Eco hinged food box is suprisingly best on price!

The bagasse biocompostable board burger or other food white box was best price value recently when we looked at other cardboard box prices for a client, like those found in McDonald's or Burger King. I was surprised as they are much more rigid and keep the product together when handled or in transit and certainly have a better quality build and appearance than others.
Starting at less than 9p each this season call us for an order for your BBQ or food to go outlets on 01647 252855 or mail on sales@ma-enviro.co.uk .

Don't forget our amazing disappearing hot cups.

For those of you in the food to go market offering hot drinks, don't forget these Vegware 100% biocompostable cups available in 4,8,12&16oz sizes with biocompostable sip through lids. We have distributed these for over 12 months now to good reviews as apposed to 3 other we tested that had a slight problem with the PLA lining melting (made the coffee taste a little strange!). Needless to say we never went ahead with those thankfully, but these are a proven best solution and coffee clutch insulating sleeves in cardboard are a helpful addition.

New season welcomes new oppurtunity

As the tourist season looms over the horizon and the bottom line gets studied a little harder this year as we prepare for the media driven uncertain times ahead, do think about how you do things such as cleaning, paper tissue dispense and food to go packaging.

It is not the price that is always important it is the process where money is thrown down the drain or in the recycling literally. I can boast that we have saved people alot of money by just changing the way they do things, to the benefit also of maintenance, time and customer satisfaction.

Examples are:

1) Change your paper dispensers to avoid stub roll or excess use waste from bad systems (jumbo and centre feed rolls are the worst culprits).

2) Offer your customers a napkin with their meal don't allow them to help themselves they are only stocking up for later.

3) Don't buy chemicals you don't need just because your cleaners are set in their ways, we have sleep walked into over use, lets roll back to the 50's and look to better materials and more natural fluids.

4) Don't buy machine detergents on price, cheap drums are typically watered down heavily and perform badly creating poor results, extra work and pressure on the pass.

5) Stop buying happening in all departments of a business, have a central cleaning or consumable system that crosses over all areas. This reduces stock, health and safety issues and money.

6) Train staff constantly and make sure systems and decisions are monitored by supplier and staff member responsible so the initial projected cost savings etc are realised.

Da Vinci steel iniative

This week we launch the brand new brushed stainless steel Versatwin micro roll toilet tissue and Multifold hand towel dispensers.These provide a more robust product for areas of security concern or simple preference of style where look is important.There is a cost element to these of around £25 each but on a supply agreement dependant on consumption can be made available free on loan.

Da Vinci systems save waste, maintenance time and cut costs as well as clearly at present being the most eco friendly paper tissue product. It's made in the UK from UK waste and contains no chlorine.

Call us for the latest brochure on 01647 252855 or mail sales@ma-enviro.co.uk.

Devon Snow report

The snow fall on Thursday night got the better of us in the South West. Power cables came down in the valley where our Devon site is located and wiped us out till 5.30pm on Friday. Phones were off and we declared it a day for play!

The national news reported the snow fall on the A38 Haldon Hill, Exeter, a stone's throw from the office where motorists were stranded all night due to the rate at which it came down. I recieved at least a dozen calls on my mobile from concerned customers reporting our phone lines fault.

Yorkshire and London prevailed though despite the quantity they recieved but we are on the Dartmoor National Park and as well as being a beautiful and relative location for an Eco business it does have its challenges. One recalls foot and mouth, flooding, muck spreading season, power failures, no gas supply, it's not for everyone but we love it and wouldn't have it any other way.

Why not come and visit the area and try out the cool Haldon Forrest bike riding http://www.haldonfreeride.org/ there are loads of tracks and adventure activity's.

New printed version of brochure has good feed back

In a effort to be green we send our brochure as an attachment e mail however a lot of customers have said they still prefer something tangible to sit and read easily as well as a good website. With these comments in mind we printed recently the first run of our 2009 brochure version on FSC approved paper. This has received an excellent response and we aim to print minimum runs on each new edition for those who prefer this format.
Please call the office on 01647 252855 or mail us on sales@ma-enviro.co.uk for your copy to be posted if you wish please.