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The Splash: Feel Good Eco Cleaning from Ecover

‘The Splash’ is Ecover’s online magazine, dedicated to those looking to reduce their environmental impact on the home by using eco friendly cleaning products.

Packed with eco cleaning news, offers and competitions, as well as helpful tips from Ecover’s panel of cleaning experts check out The Splash for money saving deals and details of Ecover’s ‘Agent of Change’ programme.

Green Policies

Ecover are as clean and green behind the scenes as we are when we’re working hard in your home.

We were the first to introduce phosphate-free washing powder in the 1980s. Since then, we’ve installed green roofs on our factories to save energy. We’ve turned raw sugarcane into fantastic plastic packaging that is 100% renewable, reusable and recyclable. We’ve won awards for our products’ exceptional cleaning power and we’ve even offered our technology to our industry competitors. We don’t mind sharing - not if it means less impact on the environment.

We’re very proud to have built our brand on respect, integrity and commitment. But we couldn’t have done it without a helping hand from Nature, and some invaluable feedback from you. Like our customers, we recognise that plastic packaging is a major problem - not only does it clutter up your home, the plastic is made from crude oil. It’s an increasingly scarce resource and we all know the problems associated with oil spills and pollution… So for three years now we’ve been working to find a new, alternative packaging solution that starts to address some of these issues. We’re very proud of the results.

By harnessing the power of nature and applying a little clever science, we’ve implemented an innovative new PolyEthylene (PE) - a green plastic we call Plant-astic that’s 100% renewable, reusable and recyclable - and made from sugarcane! We’re so pleased with it that we’re making our bottles 100% Plant-astic. It’s also good to see that some other well-known brands are now thinking of following our lead - even if they initially only intend using up to 30% renewable plastic. Manufacturing our new Plant-astic is unbelievably simple. Sugarcane is harvested to produce sugar, which is then fermented and distilled to produce ethanol. This ethanol is dehydrated to create ethylene, which is polymerized into Plant-astic. That’s really all there is to it!