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Recycling Heroes and Young Green Ambassadors Awards mark Global Recycling Day 2024

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The Global Recycling Foundation announced the 10 winners of its Recycling Heroes 2024 Awards along with five special awards for Young Green Ambassadors, to mark the seventh Global Recycling Day on 18th March.
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Cleaning up environmental contaminants with quantum dot technology

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The 2023 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was focused on quantum dots - objects so tiny, they're controlled by the strange and complex rules of quantum physics.
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Tennant announces full spec and capabilities of its first purpose-built robotic scrubber

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Powered by Brain Corp's next generation BrainOS Robotics Platform, this cutting-edge offering in floor care brings further innovation to the robotics-powered cleaning industry.
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Taski opens US manufacturing plant for its Swiss-designed floorcare machines

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Taski is opening a US manufacturing plant for its Swiss-designed floorcare machines, just one year after Taski's acquisition of NSS Enterprises and establishment of its new North American hub in Toledo, Ohio.
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Recruitment dilemma - balancing growth with difficulties finding the right talent

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Samsic UK's HR director Andrew Safo-Poku Jnr and finance director Baldip Brreach discuss the recruitment and retention issues that are being felt throughout the facilities management industry, and look at ways in which talented employees cannot only be found, but kept.
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No trace but cleanliness: The benefits of dry ice blasting for every industry and the role of compressed air

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By Alex Persyn, director of product management Rotair Portable Compressors
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Building engineers 'will save more lives than doctors'

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A leading respiratory illness expert has claimed that facilities management and building services engineering will have a greater influence on worldwide human health & wellbeing than the medical and social care professions.
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Global Recycling Day: How could recycling benefit your business?

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In celebration of Global Recycling Day on 18th March, experts at essentials service provider, Direct365, have shared a guide on the benefits of recycling for your business, and advice on how to achieve green goals.
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Waste management & recycling services specialist rebrands

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Greater Manchester-based waste management & recycling services specialist Roydon Recycling has begun operating five new sites in the Netherlands and plans to work in Germany, France and Belgium.
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Amsterdam Innovation Awards 2024: The nominations are…

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One of the most hotly contested competitions in the industry - the Amsterdam Innovation Awards, a highlight of the Interclean Amsterdam trade show - has once again attracted an extremely high calibre of entries.
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High-level event held to advance WASH standards in healthcare facilities

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The Ministry of Health & Social Protection of Population of the Republic of Tajikistan reaffirmed its ongoing dedication to global health and sustainable development by convening an important high-level event centred on advancing water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) standards in healthcare facilities (HCFs).
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WoolSafe-approved shampoo for rugs cuts cleaning costs

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Rug cleaning specialists have welcomed the availability of a UK-manufactured high foaming carpet shampoo after approaches to the WoolSafe Organisation.
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Chicopee launches first 100% recycled, disposable microfibre wipe

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Sustainable and effective cleaning has never been easier thanks to the new rMicrofibre from Chicopee, which the company believes is the first and only 100% microfibre and 100% recycled disposable wipe which achieves 99.97% bacteria removal using just water.
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Truvox partners with i-Team to bring imop Lite and i-scrub 21B to UK

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Southampton-based Truvox International has signed an agreement with Netherlands-based i-Team Professional to bring two of its products to the UK cleaning and facilities management market under the Truvox brand. Joining the existing Truvox line-up are imop Lite and the i-scrub 21B cordless power scrubber.
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Yesterday, the Environment Agency released its annual sewage data, which revealed that there were 464,056 sewage spills from storm overflows in England last year - 162,965 more than the year before. Wales reported 108,860, while Scotland - with only 4% of its overflows actually monitored - reported 15,289, (so just imagine the real number!). To put that into perspective, water companies in England spent 3,606,170 hours last year, discharging sewage into our waterways. Disgraceful, don’t you think? All those incidences of raw sewage making its way into our waterways, beaches, seas and subsequently further afield…

While the true picture’s pretty hard to fathom, (with figures skewed since the Event Duration Monitors that measure frequency and duration of spills - fitted as part of an ongoing program, are, only now, fitted to all England’s overflows) it’s still not good enough. Nor are the Agency’s promises to increase water company inspections fourfold, “to uncover any non-compliance with environmental permits and take enforcement action when illegal discharges from storm overflows are identified”. It’s too late by then... The damage has been done! Then there’s its: “£180m in fast-tracked water company investment over the next 12 months, expected to prevent more than 8,000 sewage spills polluting English waterways”. Who’s paying for the EVDs, the extra inspections (10,000 each year by 2025!) and subsequent enforcement action? Where’s the £180m coming from? I’ll wager it’s not the water companies themselves, but the taxpayers and water companies’ customers, which means that some are contributing twice! It’s all very well for the Environment Agency to boast that, “No other country has the level of monitoring we do, with 100% of storm overflows in England now fitted with a monitor”. It’s preventing the spillages from happening in the first place that’s important, not catching companies for their transgressions after the event. We’re monitoring something that shouldn’t be happening.

