Cleanzine: your weekly cleaning and hygiene industry newsletter 18th May 2023 Issue no. 1065
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Products Handwashing during 'normal times' can reduce burden of respiratory disease
  Nanobubbles reduce surfactants by 50% at California Water Resource Recovery Facility
A new process using injected nanobubbles has reduced surfactants by 50%, along with odour, at a California Water Resource Recovery Facility, while also reducing the need for chemicals. Five urinal malodour issues and how to fix them
UMF|PerfectClean announces first annual Education Hygiene Specialist Excellence Award recipient
MSL Solution Providers launches new SDS subscription service
Delta-Q innovative mid-power charger is now in full-scale production
Why air purification in the workplace is important this allergy season and how to achieve it…
“Conversations around air pollution and the dangers and health risks attributed to it have been commonplace for several years now, with many regulations already in place to lessen its dangers. In comparison, its counterpart of indoor air quality is a largely under reported and under researched topic - until now. Survey finds positive ROI for businesses with clean washrooms
ARCSI announces Canadian regional ambassador selections
The new ambassadors are: * Mark Baker, Motivated House Cleaners, Paradise, Newfoundland Kärcher and TTS agree on strategic partnership
Metsä Tissue receives again the highest Platinum rating in EcoVadis evaluation
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Over the last few decades I’ve spent a fair bit of time at one hospital or another, taking family, friends and neighbours to scheduled appointments or to A&E for emergency treatment, along with visiting those staying in hospital. There’s never much to do other than chat, while gazing around and observing what’s going on – sometimes for hours on end - and thinking, too. Everything about the environment contrasts greatly with vivid memories of a hospital stay as a 6-year old needing a tonsillectomy. Cleaning was carried out by the nursing teams who’d kneel to polish the wooden flooring blocks. I don’t recall much equipment other than mops, buckets and cloths, along with hot, soapy water and a disinfectant and wood polish aroma. I don’t recall any medical equipment either and there was lots of space between the six beds, two of which were unoccupied. My goodness, how things changed since over the years, with the hospital environment now incredibly busy and each ward or room housing a vast array of equipment! Cleaning the floor, in particular, must be like navigating an obstacle course and something that’s impossible to do properly, while all the gadgets, shelving, cabinets and movable trays, along with beds & all their attachments and levers, must be a nightmare to tackle. Privacy curtains around each bed, which used to comprise washable material, are now of the throwaway variety, as are water cups/bottles, much of the workwear and most of the medical devices. I despair at the cost to both the environment and the NHS budget! According to a recent Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine report, which spotlights a new analysis of products used in the five most common NHS minor surgeries, 68% of carbon contributions come from single-use items, such as gowns, patient drapes and instrument table drapes. Their production and disposal - along with processes for decontaminating reusable products, are the worst offenders. The analysts recommend adopting strategies such as avoiding non-sterile gloves and washing hands instead, not opening gauze swab packs unless required and asking suppliers to remove rarely used items from single-use pre-prepared packs. They also argue that many single-use products have reusable alternatives; for example gowns, patient drapes and instrument table drapes, and that there is no evidence that the more environmentally-friendly, reusable surgical textiles, are clinically inferior. They say that eliminating single-use items or switching to reusables where feasible, alongside optimising associated decontamination processes and waste segregation and recycling, could reduce product carbon footprint by one third. Could we be about to witness a timely ‘about face’ I wonder, with more practical purchasing decisions being made? I sincerely hope so! You can read more about what’s involved, further down the page…
Yours,
 This Week's News
Workplaces involved in the dispute include billion-pound global giants Amazon and Mercedes-Benz, as well as the London School of Economics, the Streatham and Clapham school, La Retraite state school, Sage Nursing home, the Department for Education, luxury apartments West End Quays and media powerhouse Ogilvy at the Sea Containers’ building. NHS SBS launches £1.7bn decontamination procurement framework with end-to-end management offer
NHS SBS's procurement framework, Decontamination Services & Solutions, offers end-to-end decontamination solutions. It comes at a time that sees the building and roll-out of surgical hubs being scaled up across the country to increase capacity and ease the pressure on elective surgery.    Furious BCC chairman slams Suella Braverman's speech
Jim Melvin, chair of the British Cleaning Council, has slammed Monday's speech by Home Secretary Suella Braverman, for 'once again ignoring' a £59 billion pound industry, ignoring her own Government's facts that there are over 1m vacancies which currently cannot be filled nationwide and being 'completely divorced from reality'. The cleaning, hygiene & waste industry, which employs 1.47m people has been struggling with severe staff shortages since 2020, when a tightening of immigration rules incorrectly labelled cleaning staff as unskilled and made it more difficult for overseas workers to join the industry.  Cintas announces top three finalists in 2023 Custodian of the Year contest
Rich was honoured in a surprise ceremony by students, teachers, administration and his family – including his second-grade son who attends the school. He was presented with a $10,000 cheque on behalf of Cintas.  Is automated cleaning really viable?
 ARCSI rebranding as ISSA Residential to better serve members
Members that previously joined the association under the ARCSI name will immediately transition their membership to ISSA rather than maintaining a separate division identity. While the name changes, the core values remain the same by continuing to prioritise the needs and concerns of the residential cleaning community, and provide the resources, support, and networking opportunities members expect.  Jangro launches new Cleaning & Hygiene Supplies Catalogue
ISSA Pulire 2023: very successful with 20,058 visitors
The return of overseas visitors contributed to this impressive result, representing 33.45% of the attendance; while the co-location with three trade shows, TuttoFood, Made in Steel and Lamiera, brought in additional value. Trojan to launch AES battery with up to 3x the cycle life of standard AGM at Maastricht Show
Engineers in Canada tap into good vibrations to power Internet of Things
Thought to be first of its kind and the product of a decade of work by researchers at the University of Waterloo and the University of Toronto, the novel generating system is compact, reliable, low-cost and very, very green. Atlas Hospitality supports Kimpton Fitzroy London
The contract commenced this February and covers cleaning of all public areas, including the impressive marble lobby with its Zodiac mosaic, and the restaurants and bars. The appointment was made because of Atlas Hospitality's reputation for high quality services at other luxury hotels. 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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