Are you worried about the potential health risks of non-stick? We are holding a Non-Stick Pan Amnesty to encourage you to trade in your old pan for a new form of non-stick called GreenPan. You can either bring your old pan for recycling to one of our cookshops in Reigate or Cobham, or post it to us. We'll take £5.00 off your first purchase of GreenPan.
Toxicity research
We came up with the idea of the Non-Stick Pan Amnesty because we have become concerned by recent studies that have shown the possible dangers of overheating non-stick coatings which contain PFOA. The fumes that are released from the chemicals in most non-sticks that are overheated are toxic. Overheating is defined as around 260°C. This is a temperature that a non-stick pan can easily achieve on any hob.
Revolutionary new form of non-stick
We are now recommending an alternative to our customers that we feel is better than ordinary non-sticks. GreenPan has a ceramic coating called Thermolon, which is made of silica, rather than the traditional PTFE (plastic film) non-stick coating. Its ceramic coating is free from PTFE and manufactured without PFOA so it gives off no noxious fumes at very high temperatures that some old style non-sticks do.
The proof of the pudding
We have been trying GreenPan at home for about six months and we’ve not treated it gently (we have three teenage children). It has been in regular, almost daily use. It cooks everything as well as our SKK and Anolon frying pans. Both of these makes, we hold in high regard. It has a lovely light grey, glossy interior, that’s consistently easy to clean.
Green credentials
Having been ‘green’ for a number of years, we like the sound of GreenPan’s green credentials. The process of making a plastic based non-stick pan is not very kind to the environment. High temperatures are required to spray conventional non-sticks, which also need several coatings. With GreenPan, only one coating is needed at a much lower temperature with a 60% saving of fuel. Happily, this is reflected in the price to the consumer.
The GreenPan Company have gone to considerable lengths to use recycled materials in both the pans and the packaging. Typhoon, the UK GreenPan importer, is planting a tree in India for every pan they sell.
Recycle your old pan and get paid for it!
We are so enthused by the pan in use and its green credentials that we’ve come up with a Non-Stick Pan Amnesty. Now, you can recycle your old non-stick pan and we’ll take £5.00 off your first purchase of GreenPan. So, if you have an old deteriorating non-stick pan, we will take it and recycle it for you. You can either bring your old pan for recycling to one of Art of Living’s cookshops in Reigate or Cobham, or post it to us.
How to take part
Return any non-stick pan to us and we'll recycle it for you. If you are an online customer, to cover your postage, we'll give you a voucher that will automatically deduct £5.00 off your first purchase of GreenPan. If you can pop into either of our cookshops at Reigate or Cobham, the discount will be deducted at the till.
Online customers who wish to take part in the 'Non-Stick Pan Amnesty' can post any non-stick pan to our warehouse at: Art of Living, 51 Albert Road North, Reigate, Surrey, UK, RH2 9EL. Include your email or postal address and we will send you a voucher number that you can use when prompted, on our website.
The Non-Stick Pan Amnesty ends on 31 January 2009.
Best wishes,
Andrew & Babette Bluett-Duncan
Directors of Art of Living
Sources:
US Environmental Protection Agency http://www.epa.gov/oppt/pfoa/pubs/pfoainfo.htm
By Richard Ehrlich in The Times: Green kitchen: the sticky question of nonstick http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/food_and_drink/article4935277.ece
Green kitchen: the non-stick panacea http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/food_and_drink/article4980121.ece
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