Every new beginning comes from some other beginnings end.
– Semisonic
How to say good-bye to your ECOMAX Brush
We craft our products from the natural materials we find around us, coconut, sisal, jute, luffa, cotton, rubberwood, neem, alstonia. Vegetable fibres such as these are carbon neutral. We only use natural materials and quality craftsmanship for our products so they will last, can be reused and will ultimately biodegrade back into the earth.
A circular economy favours reducing, reusing, refurbishing, repairing and recycling to reduce waste, we design our products with this goal in mind.
Can I really just throw my brush in the compost?
Yep, throw it in with your vegie scraps, dried leaves and grass clippings. The micro-organisms in your compost bin love eating the natural fibres.
What if I have a worm farm?
Worms love coconut husk, if fact they love all vegetable fibres. They gobble them down and ask for seconds!
How long do I have to wait for the brush to disappear?
The bristles will slowly be eaten until nothing remains. It takes about 3-6 month for all the fibres to be eaten. No need to remove the wire the organisms will happily eat around it leaving it to recycle when you spread your compost. You may not have the patience to wait for a wooden handle to whittle down to nothing. If that is the case you can always get creative and reuse it to create a vegetable name garden stake or a peg doll.
I’m pretty sure wire is not biodegradable
Sure, once the bristles have been turned into rich soil and you spread it throughout your garden, simply pluck out the left-over wire and add it to your stash of metal for recycling. Steel can be recycled an infinite number of times. It uses 75% less energy when made from recycled metal than from raw materials (unfortunately we are unable to buy recycled steel for our brushes as it all just gets lumped in together as the one steel end product). There are many scrap metal recyclers in major cities and most councils collect scrap metal usually at their special event recycling days rather than your weekly recycle bin.
How long will my brush last?
That really depends on how fastidious you are with your cleaning! Many people comment that our kitchen scrubber will scrub pots well for a good 6 months or more. Then once your brush starts looking shabby it can become the bbq cleaner (coconut bristles work a treat on hot grills!), then when it can no longer handle the rigours of the bbq relegate it to cleaning the dog bowl and when it is too threadbare for even that it is time to let it rest in your backyard compost bin.