The Government’s bringing in a ban later this year on water company executive board members and chief executives receiving bonuses if the companies for which they’re responsible have committed, “serious criminal breaches”. It’s a good move, but why not go further than that? We shouldn’t be contaminating our environment in the first place, should we? How about reducing the level at which a ‘criminal breach’ takes place? How about a cap on bonuses earned by water company bosses whether they perform well or not, and shareholder pay-outs drastically reduced until the industry’s got its house in order? All this extra effort and expenditure on the part of the authorities shouldn’t be necessary. Water companies ploughing their profits into improving their infrastructure rather than rewarding themselves and their shareholders for a job not very well done, isn’t the way to go, is it?

 

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This Week's News

RAS welcomes its new executive director

* RAS-executive-director.jpgSandeep Khanna, the incoming executive director of the Restroom Association Singapore, boasts some great credentials… For example he was a Board Member at the World Toilet Organisation for more than three years where he helped create the branding and marketing strategy and also connected the WTO with potential corporate sponsors.

Known for focussing on creating value, fostering rich connections and delivering impact, Sandeep brings to the role more than three decades of rich cross-functional and cross-cultural experience across Asia. He has built brands, businesses and leaders across companies such BBDO, Nokia, LG, Facebook and Grab – and, having lived in India, Vietnam, the Philippines and Singapore, he boasts a unique pan-Asian perspective that positions him as a trusted lead
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Manchester Cleaning Show: biggest and best-attended yet!

* Manchester-Cleaning-Show-delivered.jpgThe Manchester Cleaning Show celebrated its biggest and best-attended event last week, with a record-breaking 85 exhibitors and 2,558 attendees participating in the two-day event. They came from all over the world, including North America, South Africa, China, UAE and Australia.

Over 40 expert speakers from organisations such as the British Cleaning Council, Birkin, Reckitt and Killis, shared their insights in a range of talks across the two days, with ESG, sustainability and technology being the hot-button topics of the event.
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Legislation lethargy looms as volume and intensity of sustainability reporting increases

* Legislation-lethargy.jpgAn interesting new survey from Mitie has found that UK organisations are feeling overwhelmed by the strain of sustainability reporting, with legislation lethargy on the rise as they tackle the labyrinth of new and existing reporting legislation.

This comes alongside an increase in the number of ESG reporting mandates and the expectation of total transparency around net zero targets from policymakers, investors and customers in the UK and Europe.
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European cleaning industry presents its Manifesto for next EU institutional cycle

* EFCI-European-cleaning-industry.jpgEFCI (European Cleaning & Facility Services Industry), the European Federation representing the cleaning and facilities management industry, recently held an event to present its Manifesto ahead of the European elections of next June.

More than 50 guests - including policymakers, representatives of the business community and social partner organisations, gathered in Brussels to participate in an event to mark the presentation of the Manifesto, which illustrates the points that the industry requires from policymakers to deliver upon in the next EU legislature.
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Sort border to prevent supply chain breakdown

* Sort-border-supply-chain.jpgEaster weekend marks the traditional start of the UK's exodus to Continental Europe, with coachloads of schoolchildren and carloads of families taking skiing holidays and Spring breaks.

But while for many, short traffic queues are anticipated as part of the travel experience, business group Logistics UK is warning that travel delays - and the knock on-effect these could have on imports from Europe in future - could be significant, unless the UK Government takes steps to clarify its post-Brexit border arrangements with the EU.
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Packed programme put in place for Interclean Amsterdam 2024

* Interclean-programme-2024.jpgThe official programme for Interclean Amsterdam 2024 is now available online and this year's edition promises to be the biggest and most inspiring ever, offering a treasure trove of opportunities to learn, network, and propel your business forward.

You will be able to gain invaluable insights from renowned speakers who will inspire you to push boundaries and achieve remarkable results, and you’ll dive deep into the latest trends shaping the professional cleaning industry, thanks to presentations delivered by the top minds in the field.
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Veolia starts UK's first safe treatment for nitrous oxide canisters

* Veolia3.jpgVeolia has started the first UK process lines for the safe treatment of nitrous oxide canisters. The innovative new systems are designed to treat and recycle the used canisters, and stop the greenhouse gas impact caused through discharge of the gas which has nearly 300 times the warming power of carbon dioxide.

This technological first has been developed at the company's Empire facility in Birmingham, and the new process can capture the gas from N2O canisters and separate the nitrogen and oxygen components to enable the gases to be safely vented in proportion to relative volumes already in the atmosphere. The empty canisters are then recycled.
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Cleanology CEO elected co-chair of Living Wage leadership group

* Cleanology-CEO.jpgDominic Ponniah, CEO and co-founder of award-winning commercial cleaning firm Cleanology, has been elected co-chair of the Living Wage Foundation's Recognised Service Provider Leadership Group.

