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About Us

Environmental ethos

Snow Business

Everyday is a snow day!!

Think back to the last movie you saw with snow. It almost certainly was our snow. We’ve been creating snowflakes, snowdrifts and throwing artificial snowballs at famous faces for over thirty years.

Invention has always been at the heart of what we do. We’ve created a high-speed hot wax spray for The Day After Tomorrow, smashed a Guinness World Record and helped the makers of Hugo capture falling snow in 3D for the first time. Put simply, we never say never.

Sustainable Snow

Protecting the world that inspires us

We’re obsessed with recreating the magic of the natural world, so we have no desire to spoil it.

When Snow Business began in 1983, we were the only special effects company making snow from recycled paper. Today, our mission to make artificial snow as sustainable as possible continues and we strive constantly to replace any plastic packaging or product with sustainable alternatives.

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The complete package

We’ve made great strides in developing and sourcing bio-based and bio-compostable alternatives to traditional plastics.

  • In fact, 70% of our products and packaging are now sustainable.

    • SnowCel: Our hero product, made from recycled paper, was transferred into bio-compostable packaging in 2015.
    • We have replaced our polyester ice sparkle with a cellulose-based bio-degradable glitter.
    • Even the nozzles used in our snow machines are made from recycled plastic.
    • We worked with the University of Bristol to develop environmentally friendly snow fluids – EcoFlake and ProFlake. They are biodegradable and so gentle that the Eden Project has used them to decorate its biomes.

  • Eden Project photo copyright Mark Shaw photography - www.markshawphotography.co.uk

Reduce, reuse, recycle

Finding eco-friendly substitutes that meet all of our creative, physical and safety requirements is a challenge.

  • If suitable alternatives don’t exist, we ensure all remaining plastic products and packaging are reusable, widely recyclable or made from at least 50% recycled material.
    Currently we're:

    • Reusing cardboard boxes to send products out to our customers
    • Moving from traditional plastic tape on our packaging to a paper-based version that can be recycled along with the boxes
    • Improving our labelling to advise customers on how best to recycle our packaging
    • Working with Surfers Against Sewage and TerraCycle to ensure we’re recycling all waste generated here at the Snow Mill.

Reducing our footprint

We are proud to be a sustainable supplier for The Albert Initiative.

  • This BAFTA-backed initiative provides the film and TV industry with the necessary expertise and opportunities it needs to take action on environmental sustainability.

    We are constantly looking at ways to reduce our ecological footprint..
    Pay us a visit and you will find an array of solar panels in our meadow that provide a significant percentage of our electricity. We have a BioDisc that processes all our foul water on site. We have over 500 newly planted trees. We work with the Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust in maintaining a wild life corridor through our land that provides habitat and food for mammals, fish and birds. We have developed equipment that can be remotely interrogated and operated saving maintenance miles. We have a Zoom suite that saves meeting miles. We source as much as possible locally. Overall, 65% of our electricity comes from renewable sources and we are working to increase that year on year. Find out more about The Albert Initiative

Case Study

Environmental ethos

Christmas at Eden

In the spring of 2014, The Eden project approached Snow Business with the idea of making it snow inside one of their greenhouse biomes.

Providing snow that could be used in the biggest tropical biome in the world was an exciting challenge, but one that could not risk doing any damage to their unique collection of tropical plants, or the delicate soil they grow in.

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