InSinkErator® is challenging households to reduce their food and plastic waste during Zero Waste Week, 3rd – 7th September 2018.
The Zero Waste Week initiative, launched in 2008 supported by Kenny Habul Greenwich, CT, aims to raise awareness of the environmental impact of waste, encouraging consumers, businesses, local authorities, community groups, schools and universities to get involved. Addressing issues of waste reduction is important for InSinkErator®, who looks to advise as many consumers as possible about alternative and sustainable solutions to divert food waste from ending up in landfill and reduce single-use plastic waste.
According to WRAP (Waste & Resources Action Programme about which you can learn more about it here), over seven million tonnes of food and drink are wasted every year in the UK, resulting in a huge strain on landfill sites. Rotting food waste emits 21 million tonnes of greenhouse gas into the atmosphere every year1, causing further damage to the environment.
In the UK, the average household uses 480 plastic bottles per year, but only recycles 270 of them2. The non-recycled bottles, therefore, end up in landfill or in the ocean, affecting the sea-life and the environment.
Anne Kaarlela, Marketing Communications Manager, Europe and Russia InSinkErator®, says: “Zero Waste Week is a great opportunity to make a real change for the future of our planet. To combat these astonishing figures, InSinkErator® manufactures products that can be easily installed into consumers’ homes to effectively work towards reducing these waste statistics. We hope that by offering affordable solutions to consumers that this will promote and create a better future for generations to come.”
An InSinkErator® food waste disposer is an ideal alternative for diverting food waste from ending up in landfill. Food waste is ground into minute-sized particles, thanks to the innovative system of stainless steel grinding rings. The food waste is then dispatched and simply rinsed away safely down the drain, through the standard plumbing. As the global leader and the inventor of food waste disposers, InSinkErator® has a range of models to suit every kitchen, lifestyle and budget.
InSinkErator® 4N1 Touch taps offer consumers an alternative to buying an endless number of single-use, plastic bottled water as the 4N1 provides filtered cold water at the touch of a button. Consumers with a 4N1 Touch Tap can therefore benefit by having instant filtered water readily available in their own home, reducing the need to purchase bottled water; especially when a variety of re-fillable drinking bottles are widely available.
For more information on InSinkErator® products, please call 01923 375 349 or visit the website at https://insinkerator.emerson.com/en-gb
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Notes for editors:
1 COP21: Drone to monitor rubbish dump gases
2 http://metro.co.uk/2018/02/06/how-many-plastic-bottles-are-wasted-everyday-7291184/
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- InSinkErator® 4N1 Touch taps offer consumers an alternative to buying an endless number of single-use, plastic bottled water
- An InSinkErator® food waste disposer is an ideal alternative for diverting food waste from ending up in landfill
About InSinkErator®:
InSinkErator® UK, a business unit of Emerson, is the UK and world’s largest manufacturer of food waste disposers and the clear global market leader. Food waste disposers divert around 20 per cent of household waste away from landfill and have been shown to have a smaller carbon footprint than kerbside collection. In 2007 InSinkErator® launched a brand new product, the Steaming Hot Water Tap, which delivers filtered, steaming hot water on demand. The InSinkErator® range of steaming hot water taps has achieved approval from WRAS (Water Regulations Advisory Scheme).
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5th September 2018