Cleanzine: your weekly cleaning and hygiene industry newsletter 9th February 2023 Issue no. 1051
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Products Visitor Registrations are open for ISSA Pulire 2023  Registration is open for ISSA Pulire 2023, the international trade fair dedicated to the professional cleaning and sanitation sector, which is taking place at Fiera Milano, Italy, from 9th to 11th May. Aimed at cleaning professionals, manufacturers, distributors, service and facilities management companies, users and end customers, the event will showcase the best in professional cleaning, disinfestation, laundry, integrated services and maintenance.
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WFBSC announces Global Executive Summit roster of speakers
Greenteck Global to increase European production as part of ongoing sustainability advances
Sustainability tops most important customer demands for cleaning businesses in 2023
ASFEL continues to build on export growth
Vectair welcomes Claire Reid as head of marketing innovation & portfolio management
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My mother used to enjoy me watching TV with her but because of her dementia, I needed to be mindful of programme choice. The BBC’s ‘The Repair Shop’ was always a good one and she’d often sit smiling at the wonders worked with ordinary people’s broken treasures by the various repair experts. I don’t know if it was the programme that inspired them or whether the BBC uncovered a growing trend, but ‘repair cafés’ are popping up all over, and – as someone who’s long been worried about the ‘civilised’ world’s ease of condemning items to landfill that could with a bit of effort and imagination either be repaired or repurposed at a much lower cost than replacement – I love the idea.
My friend Martin's involved in setting one up in Portsmouth and his Facebook post asking for crowdfunding (https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/portsmouth) showed me that other friends are already using similar facilities in their own areas. One, whose son’s electric blanket failed, took it to her local ‘repair café: “Every third Saturday, you can take anything in, and lovely people volunteer their time to fix things,” she wrote. “You’ve got to get there early as there are long queues.” So clearly, there’s a demand for the services these places offer then… In this case, the repair took just a few minutes. A small donation was made and some cake bought from the café part. “Hooray for volunteers who love fixing. And those who run it. It’s superb!” said my friend. “They also sell tasty cakes. I convince myself that buying cakes is a way of donating. And knowing it was a broken thermal resistor in our case - and that it was easy and inexpensive to sort - will encourage others with a similar problem to seek a repair rather than send to landfill.”
Like most of my friends, I hate the throwaway society we've become and feel this is partly down to us not having been taught how things work & how to repair them if they fail, plus a lack of affordable repair options. Repair cafés are the perfect answer. I wonder whether this is just a British thing (please let me know if you’re reading this in one of the 160-ish non-British countries in which Cleanzine is received and there are repair cafés nearby). I also wonder whether there’s any mileage in teaching customers – perhaps by allowing them to watch the repair of their own items – how to mend things for themselves, or whether there’s perhaps an option for those who want to learn to repair, to spend entire days in the facility observing how things are done? Small steps…
Yours,
 This Week's News
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' 'Product of the Year ISSA Pulire 2023' Award, now in its third edition, which will culminate with the awarding of the winner on 9th May Xenex Makes De Novo Petition to FDA re. LightStrike UV room disinfection technology
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Satino by WEPA has been heavily investing in sustainability research since 2013 as it seeks to minimise its use of virgin fibres. Its newfound production method involves recycling corrugated cardboard - a widely untapped resource - into soft, hygienic paper.
Training & education has always been a passion for Mike, who feels that delivering knowledge is very rewarding and key to the success of the product in use. So as Mike had spent the last 23 of his 37 years in the industry working with steam cleaning equipment, (his last 10 as sales director for Matrix  New whitepaper from REACT explores future of commercial cleaning technology
A biofilm is an immobile community of microorganisms that stick to each other and to surfaces. They can form almost anywhere, and grow as the microorganisms multiply and attach to other communities. UK Government moves ahead with plans to crack down on illegal waste
The current rules in England and Wales allow certain low-risk, small-scale waste activities to be carried out under a registration scheme, exempt from the need to hold an environmental permit, providing a light-touch but valuable form of regulation. 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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