Cleaning Up Olympic-Sized Challenges On Track For Envirofriendly

With the solution to liquid waste management issues, Envirofriendly has clients throughout Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands and currently has trial projects running in Singapore, Hong Kong, the United States and Brazil. One of the trials involves investigating the clean-up of a major water feature that will be used for the Olympics and World Cup to be held in Brazil. Neil Christie (pictured) is the developer of the Envirofriendly process and owner of the business. Read More

Envirofriendly was one of 40 organisations participating in Queensland’s first Sustainability Showcase for the Minister of Climate Change and Sustainability Kate Jones at Parliament House, Brisbane last week. Don Norton, consultant to Envirofriendly, contributed this article:

Business owners in South East Queensland with grease traps that feed into the council sewer systems should be aware that between now and 2013 all councils will be moving towards charging businesses according to the strength of the effluent that flows into the sewer.

Those businesses with high effluent levels will find their council charges increasing while those that take steps to reduce and manage their effluent discharge levels will benefit.

For those businesses wishing to save money and manage their effluent problems there is a solution to the issue, which is approved for use by the Brisbane City Council and other councils in South east Queensland.

Neil Christie started Envirofriendly more than 15 years ago. The Brisbane based company provides an effective microbial waste management solution.

“It is proven to reduce effluent discharge, reduce grease trap evacuations by more than 50% and is already saving businesses substantial amounts of money”, says Mr Christie, Managing Director of Envirofriendly and business owner, who developed the process using microbes.

Retail clients use the company’s product Drainsolv in commercial kitchens in restaurants and food courts, shopping centres, hotels convention centres and even hospitals. It is proven to eliminate unpleasant odours, extend grease trap evacuations to once every 12 weeks – or in some cases even more – rather than every three of four weeks, reduce blockages and reduce effluent discharge into council systems.

The company services one Brisbane commercial building where Drainsolv is applied to four 2300 litre grease traps that service five restaurants in the complex, giving an annual cost saving of more than $14 000.

In the Redlands Shire near Brisbane two shopping centres that use Drainsolv are gaining substantial cost savings by evacuating grease traps every 12 weeks, while the remaining centres in the area evacuate every four weeks.

Apart from Drainsolv, Envirofriendly has a product range of five other key products designed to deal with a broad range of liquid management issues.

“All Envirofriendly products contain 14 different types of microbes that have been specifically developed to break down various types of waste,” says Mr Christie. “All the microbes are naturally occurring, are non-toxic and will not harm humans or animals”.

He explains that all products are produced in liquid form in a ready-to-use state and are simply applied during the daily cleaning process. Where this is not suitable Envirofriendly can provide dosing machines to ensure regular and controlled amounts are introduced into waste systems.

The product L200 eliminates smells and improves effective operation of sewage treatment plants. It can also be used to eliminate odours and speed up the breakdown of waste in large commercial waste dumps. A trial in the main dump in Shanghai produced substantial results with both liquid and solid waste in 48 hours, many days quicker than 23 other international products trialed at the same time.

UrinalKleen ensures effective operation of both waterless and flushing urinals in men’s toilets. In one case in a 40 level commercial building in Brisbane use of the product has reduced flushing cycles from once every two minutes in a ten hour day to just two janitorial flushes per day, saving many hundreds of thousand of litres of water per year. It is estimated that the water saving cost in this building alone is more than $48 000 per year.

The product is being used in a number of toilets in shopping centres and is being introduced to further multi story buildings to reduce odours, clear blocked pipe work and ensure efficient operation of the toilets.

FriendlyKleen breaks down dangerous and slippery grease and waste on tiled kitchen and bathroom floors and will also break down mould.

KontainerKleen will eliminate waste build up and odours in large industrial waste bins and skips and can be used just as effectively in “wheely bins”.

Envirofriendly also has a product, Aquabac, that can be used in water features, prawn and fish farms that will control the build up of algae and other damaging bacteria in the water thus promoting healthier fish and marine life.

Today Envirofriendly has more than 500 satisfied commercial clients and more than 4000 retail clients using various microbial products in a wide range of uses. The clients include shopping centres, commercial office buildings, convention centres, hospitals, fast food outlets, hotels, holiday resorts, government departments and local councils.

If your business has a liquid waste management issue or is paying too much in council effluent charges, visit the Envirofriendly website or call on 1800 626 334.

Source: www.envirofriendly.com.au