Heavy Duty Degreaser Concentrate 500ml

Heavy Duty Degreaser Concentrate keeps your kitchen grease-free and does as little damage as possible to you and your environment.

• Readily biodegradeable
• Non-hazardous
• Non-toxic
• Non-fuming
• Non-corrosive
• Food grade
• Septic safe
• Highly concentrated
• Supplied in recyclable and reusable packaging
• Manufactured to meet waste minimisation standards

And you don't have to take my word for it because it is certified as an environmentally preferable product by GECA (Good Environmental Choice Australia), Australia's only independent environmental standards and eco-label organisation.

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What is in the bottle?

• Advanced Proprietary Surfactant Blend
• Sodium Sesquicarbonate
• Sodium Citrate
• Sodium Benzoate

What is definitely not in the bottle?

• Palm Oil from un RSPO certified sources
• Palm Kernal Oil from un RSPO certified sources
• Phosphorus Compounds
• Pathogenic Microorganisms
• Microorganisms not susceptible to TGA recognised disinfectant
• Impure microorganisms
• Bacteria
• Alkylphenol ethoxylates and other alkyphenol derivatives
• Quaternary Ammonium compounds
• Aziridine or polyaziridines
• Benzotriazole and its derivatives
• Ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid (EDTA)
• Diethylenetriaminepenaacetic acid (DTPA)
• Nitrilotriacetic acid (NTA)
• Halogens and Halogenated compounds (except sodium chloride) 
• Heavy metals
• Linear alkylbenzene sulfonates (LAS)
• Monoethanolamine (MEA)
• Triethanolamine (TEA)
• Musk fragrances
• Phosphonates
• Selenium and Selenium compounds
• Substances listed in Annex III of the Rotterdam Convention
• Persistent Organic Pollutants (listed in the Stockholm Convention)
• Potentially bioaccumulative substances

OK, OK, you've convinced me. I love it. But how do I use it?

This Heavy Duty Degreaser is supplied as a concentrate. This gives you heaps of flexibility in the way you use it, but for most degreasing you'll only need to add 15ml of concentrate to 485ml of water. You now have 500ml of ready to use Heavy Duty Degreaser.

I know right? One 500ml bottle of Heavy Duty Degreaser concentrate will fill a 500ml spray bottle 32 times. Good for your wallet and bad for packaging manufacturers. And Supermarkets. And transport operators. Hah!

Where is it made?

And it is locally made. Here in Sydney. Not in Europe. Or New Zealand. Or the United States.

What size are these bottles?

This Heavy Duty Degreaser Concentrate is available in 500ml and 5L bottles.

Why is the packaging on the 500ml bottles so unusual?

There's a bit of a story behind this, but this is what you need to know:

The 500ml bottles are readily recyclable PET. We wanted to be sure that they could actually be recycled if they went into your recycling bin, so we asked some basic questions about the type of labels and adhesives we could use to ensure this would happen. We didn't get a single useful answer. So we threw up our hands and made labels that could be reused, without glue.

Each product comes with two labels: a coloured silicone band and a polypropylene neck tag.

The coloured silicone band is designed to be used over and over again. The Heavy Duty Degreaser Concentrate comes with a mauve band. This band fits our 500ml blank spray bottle but is flexible enough to fit a range of spray bottles so you are not forced to buy a new bottle when you start using this product.

The neck tag is not readily recyclable, but is designed to be reused. It is made out of Polypropylene. It is designed to stay on the neck of the concentrated product so that you always know what is in the bottle, and so that you have easy access to usage instructions. When you have used up all your product, remove this label. Turn it over. On the back is a postage paid address that you can use to return this label to the manufacturer for reuse.

The bottle itself can go into your council recycling bin.