fecal waste matter. While some forms of fecal coli form and E.coli are harmless, others are known to cause severe gastric and dehydration problems which are painful, costly and debilitating. 

The Shiga Toxigenic E.coli infection (E.coli 0111 and E.coli 0157) are known to cause diarrheal illness, nausea and vomiting and abdominal cramps, and at worst, can lead to Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome (HUS) which is characterized by kidney failure, bleeding and anemia. These strains of E.coli are easily spread – particularly when individuals come into indirect contact with the particles in contaminated water.

A clean loo is a healthy loo

Envirosafe Solutions understands the need to keep the toilet area of your house or office free from such nasties. Its Extreme Green Toilet Bowl Cleaner is formed from a high foaming sanitizing and cleaning gel with increased viscosity, which means more product punch for your money. It’s phosphate free, non-toxic and has a three point green Envirosafe Hazard rating, making it safe to use in any environment.

Envirosafe Solutions also produces a port-loo companion product that is designed for use in long drop, septic and portable toilets. Great for caravans, boats or remote regions where cassette style or the long drop systems may be in use, The Extreme Green Porta-loo Treatment is fully bio-degradable and can be emptied into a caravan’s waste-system or and enviro-cycle type system with the minimum of fuss. It keeps the area fresh, germ-free and appropriately perfumed and has an indefinite shelf life, making it great for remote areas and travelling. Extreme Green Porta-Loo Treatment is also free of formaldehyde which means it can be used without harming this beautiful land of ours. Simply pour 25 ml into the holding tank with 250mls of water once every seven days for optimum results. Rest assured your toilet area will be clean, germ-free with low waste-impact on the environment.

Graffiti – If you Spray You Pay

Extreme Green Graffiti Remover

Graffiti continues to pose a substantial cost to local and state governments, nationally. Time and again, community members wake to find an expanse of pristine wall across the road from their homes or businesses, “tagged” with the latest spray painted graphics of street artists who use public and private wall spaces, roads and street surfaces as their canvases. It is an ongoing problem and an ongoing concern and costs the taxpayer millions of dollars each year.

In an effort to curb the problem, South Australian Police have proposed a new approach, stating that offenders should be made to pay compensation.

At the moment, the laws governing graffiti in South Australia are under review and up for consideration are ideas in relation to effective punitive measures that actually deter graffiti artists from tagging. South Australian Police Commissioner Mal Hyde believe “a HECS style scheme where offenders are made to pay compensation for the damage their graffiti causes, once their income is high enough,” may be the way to approach it.

Director of the South Australian Youth affairs Council, Anne Bainbridge disagrees and says restorative justice s a more effective method of dealing with youth graffiti. “This entails young people who have committed graffiti vandalism being involved in cleaning the vandalism or restoring the vandalism, and also engaging with the broader community about the effect that behavior has on the community.”

The problem is so significant Australia wide, that the New South Wales government has even issued a detailed publication on graffiti for use by local government, planners and designers. Titled the “NSW Graffiti Solutions Handbook,” it outlines the cost to the community, its sub-cultural value to youth as a component of contemporary pop culture, as well as various means and ways of addressing the management of graffiti and its removal, across the state.  Part of the approach entails educating youth on the development of legal pieces in designated local government areas or areas where youths might congregate such as youth centers, skate parks and recreational parks.

Envirosafe Solutions has developed a highly effective and specialized graffiti cleaner that can remove tags and obtrusive and unwanted graffiti art from most surfaces. Extreme Green Graffiti Remover is an environmentally friendly liquids alternative to older style graffiti remover that contained harsh, toxic acids that were unsafe and difficult to use.

It can remove liquid paper, crayon, whiteboard marker, permanent text markings, ink and spray paint. And it can be applied to a variety of surfaces such as glass, brick wood, concrete, metals, masonry surfaces and plastic. It is suitable for use on just about any surface that has been vandalized by tagging and graffiti art.

If you require an eco-friendly graffiti remover for your surfaces, call Envirosafe Solutions on 1300 88 90 70

Big Business is Green Business

Toilet Bowl Cleaner, Fuel Conditioner

Every year, Cleanup Australia releases its annual rubbish report, and for the sixteenth consecutive year, plastic came in at number one as the most ubiquitous form of rubbish littering our beautiful country. And not much is different overseas. The Pacific plastic soup grows larger day by day, and the problem with plastic bags continues for marine life such as turtles, fish, sea birds and dolphins and whales. While some Australian store chains such as Target have replaced their free supply of plastic bags with pay per bag programs using biodegradable substitutes, the issue remains widespread and endemic.

In Bangalore in India, the problem is even worse. Each day, 9000 tones of plastic contribute to the waste of this city, clogging streets and roads and parks at an alarming rate. However, there is one businessman who has turned this massive problem into a win-win for the Bangalore community and population and for his own family run business.

