How environmentally friendly are they?
Green Oil products are the greenest chain lubes and bike cleaners around.
100% petrochemical free
Green Oil products are created from naturally occurring oils and plant extracts to provide you with the same qualities you would expect from a quality bike maintenance kit.
Biodegradable
Although, Green Oil chain lube remains on the chain longer than most oils, when Green Oil does eventually come off the chain, it will over time biodegrade. The whole Green Oil range is totally biodegradable after its life on your bike.
Not irritant, not harmful, nor 'dangerous for the environment'
Look on most chain lube bottles and you will be horrified to see that not only are they harmful or irritant, but that they explicitly say 'dangerous for the environment' on the back.
The Green Oil range of products are not harmful, not irritant, and not 'dangerous for the environment'. So the Green Oil range will not harm you, aquatic life or small animals
Not tested on animals
Green Oil products have not been tested on animals (unless you call the various mountain and road cyclists who first tested it 'animals').
All Green Oil products use only ingredients that occur naturally and are safe. None of the ingredients, nor the finished product have been animal tested. Green Oil products contains no animal products or by-products, and are suitable for vegetarians and vegans.
Recyclable, and Re-usable
Reduce, re-use, recycle the saying goes. Green Oil's bottle can not only be recycled with your plastic milk bottles, but can also be re-used.
Green Oil's bottle has the recycling code is 2. The cap is unfortunately made of polypropylene. This is plastic type 5 and not usually recyclable.
Green Oil bottles are made out of HDPE, or 'High Density Polyethylene', with the recycling code 2 shown above.
All Green Oil bottles have a recycled paper label. This can be removed, and recycled again, possibly into a new Green Oil label!
CFC Free
Green Oil products are all CFC free, but CFCs were pretty much banned in 1993 under the Montreal Protocol. 'CFC free' is meaningless marketing today.
100% palm oil free
Green Oil's ingredients are a trade secret, they are sustainably sourced and half the ingredients are organic. However, bio-fuels, vegetable oil, and even shampoo often contain 'palm oil'.
Palm oil is a useful fuel to keep car culture going, a cheap cooking substance to keep up the old obesity rates, and useful to 'bulk up' supermarket items, like cheap peanut butter and shampoo.
The problem with this? Palm oil relies on vast swathes of rainforest being cleared. Great, bio-diverse areas are destroyed and replaced by vast palm oil plantations. They even burn rainforest and peat bogs in order to grow palm oil, outweighing any carbon neutrality of using the end product.
This is at the expense of the environment, wildlife (especially orang-utans) and indigenous people.
Green Oil is therefore 100% palm oil free.
100% petrochemical free
Green Oil products are created from naturally occurring oils and plant extracts to provide you with the same qualities you would expect from a quality bike maintenance kit.
Biodegradable
Although, Green Oil chain lube remains on the chain longer than most oils, when Green Oil does eventually come off the chain, it will over time biodegrade. The whole Green Oil range is totally biodegradable after its life on your bike.
Not irritant, not harmful, nor 'dangerous for the environment'
Look on most chain lube bottles and you will be horrified to see that not only are they harmful or irritant, but that they explicitly say 'dangerous for the environment' on the back.
The Green Oil range of products are not harmful, not irritant, and not 'dangerous for the environment'. So the Green Oil range will not harm you, aquatic life or small animals
Not tested on animals
Green Oil products have not been tested on animals (unless you call the various mountain and road cyclists who first tested it 'animals').
All Green Oil products use only ingredients that occur naturally and are safe. None of the ingredients, nor the finished product have been animal tested. Green Oil products contains no animal products or by-products, and are suitable for vegetarians and vegans.
Recyclable, and Re-usable
Reduce, re-use, recycle the saying goes. Green Oil's bottle can not only be recycled with your plastic milk bottles, but can also be re-used.
Green Oil's bottle has the recycling code is 2. The cap is unfortunately made of polypropylene. This is plastic type 5 and not usually recyclable.
Green Oil bottles are made out of HDPE, or 'High Density Polyethylene', with the recycling code 2 shown above.
All Green Oil bottles have a recycled paper label. This can be removed, and recycled again, possibly into a new Green Oil label!
CFC Free
Green Oil products are all CFC free, but CFCs were pretty much banned in 1993 under the Montreal Protocol. 'CFC free' is meaningless marketing today.
100% palm oil free
Green Oil's ingredients are a trade secret, they are sustainably sourced and half the ingredients are organic. However, bio-fuels, vegetable oil, and even shampoo often contain 'palm oil'.
Palm oil is a useful fuel to keep car culture going, a cheap cooking substance to keep up the old obesity rates, and useful to 'bulk up' supermarket items, like cheap peanut butter and shampoo.
The problem with this? Palm oil relies on vast swathes of rainforest being cleared. Great, bio-diverse areas are destroyed and replaced by vast palm oil plantations. They even burn rainforest and peat bogs in order to grow palm oil, outweighing any carbon neutrality of using the end product.
This is at the expense of the environment, wildlife (especially orang-utans) and indigenous people.
Green Oil is therefore 100% palm oil free.