Waste gets the sack

The use of compostable refuse sacks reached a new record this year with over 786,000 being used during the Olympics. It's believed that more large compostable sacks were used this summer than were used by the entire UK in the last year.

The stimulus was LOCOG (The London Olympic Organising Committee) setting the target of the games being the greenest ever. A key part of that was to collect and recycle as much waste as possible, with a range of distinctive sacks to enable waste separation at source.

'The fact that LOCOG selected our sacks as the greenest and most cost effective solution to their refuse problem shows we have been heading in the right direction with our green strategy,' says Brian Chapman, MD of The Supplies House (sole supplier of refuse sacks).