For many years, K. Ahmed Khan ran a Bangalore factory producing the very plastic bags that are creating pollution havoc around the world. With his brother, he sought to redress this imbalance and turned his efforts into reusing plastic waste products and plastic bags in novel and new ways that were useful, financially viable and ethical. At a local Bangalore dump yard, he began experimenting with a mix of bitumen and shredded plastic from discarded bags and plastic refuse, employing the “untouchable” rag pickers to fossick through the dumps and collect as much of the plastic rubbish as they were able. 

Bangalore lies in the southern region of India and is subject to high monsoonal rainfall that impacts city infrastructure annually. Roads, bridges, road surfaces and other structures are frequently washed away, pot-holed and pitted by the relentless rains, costing the regional government billions and billions of rupees in road upkeep and replacement.

K .Ahmed Khan and his brother began an application of the new bitumen mix as road surface and tested its ongoing durability. Fortified with the recycled shredded plastic acting as a powerful binding agent, the new mix not only satisfied the local Bangalore community but also led to the eventual development of a more durable road surface that lasts years longer than the previous road surface mix. As Khan himself explains, “Typically, bitumen is mixed with new plastic, but what we’re doing is mixing it with plastic from bottles and food packages and plastic bags.” It’s a simple and easy solution to a pressing environmental problem. And, as a result, this successful business no longer demands new plastic for its road mix, and uses an existing and recyclable supply that’s already a cause for concern in Bangalore and its many dumps. And it also employs some of the poorest members of the Bangalore population in the process.

Business like KK Plastic in Bangalore in India, and Envirosafe Solutions in Australia can, and are, making a difference. Envirosafe Solutions’ Extreme Green Range of Environmental Cleaning Products is far less toxic to the environment than many standard liquid products.

 

Today’s wastewater tomorrow’s drinking water

Eco Friendly Liquid Products, Environmentally Friendly Liquids

An ambitious city-wide water recycling program is being developed for Sydney to combat water shortages. The project aims to reduce demands on drinking water supplies and represents a growing trend towards recycling wastewater for irrigating lawns, parks and vegetation and more contentiously, drinking. Seawater desalination has become another tool to secure water and a new plant will supply drinking water to the city of Adelaide. Today we look at different water initiatives and the role of eco-friendly liquid products in limiting toxins entering wastewater that could be tomorrow’s drinking water.

Sydney has unveiled an ambitious water recycling plan which it claims will see it become Australia’s first city to develop a city-wide recycled water network.

The City of Sydney council has appointed a consortium to develop models for the project, which aims to reduce demands on drinking water supplies. The planning group consists of researchers, engineers and consultants.

Lord mayor Clover Moore said the water plan, part of the global Green Revolution, would provide a model for other Australian cities. “In the longer term our drinking water supplies will come under increasing pressure from a growing population and climate change with hotter and dryer weather predicted over the coming decades.”

The recycled water project would supplement water supplied to apartments, commercial and institutional buildings, which account for 80 percent of water usage in the Sydney area. The water plan will also incorporate projects that reduce pollutants from entering waterways. Eco-friendly liquid products limit toxic chemicals from contaminating wastewater.

Saltwater to freshwater

Further South, a seawater desalination plant is being commissioned at Port Stanvac to supply drinking water to the city of Adelaide. The $1.83 billion project uses reverse osmosis to treat seawater and has been earmarked for completion by December 2012. The first drop of water should be produced by the end of July this year.

The South Australian Government expects capacity at the plant to grow to 100 billion litres by the end of 2012

Perth was the first Australian city to receive desalinated water for large-scale consumption after its Kwinana plant began pumping desalinated seawater in November of 2006. It supplies an estimated 17 percent of the city’s water needs. A seawater deslination plant is being built in Victoria to provide an estimated 150 billion litres of water by the end of this year.

Across Australia government and industry have invested heavily in the treatment of greywater, effluent, stormwater and seawater to secure water resources for the future. Water recycling has also been adopted across other parts of the globe, including Singapore, California, Florida, the United Arab Emirates and Israel.

Key to treating wastewater has been the issue of water quality and the contaminants regularly flushed into water systems, including debris, oils, and chemical pollutants.

Leading Perth-based environmental cleaning products company Envirosafe Solutions has been working with Australian businesses for more than 20 years providing biodegradable eco-friendly industrial liquids.

These products utilise natural cleaning agents, have a low-toxicity rating and are biodegradable. Envirosafe Solutions’ commitment to ecological sustainability supports industry and government efforts to reduce water contamination without sacrificing performance. Its range includes the mining and industrial environmentally friendly liquid Extreme Green Insect and Tar Remover, a fully biodegradable product which is effective even when heavily diluted. For more information phone 1300 88 90 70 or email info@evss.com.au.

