Cleanzine: your weekly cleaning and hygiene industry newsletter 14th June 2018 Issue no. 826
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Hospital sees 47% reduction in HAIs after adding pulsed xenon UV disinfection to cleaning protocols
Welsh global biosciences company extends probiotic cleaning range to empower consumers
New Kaivac 2750 comes with patent-pending black box
The Black box contains the essential components powering the 2750. Users can return the Black Box for rapid repair or exchange. This helps minimise downtime and cost. Global contract cleaning market to be dominated by ABM, Anago Cleaning, ISS and ServiceMaster
TVH launches new TotalSource Master catalogue
Georgia-Pacific opens facility to drive supply chain innovation
Latin American women entrepreneurs in Saudi Arabia launch worldwide campaign on Indiegogo
Treatment that transforms sintered stone facades into self-cleaning air purifiers wins award
Contractor fined after admitting awareness of underpayments to subcontractor's workforce
Interclean Amsterdam's Full Circle Exhibition reaffirms its position in the industry
With a combination of old and new segments, Interclean Amsterdam was able to offer a complete overview of the newest technologies and trends in the professional cleaning market. The robot arena, the InnovationLAB and the new Healthcare Cleaning Forum and LAB were particularly popular. Standards increase economic growth and help companies access foreign markets
A vast majority of the respondents, 87%, consider that standardisation plays a key role in their future business plans. Cintas free 'Got to Go' app identifies and rates clean public washrooms across US
Nettuno announces loss of Giancarlo Fratus, CEO
"It is with deep sorrow that Nettuno announces the passing of Giancarlo Fratus, sales director and CEO of the company. Better decisions from better air
New ETW SmartCycle biomethane plant in operation in France
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Welcome to the
Cleanzine - the original Cleaning & Hygiene industry e-news Read by industry professionals in 163 countries worldwide! I was particularly taken by news this week (see more below) of a new project set up with the aim of recycling all plastics in Scotland – including those currently considered to be unrecyclable. The reason I found the news so inspirational was because it was only a few days previously that I’d learned that dumping plastic food packaging and bottles costs Scotland £11m annually.
That - by global standards - this relatively small and sparsely populated country should spend so much money disposing of these plastics, was a shock in itself, but when I considered what might be being wasted on plastics disposal globally I couldn’t help but wonder why this ‘anti-plastics’ campaign has taken so long to gain momentum.
In Scotland alone, over 20 million plastic bottles are left to litter the environment each year and households produce approximately 120,000 tonnes of plastic packaging waste. Over 64,000 tonnes of plastic food packaging and plastic bottles is thrown into household general rubbish bins and sent to landfill every year. This means that on average, each household is binning 27Kg of food and drink plastics that could have been recycled. This plastic could have been worth £5.7 million if recycled, but instead costs Scotland and its local authorities, an estimated £5.3 million to send to landfill.
Just imagine these figures on a global level!
Why are our supermarkets and other retailers still using so much plastic? Why did I have to break into the packaging protecting my new computer mouse this week, using scissors and a knife, cutting myself and almost taking an eye out in the process? Why can I choose individual bananas in the supermarket, but have to buy bell peppers in packets of three (one of each ‘traffic light’ colour, when my family doesn’t really like the green ones)? Why aren’t we charging 50p per single-use plastic bag, rather than the usual 5p or 10p?
Considering that a third of the plastic packaging we use globally escapes collection systems, which means that it ends up clogging our streets, blocking our drains, polluting our environment on land and in the sea, surely we should be doing more to prevent its use? I do hope this project in Scotland is successful and ends up being adopted in other countries, but in the meantime, we should really be finding ways to reduce the unnecessary use of so much plastic, don’t you think? Please get in touch either by emailing me or posting a comment on our Facebook page www.facebook.com/Cleanzine
Yours,
         This Week's News
ISSA appoints Frances Ball new business development manager for UK & Ireland
Based in Nottingham, she will be closely working with the EMEA programme development team in charge of education and certification. Bio Productions managing director to join Green Organisation awards judging panel
She will be one of a team of experts from a diverse range of industries that will review and mark all the entries, which are submitted by companies from all around the world. Judging takes place in August and Awards ceremony is held at The House of Commons in November.
The DVGW is the largest gas and water industry certification body in Europe and a certificate from the organisation is a great achievement as it has very stringent testing procedures and regulations. Greyland Chemicals leading the way in UK with recycled polymer packaging
Not available from any other UK cleaning chemicals manufacturer, both trigger spray bottles and jerry cans used by Greyland Chemicals are now produced using recycled material. New biobased nonwoven cloths support CSR cleaning policies
PLA (Poly Lactic Acid) is an environmentally-friendly material, made from organic resources such as sugars from food crops (corn, sugar beet, sugar cane) and wheat or cellulose. Skanwear champions employee safety and company culture with launch of branded PPE
This latest addition to the Skanwear range adds a further level of convenience for employers keen to ensure employee safety while also championing their own brand. CDC-funded clinical trial proves UV disinfection effective in decreasing C. diff hospital-wide
The study, 'Effectiveness of targeted enhanced terminal room disinfection on hospital-wide acquisition and infection with multidrug-resistant organisms and Clostridium difficile: a secondary analysis of a multicentre cluster randomized controlled trial with crossover design (BETR Disinfection)', which was recently published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases, discusses the prescribed secondary analysis of the BETR-D randomized clinical trial. Beacon of hope for recycling as major funding agreement signed on plastics plant
Project Beacon, at Binn Farm in Perthshire, is lighting the way to a circular world of complete plastics recycling thanks to new technologies and an innovative integrated approach, and is backed by £1.7m from Zero Waste Scotland's Circular Economy Investment Fund (with around another £1.7m leveraged form the private sector) - supported by the Scottish Government and the European Regional Development Fund. Phil Smith takes up new role as group sales director at Templewood /LCC
Hearty congratulations to Phil Smith, who has taken up a new role as group sales director at Templewood Services/LCC Support Services. An experienced sales & marketing director with over 25 years' experience, Phil boasts some impressive cleaning industry credentials...
A Liveryman in the Worshipful Company of Environmental Cleaners, Phil is also a committee member for the British Institute of Cleaning Science's London & Home Counties region, part of the Service Provider Leadership Group of the Living Wage Foundation, a member of the British Institute of Facilities Management and chairman of the cleaning industry networking organisation, the Hill Club. Scrubber dryers streamline carpet cleaning in historic Stowe
The school's founders saved the magnificent 18th century buildings - the former seat of the Dukes of Buckingham and Chandos - from demolition in 1922. Since its opening the following year, Stowe School has expanded - through restoration of the old and construction of new buildings, including art and music schools, a sports hall and indoor swimming pool. Free sustainability guide outlines opportunities for the green transformation of businesses
The London specialist in secure commercial cleaning is making the guide freely available on its website, as the importance of sustainable actions and minimising the amount of materials that end up in landfill or polluting our oceans is becoming more paramount to everyone. CHSA members and guests raised £8,400 for RNIB
The Annual Gala Ball, held this year at The Belfry in the West Midlands, is a wonderful way for members to come together. Alongside the sumptuous dinner, the evening was packed with entertainment including Del Boy wheeling and dealing amongst the guests, close-up magicians, live band (The Choice) and dancing. TCFM contributing to the sterling customer service at Eden Walk, Kingston
The British Land Customer Service awards were first introduced in 2016 after the national roll out of its Customer Service Standards across its complete retail, office and development portfolio covering 25m sq.ft of floor space across the UK. 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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Keep up the good work on recycling
Bin liners incorporated into CHSA's Accreditation Scheme for Plastic Sacks
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