Cleanzine: your weekly cleaning and hygiene industry newsletter 19th January 2023 Issue no. 1048
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Autodrome of Modena’s RCM sweeper still a winner 10 years on
RJN trigger sprays colour-coded and recycled too!
Seven sustainability trends that will impact cleaning industry in 2023
RAS launches latest ‘Guide to Better Public Toilet Design & Maintenance’
Integrating sustainability into warehouse processes and technologies
Who do you think should feature in ISSA's '100 Years of Legacy Celebration'?
Hygiene industry experts join forces
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We had a chuckle at home this week over the story of a woman who, angered by fly-tipping in her village, investigated the pile and discovered an unopened letter revealing the address from which the rubbish had come. Having contacted Stroud Council for permission, she loaded everything into her trailer and dumped it in the front garden of the property concerned. Justice done? I'm not so sure... In looking into the story, I learned that the householder said the rubbish must have belonged to the previous tenant as it certainly wasn't his, which means he may have well been left with an unpleasant clean-up job he didn't deserve to have. I'm now wondering whether he reported the woman who dumped it in his garden, for fly-tipping in turn, and if so, what happened next. In another recent incident, Jakub Watemborski's empty parcel was found amongst fly-tipped rubbish by Enfield Council investigators, who slapped him with a £400 fine. The only problem was that the parcel, which bore his address, turned out to be all that remained of a pair of shoes he'd been sent for Christmas which hadn't, as far as he was aware, arrived at his Barnet home. As the parcel had been found near the delivery company's depot in an area he'd not visited, he assumed that either the driver had dumped it or the package had been stolen from the depot. Inspecting the incriminating evidence, he realised that the date on the parcel corresponded to a parcel the company had 'lost' after the delivery couldn't be carried out 'due to bad weather', on what had been a sunny afternoon. Enfield Council has since rescinded the fine. I've always been of the opinion that if our councils made it easier for us to take unwanted items to the local civic amenity tip - and didn't charge us for the privilege, far fewer people would resort to fly-tipping. It's not quite as cut & dried as that though, is it? With more and more opportunist thieves reportedly stealing parcels from our doorsteps, so many other parcels being left at the wrong properties and others being stolen from the depots and vans themselves, how can councils be sure that 'evidence' found in fly-tipped piles actually points to the culprit, and hasn't been left there by someone breaking the law in a completely different way? Apart from more CCTV surveillance, I don't really see how we can get around this one, do you?
Yours,
 This Week's News
Vectair welcomes Claire Reid as head of marketing innovation & portfolio management
Founded more than 30 years ago, Vectair Systems now delivers sanitary and scent solutions to more than 100 countries. Its brands - including Airoma, P-Screen, Wee-Screen and V-Air Solid, are featured in facilities around the globe.  Probiotic cleaning listed as new technology in Robert Koch Institute guidelines for hospital hygiene
They now include probiotics as a sustainable and proven way to contribute to improved hospital hygiene by creating more beneficial surface microbiology in hospitals and other health facilities. 
This is very welcome news for gym owners that survived the pandemic.   More than 139 audits and 4,170 individual products tested by CHSA inspectors in 2022
With such high levels of compliance, buyers and end users of these products can be certain 'what's on the box was what's in the box'. BCC pays tribute to one of its original founders: 'A huge debt of thanks' is owed to Terry King
The WCEC, the Industrial Cleaning Machine Manufacturers` Association, the Janitorial Supply Association, the British Association for Chemical Specialities, the British Institute of Cleaning Science, the Federation of Window Cleaners and the National Carpet Cleaners Association became founder members of the BCC.  Senior FM stakeholders to discuss industry's future at renowned Innovation Lab annual conference
Set in the Manchester Central Convention Complex, the event promises to deliver a day of solution exploration, professional development and networking to assist businesses in overcoming today's challenges while providing a platform to take on tomorrow's. 
It helped specifiers achieve commercial benefits equal to £2.8 billion in 2021/22. Window cleaning firms and employees invited to enter national competition
The winners will receive an engraved trophy, framed certificate and £100 gift voucher and will also be announced at the Cleaning Show at Excel London, which runs from 14th through 16th March, 2023. Sodexo affords BASF a winning formula
Sodexo has delivered services to BASF for over 30 years, and since 2014 Sodexo has been delivering full integrated facilities management services at six BASF sites in the UK and Ireland. Rentokil Initial renews as Saracens' official washroom & hygiene partner of Stonex Stadium
Central to this strategic partnership, which at its announcement back in August 2020 was believed to be a first in UK sport, remains an ongoing focus on keeping the indoor air clean with VirusKiller air purification technology, which is proven to kill 99.9999% of viruses, including Coronavirus*. VirusKiller units also decontaminate the air, by not only trapping but also by killing airborne viruses, bacteria** and fungi. The Cleanzine Archive Search We keep an extensive archive of news stories and product information that have featured in past issues of The Cleanzine. If you would like to run a search of the The Cleanzine web site using the search tool below please just go ahead by entering in the name of the person, product or company or any other key words that you are looking for. How to contact us at The Cleanzine:
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