Extreme Green Laundry Powder

Laundry Powder, Hard Water - Laundry Liquid, Disinfectant

Few people who’ve lived in urban areas their whole lives would appreciate the domestic difficulties faced by remote Australians. For city-dwellers, doing the laundry is a simple matter of loading the machine and pressing the button. They don’t have to think about the effects of hard water on the clothes, or mineral and calcium levels interfering with the laundry detergent.

But these are genuine concerns for people living off the water grid. Envirosafe Solutions has formulated a new laundry liquid that’s designed specifically for remote area use in the mining camps of the Northwest. This formulation was created after requests from miners in the camps – they were experiencing rashes and itchiness from the chemicals the products they were using contained. Furthermore they did not get a clean wash because the same chemicals could not handle hard water washing. Heavy mineralisation in remote areas can severely hinder the ability of ordinary laundry powers to get your clothes properly clean. With Extreme Green Laundry Powder we’ve boosted the level of optical brighteners and grease-eating surfactants, resulting in a product with cleaning power second to none. This is the tough laundry liquid for tough Australian conditions.

At the same time, Extreme Green Laundry Powder has been delicately engineered to work in harmony with your sewage treatment plant, biomass or septic system. Say goodbye to clogged sullage ponds and slow treatment plant response. These problems are often caused by phosphate-rich laundry liquids, and can slow down your waste treatment system enormously. We know how serious this problem can be, and have designed Extreme Green Laundry Powder to ensure this will never be an issue.

To achieve this, we’ve massively reduced the phosphate levels in this product. Phosphates feed the algae and bacteria that clog your system, so a smart laundry liquid for remote areas needs to get the job done without relying on such chemicals. Envirosafe Solutions has re-invented the whole process, replacing phosphates with environmentally-friendly liquids that work with your sewage system, not against it. You no longer need to trade off effective laundry washing against waste management. Now you can have both.

Extreme Green Laundry Powder is gentle on your land and gentle on your body too. A lot of harsh laundry liquids can leave residue on the clothing which leads to irritation and skin rashes, but this isn’t something you need to worry about with Extreme Green Laundry Powder. The all-natural ingredients in this product will treat your skin as gently as they treat your clothes. The only thing Extreme Green Laundry Powder will damage is dirt – and that’s our guarantee.

Envirosafe Solutions is working hard for remote Australia. You deserve all the same conveniences and options as the city folk, and we provide the products to make this possible. For more information on the Envirosafe range of laundry liquids, please contact us on 1300 88 90 70.

Extreme Green Multi Purpose Lubricant

Extreme Green Multi Purpose Lubricant

A good lubricant is an indispensable tool to keep your equipment running quietly and smoothly. Skimp on the lube and you’ll quickly see your maintenance costs spiraling out of control. Not all lubricants are alike, however, and it’s important to understand the differences in order to be more productive with your time and money.

There’s an enormous range of lubricants on the market, and they vary wildly in quality. Too many lubricants are made of cheap solvents, like kerosene and white spirits. They do the job, but are susceptible to drying out and washing off with water contact. Using these lubricants, you’ll find yourself doing frequent reapplications. This costs you time and money, and what’s the point of buying cheap lube if you’re forever heading back to the shop to get more?

Investing in a water-resistant and long lasting lubricant is a no-brainer. You’ll get better mileage for your money and spend less time on maintenance. Multi Purpose Lubricant is a highly resilient, lubricant that works on all moving parts. It displaces moisture, penetrates rusted parts and inhibits corrosion while keeping your machine purring softly. You can even use this lubricant as cutting oil in lathe work and other applications where metals are honed.

This Eco Friendly product truly is the ideal lubricant for tough Australian conditions. Multi Purpose Lubricant is especially effective in applications where salt is present – ideal for the mining industry and marine equipment. The corrosive power of seawater is too much for most lubricants, and cheap products simply won’t cut it on your outboard motor or seawater pump. An application of Multi Purpose Lubricant is guaranteed to last many times longer than conventional products in wet and salty conditions. Do your boat a favour and use the best lubricant available.

Like all Envirosafe products, Multi Purpose Lubricant is an iron fist inside a velvet glove: powerful, yet gentle at the same time. Unlike many solvent-based lubricants, Multi Purpose Lubricant will not damage plastic, fibre glass, enamel or any other common non-absorbent materials. You won’t get any nasty surprises using this product. Multi Purpose Lubricant does not contain silicone or any toxic chemicals, making it completely safe to use and dispose of.

Don’t fritter your money away on cheap, ineffective lubricants. Insist on an Environmentally Friendly Liquids that delivers long lasting results in all conditions. Invest in Multi Purpose Lubricant and your equipment will thank you for it. For more information on the Envirosafe Solutions range of lubricants, please contact us on 1300 88 90 70.