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Thank you Mountain Sky for donating soap to Canadian Food for Children. Children all over the world can have clean hands thanks to your company.
- Fay Iaonnea
Penticton, BC
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We at Mountain Sky care about the environment. We have several programs at Mountain Sky that helps our planet.
Shipping Boxes – Often shipping boxes are used once. The manufacturer sends their products to the retailer. Retailers often then fold the boxes up for recycling. We collect those boxes for re-use to send to our customers. We go around to our local health food store outlets and collect their boxes. If you have ever ordered off our website, you might get a box that says Nature Path Cereal, but rest assured it actually contains our wonderful product.
Box Fill – When we ship product, we often have to fill the sides of the boxes with fill so the products are not damaged in transit. We collect bags of shredded paper from local offices, and banks, as well as shredding all our paper waste. All of our shredded paper can still be put in the recycle bin after it is used as box fill.
Buckets – We receive tons of coconut oil in buckets. Fortunately, we live in a rural area where people love free buckets and know what to do with them. We also ship all our soap ends with Canadian food for children in these handy buckets. We have been told that these buckets have been used to store precious water, food and dry clothes in times of disaster in third world countries.
Soap ends – All of our soaps that are not absolutely perfect in shape and scent, we sell them off our Internet site or ship them to people in need through the Canadian Food for Children program.
If we cannot re-use something we will recycle. We collect cans, paper, and cardboard and bring them to our local recycling bins.
All food waste from the staff kitchen and compostible product waste are composted.
As we live in the Canadian mountains, we have had probems with bears. We first had an open bin compost which attracted bears. Then we rigged up a turning barrel composter, but the bear figured out how to open it by turning the barrel around. Now we have found the ultimate bear proof composter. We have two concrete 4 foot high well rings. As you can see it is quite the operation. But it works, and is very bear proof.