The HOME of sustainability
HOME tackles the problem of single-use plastic with the Toucan Eco.
Manchester's HOME is a multi-use creative arts centre, based in one of the city centre’s most recent developments, First Street.
Since opening up the doors to its 6,200m2 venue in 2015,
HOME welcomes more than one million visitors every year to enjoy its unique combination of international theatre, art and film and exceptional community and creative learning initiatives, as well the contemporary meeting and events spaces.
In 2018, HOME announced plans to eliminate single- use plastic from the building by 2020 as part of its sustainability policy and practice, and is an active supporter of Manchester’s Zero Carbon strategies. It’s the first arts organisation in the world to have all staff trained in carbon literacy, procures green electricity, and has installed beehives on the roof to encourage biodiversity.
Plastic free by 2020
Debbie Bell, Building and Environmental Manager at HOME, explained: “As an organisation we’re working hard to reduce our environmental impact and improve our performance where possible. As part of our sustainability strategy, we reviewed our cleaning practices and worked with the team on site as well as with suppliers to see where single-use plastic could be eliminated from the daily cleaning regime.
“We have a team of 17 in-house operational cleaning staff. As part of induction training all staff complete carbon
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literacy training and we have full buy-in from the team on our sustainable policy and practices. For example, our cleaning team decided to stop using plastic bin liners, instead opting to regularly clean waste disposal units to eliminate single-use plastic liners.”
Debbie and her team were looking at other ways to reduce single-use plastic waste and turned their attention to cleaning product stock and the bottles they are supplied in.
Debbie continued: “Earlier this year, our cleaning distributor DEB Disposables provided us with samples of Robert Scott’s Toucan Eco bio-cleaning solution to test on site. The response from staff was overwhelming, they asked me: ‘Debbie, when are we getting this for real?’.”
Green cleaning
In April 2019, HOME took delivery of a Toucan Eco Active, designed for use in medium-sized facilities. The unit is able to make 10 litres of disinfectant multi-surface cleaner that kills 99.999% of bacteria from just water, salt and an electrochemical reaction.
The system uses salt mixed with water to make a supersaturated brine solution. The 10L tank is then filled with tap water – either by hand or plumbed in – and a 30ml dose of brine water is added for activation. The unit is switched on and activation takes around 15 minutes.
At HOME, the unit was fitted near a water source for ease of use for staff, and has streamlined their daily cleaning
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