Lake Waseosa Ratepayers' Association

For many years now, the LWRA has been encouraging you to protect our lake, in part by using environmentally friendly cleaners. We now have an opportunity to help you with this endeavour.

A local Huntsville company, Lord and Partners, is a leading manufacturer and supplier of Non WHMIS and Non Regulated environmentally responsible solvents, cleaners and specialty products for industry, government and similar institutions around the world. They do not market their product line for the retail consumer, however, through the efforts of Bill Somers, they have agreed to sell to us, provided we purchase in case lots.

Our cost is $10 per litre bottle, plus PST and GST. We will sell it to you at $12 per litre, no tax. So you will, quite literally, be getting industrial strength cleaners at wholesale prices. Save the environment and save money at the same time -- you can't ask for better than that!

Bill has had a number of people test some of these cleaners and all report they are very effective. Reports say they do the job as well as products with harsh chemicals. Some of the products are multi-purpose, and the user dilutes the concentrate with water according to need. For example, the "Super Green Concentrate" all-purpose cleaner/degreaser is mixed 10:1 for heavy duty cleaning like appliances or toilets but diluted 150:1 for windows or mirrors.

We have reviewed their product line, and come up with a short list of products we think our members might be interested in.

NEW: Skone Bilge Cleaner. This product is safe to wash your boat with in and around our fragile lakes. Dilute up to 10:1. (Incidentally, during our product testing we found it makes an excellent engine degreaser as well and can be used to clean up oil spots spilled on a garage floor.)

Apple Safety Bowl  A bio-degradable bathroom cleaner.

Hair & Body Soap  Replace your bar soap with a pump dispenser and refill with this product. Less mess and easy on the lake.

Multi Clean  A scouring cleaner. Dilute with water for spraying or light cleaning.

Super Green  A biodegradeable general purpose non-scouring cleaner. This is their flagship product. Dilute up to 150:1, depending on use.

To order, either use the contact form on the left or call Dwayne Verhey: 705-788-3693

 For more information on each of these products, Please download the respective Data Sheet (pdf format) attached below. 

One of our members inquired:

"One question - what does it mean that it is non- Workplace Hazardous
Material Information System (a Health Canada effort) and non-regulated?
Shouldn't we be concerned? Who's tested these?"

"Non-WHMIS" means the product has been evaluated as completely safe and does not require labelling or data sheets under the Workplace Hazardous Material Information System.

"Non-Regulated" means it is considered completely safe under the Clean Water Act, the Clean Air Act and the Right to Know Act.

Bill Somers has investigated this company and their products quite thoroughly for us. The products have all been tested under the "EcoLogo" program of Environment Canada and certified to meet the international ISO 14024 standard.

The EcoLogo program is what ISO calls a Type I eco-label - a multi-attribute, life-cycle based certification program. This means that the criteria reflect all of the potential environmental impacts from the entire life-cycle of the product or service type. EcoLogo sets criteria that only the best (environmentally speaking) 20% of products in any category will be able to meet.

Note: They do not evaluate the effectiveness of the product against performance claims. You could bottle distilled water, call it a cleaner , and get an EcoLogo certification for it. (I can just see it: "NEW! Try our Di-hydrogen oxide Universal Solvent. Only $19.99 per litre bottle" Order now and we'll throw in this special blue perforated cleaning cloth absolutely free. Call now with your credit card, operators are standing by!") Bill's research indicates that the L&P products are both safe AND effective.

The LWRA executive believes that whatever brand of product you choose in the end, choosing one that bears the EcoLogo label is better for our lakes than unlabelled alternatives. For more information on the EcoLogo program, please see their website at http://www.ecologo.org.