Piper now leading 1st EnviroSafety Inc.
Company continues advancements and research in nanotechnology with products in sanitation industry
Daniel Piper has taken over for his late grandfather, Ted Tidwell, not only in ownership of his company, 1st EnviroSafety Inc., but in his research and continued passion for the exploration of what can be done utilizing nanotechnology in the industry of sanitation. Purely Green (100 or 25) are the sanitation concentrates they have currently available. These products can be used to clean just about everything in the house, he said, with no perfumes or odors.
“Cleaning is really just chemistry sold as a product,” Piper said.
Although their Purely Green line is the most popular of their sanitizing products, Piper said, around the time of the COVID pandemic, the company developed a hygienic line of soaps. These soaps, he said, were specially designed to have more foaming action in order to introduce more oxygen to cleaning, which creates better penetration on a microscopic level for more thorough cleaning.
“When you’re cleaning, the nano-particles actually get out and penetrate more surfaces on a molecular level, so you get a better clean,” Piper said.
After the success of having invented Tidwell’s sanitation products, it was discovered in 2003 that the products also help plants grow, Piper said. The citrus industry has been largely affected by the Asian citrus psyllid bug, which feeds on the sap of citrus trees and spreads the bacteria responsible for citrus greening, Piper explained, because currently he is most excited about the company’s involvement with Citrus Green protocols.
1st EnviroSafety’s product, Bio Wash, has been turning heads for years as Piper said, in agriculture it is used as a bio stimulant or a surfactant as well as an adjuvant.
“The bio stimulant is something that improves or stimulates growth in the plant. There’s hormonal bio stimulant — which a lot of those are banned around the globe, because they cause a lot of other issues — but in plant cells, instead of getting rapid cell replication you can get elongated cells, which end up growing funny shaped leaves and parts of the plant start looking like they’re going through a fun-house mirror. It’s just not good. It can also cause health issues in the plant — if the phloem tubes are growing weird sizes then nutrition isn’t traveling through the plant’s tubes properly,” Piper said.
Bio Wash, when it’s acting as a bio stimulant is different, he said, as it is not changing the size of the cells but rather is stimulating rapid cell replication, which is actually new growth, but not with distended cells. Instead, they are the healthy cells they were intended to be, he said, in a much timelier manner, as the process has been sped up.
“You’re not actually interfering with the hormonal balance of the plant or the way the plant grows, you’re just making it easier for the plant to grow. It ends up having a lubrication effect inside the plant on a molecular level — the fact that it’s nano-particles is what lets it work,” Piper said.
Simply put, 1st EnviroSafety Inc. products are designed to make it easier for plants to get nutrition from the soil into its leaves and into its fruit. Piper likens using the plant products to the use of clean oil in your car’s engine. The car will run more smoothly minus the sludge, he said.
“With our product, when you’re doing a Bio Wash application or you’re doing a soil application and applying it to the roots, it’s chelating the nutrition and it’s helping to make those molecules and particles smaller so they’re more easily absorbed by the plant while also helping it carry and move that nutrition,” Piper said.
1st EnviroSafety Inc. is at 10200 Betsy Parkway, St. James City. For information on products please visit the following websites: 1stEnviroSafety.com, purelygreenclean.com, fertilizerboosters.com or 1stbiopesticide.com
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