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Northwood expands Green Loop
programme Northwood Hygiene Products is taking washroom recycling to a new level with the expansion of its Green Loop recycling package, which now includes paper hand towel recycling and stub roll recycling.
Under its newly extended full-circle service, which is designed to help customers lower their waste footprint, Northwood will take these often-unrecycled items from washrooms, turn them into raw materials and create future sustainable washroom hygiene products.
Customers who sign up for the scheme are provided with dedicated recycling bins, which collect the paper waste in the washroom. The paper is then collected and sorted before recycling through one of Northwood’s UK paper mills, and then made into one of Northwood’s recycled paper hygiene products.
Joel Quick, Sustainability Manager at Northwood, commented: “Separating hand towels from general waste at the point of use is terrific progress in addressing the amount of waste potentially destined for landfill and helping end users to minimise their environmental impact. We were keen to work with our customers to explore recycling a variety of paper waste, including stub rolls too.
“We felt it was important to do something to overcome a common issue with some tissue products, where as much as 20% of the roll can be wasted because washroom maintenance staff may change the rolls earlier than they need to in order to avoid run-outs. Similarly in hotels, there can be dozens of half-used toilet rolls thrown away every day, because the venue insists on using a new toilet roll in the bathroom every time a guest checks-in. With
this service, staff simply pop the stub roll waste into the recycling bin and we do the rest.”
Focusing on plastics, Northwood’s Green Loop programme was first launched in 2023 and it has continued to expand and evolve since then, with around 250 customers now actively using it.
Earlier this year, the Telford-based business expanded its Green Loop initiative with the introduction of a dispenser recycling service. Under the scheme, Northwood removes old soap and paper dispensers from customer premises and recycles them as part of its market-leading installation service. The plastic recovered from the dispensers is recycled via Northwood’s supply chain partners and made into new Northwood products – all helping to divert more plastic from landfill.
Joel added: “We are committed to the circular economy, which is all about minimising waste, increasing recycling and preserving the earth’s resources. It’s important for us as a business to prioritise the re-use of materials, prevent the overextraction of natural resources and reduce the number of useable materials that end up in landfill. We’re really proud that our customers think the same and we’re confident that this latest initiative will prove really popular.”
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CHSA releases Safety Data Sheet guide
Safety data sheets (SDS) provide the information end users of cleaning chemicals need to make an appropriate risk assessment, as required by the Control of Substances Hazardous to Health Regulations (COSHH).
They are essential and available, as standard, from reputable manufacturers and suppliers.
To help users understand the format and structure of SDSs, the Cleaning & Hygiene Suppliers Association (CHSA) has produced a simple guide. It explains the SDS’s function, as stated by the Health and Safety Executive, is to ‘describe the hazards the chemical presents, and give information on handling, storage and emergency measures in case of accident’. The guide goes on to outline the content provided in each section.
The intention is to help users understand what is to be expected in an SDS. The guide, and an SDS itself, are not a risk assessment. Full and appropriate risk assessments on
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the use of a specific product must be carried out using the information in the SDS.
The guide is available on the CHSA’s website. For information on Safety Data Sheets and their interpretation, visit the Health and Safety Executive website. Click here to download the CHSA’s SDS Fact Sheet.
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