"As a long-term supporter of the Real Living Wage, I am absolutely thrilled to have been elected as co-chair,” remarks Dominic. “This dedicated group of business leaders are champions of fair pay and understand well the commercial benefits for organisations who pay the Real Living Wage.
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More than a Safe pair of hands...

* PROCHEM-Safe-hands.jpgA team from SafeGroup Services, one of the UK's leading providers of specialist cleaning services, attended Prochem's Training Academy in Surrey to enhance the team members’ skills on a one-day hard-floor cleaning and maintenance session designed specifically to meet the members’ needs.

Proficient with bio-hazard cleaning, fire and flood cleans, waste removal and pest control, managing director Adam Wilkinson was now investing in his team's knowledge of all types of hard flooring.
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Tork aims to make washroom hygiene more inclusive

* Tork-washroom-hygiene.jpgEssity brand Tork, has today launched its commitment to advancing hygiene inclusivity in public washrooms in the US by ensuring that everyone can pursue proper hygiene in these settings.

To bring awareness to one aspect of the issue, the brand is spotlighting stories of Americans who face barriers to washing their hands in public washrooms, showing how this negatively impacts the hygiene and wellbeing of individuals.
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Recent UK News

Secure supply chains with closer Government/industry ties

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A senior UK Government Minister has told leaders of the logistics sector that close Government collaboration with businesses, academia and trade organisations is the only way to ensure resilient UK supply chains.
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Greyland’s gaining ground: 25 years’ success and a committed sustainability champion to boot!

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When Cleanzine launched 22 years ago, an early advertiser was Greyland - a small, northern England-based family business supplying a range of industrial and institutional cleaning chemicals which, having started officially trading in February 1999, was itself in its infancy.
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Mitie secures spot on Crown Commercial Service's Healthcare Soft FM Services Framework

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Mitie has been awarded a place on the Crown Commercial Service's (CCS) Healthcare Soft Facilities Management Framework agreement for three years with an option to extend for a further year.
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EcoTech celebrates prestigious accreditation

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Coventry-based cleaning product manufacturer EcoTech (Europe) is celebrating recognition by one of the UK's foremost cleaning sector trade organisations. EcoTech is now a fully accredited member of the Cleaning & Hygiene Suppliers Association, the UK's largest organisation representing manufacturers and distributors supplying cleaning & hygiene products.
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Mitie celebrates winners at inaugural Apprenticeship Awards

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Mitie celebrated National Apprenticeship Week with its inaugural Apprenticeship Awards ceremony, which recognised the outstanding efforts of Mitie apprentices and their champions. Winners were selected across six categories with each awarded a £100 voucher in recognition of their exceptional work. Mitie received over 180 award nominations from across the business.
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Cleaning, hygiene & waste industry now in post-pandemic recovery, says newly-published research

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New research published by the British Cleaning Council shows how the cleaning, hygiene & waste sector is 'in recovery' after the challenges of the pandemic.
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Mitie launches podcast that dives under the surface of Facilities Transformation

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Mitie is offering a behind the scenes look at the workplaces and facilities of some of Britain's biggest brands with the launch of its new podcast series, 'The Science of Service Podcast: Facilities Transformation'.
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It's a '10' from Wellington College for Sodexo!

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Independents by Sodexo has retained its contract with Wellington College in Berkshire for a further 10 years with the new contract valued in the region of £80 million for the contract duration.
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Paul Thrupp to step down from FWC management committee after 16 years

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Executive Member Paul Thrupp will step down from the Federation of Window Cleaners management committee in April, following 16 years of dedicated service.
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Futures Supplies celebrates 29 years of success

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As it celebrates its 29th year in business, Futures Supplies, a leading independent distributor of washroom, cleaning, janitorial and associated products, reflects on its remarkable journey marked by growth, innovation, and unwavering commitment to excellence...
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Company fined after worker injured by 300kg batteries

A recycling company in West Yorkshire has been fined £120,000 after batteries weighing at least 300Kg fell onto an employee and severely injured him.
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SOAPBOX: A rubbish-free future for London: challenges and solutions

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By Josh Clarke, managing director at Clear It Waste

“As a born-and-bred Londoner, I've witnessed first-hand the changes this vibrant city has undertaken —the rise of skyscrapers, the increasing number of tourists and the exciting new developments - and yes, the ever-present challenge of waste management.
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Events & Exhibitions

ISSA Show North America
18-21st November 2024
Las Vegas
USA

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Interclean China 2024
11-13th December 2024
Shanghai
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London Cleaning Show
18-20th March 2025
ExCel London
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ISSA Pulire 2025
27-29th May 2025
Rho Fiera Milano
Italy

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