With bags for life, multi-coloured bins to put out each week and conscious upcycling at home, we’re doing more to protect our environment and reduce waste. But how much packaging can you actually recycle? How many times do you find yourself throwing product bottles away, because there’s not systems in place. But this all could change as the UK’s first subscription-based, household brand, has launched.
Ocean Saver is a company which sets out to reduce plastic consumption with its household solutions but can they match what’s currently on the market? We carried out a test to find out.
Picking out the multipurpose solution, we tested it out against three top supermarkets’ own brand multi purpose surface cleaners to see if it stands up to the job.
Tomato sauce is the bane of most cooks’ lives; it splats up the walls, splashes on sideboards as you’re serving up and is a stubborn crust to remove if you forget about it overnight. So that’s exactly what we did.
Using some tomato sauce, we pasted it onto white tiles next to each other and left it overnight. It might not be a Good Housekeeping Institute test, but it’s practical in a real life working kitchen. (No, I don’t cook like I’ve left a blender lid off normally).
Despite my fear that I would be left with tomato-crusted tiles for all of eternity, it actually lifted quite quickly. For each of the stains, I used a kitchen towel after one spray of each per tile giving them the same amount of time to get to work.
With two wipes with the clean kitchen paper towel on each, you can see the results.
As you can see, all four cleaning products did the job. The second one stood out as the easiest and cleanest wipe of them all. But that being said, there wasn’t much between them. Which goes to show that the Ocean Saver, placed up against the other supermarket brands can really hold its own.
Unlike the brands you buy in the supermarket which already come in their own bottles, ready made, you can dig out an old bottle (750ml) and use warm water to mix your own solution and dissolve the soluble pod, which is similar to the washing detergent capsules. I did initially try to mix with cold water, but realised my error quickly and to re-checked the instructions to use warm so I could start using it straight away. After a few moments we were back on track.
Can you guess which one it is? It was C.
Take a second to think about how many bottles sit underneath your kitchen sink. Which then leaves the question, how many do you end up throwing away? Well, you can reduce the amount you have to sling in the bin by using Ocean Saver as its designed to reduce the amount of plastic you need.
The Ocean Saver is a box of cleaning goodies in the form of concentrated, water-soluble pods that transform into liquid cleaner. The cleaning products have been designed based on that most products we use are 90 per cent water, so an innovative solution was created around this, to make life cheaper, easier and cleaner.
The Ocean Saver team believes that there is too much plastic waste in our oceans causing pollution and choking marine life, so they committed to finding solutions without comprising on quality or effectiveness.
Over 300 million tonnes of plastic is made each year, sometimes just to be used for a few seconds before ending up in the bin. If you want an idea of how much that is, it’s the equivalent to the weight of the entire adult population of the whole world, according to plasticoceans.uk. Every year, up to 12 million tonnes of that plastic ends up in our oceans, where dolphins, whales, turtles and other sea creatures are forced to live, or die, with our waste.
John Buitekant, Ocean Saver’s founder said: ‘We set out to create a brand which helps reduce our impact on the environment- it was that simple. When we built that into our mission, the rest followed naturally. That’s how we invented products that are environmentally-conscious and also economical for the consumer. We’re immensely proud to be able to launch our first product which is 100% biodegradable and gives consumers a reason not to contribute to the plastic waste clogging up our oceans and endangering marine life. We believe that small changes make big waves.’
Ocean Saver offers a subscription service, right to your front door, where the recyclable box contains pods suitable for kitchens, bathrooms, glass, multi-purpose (as tested) and floors and they come with labels too so you don’t mix up your window cleaner on your floor. So everything you would normally buy, but without the bulk and waste – which frees up valuable cupboard space.
Gone are the days of the copious half-used bottles which sit beneath your sink but instead, you’ll have an ordered system with less waste as even the box it is delivered in is 100% biodegradable as Ocean Saver is fierce over its promise to reduce unnecessary packaging. Sounds like a win-win to us.
From £6.99, you can get a subscription box each month. For more information visit https://www.ocean-saver.com/.
