The impact of "Going Green" with your cleaning business,
whether it's residential or commercial will be significant and the
overall positive impact it will have on us all as well as the
planet. Cleaning companies (residential or commercial) need to
take a proactive role when it comes to making positive environmental
changes. Look at some statistics below and the sheer volume
that consumers as well as professional/commercial cleaning services
use is enormous. Companies need to look at this as a
trickle-down effect, if you start at the top with large commercial
janitorial/professional cleaning businesses it will trickle-down to
the residential level too.
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17,000: the number of
petrochemicals available for home use, only 30 percent of which have
been tested for exposure to human health and the environment.
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63: the number of synthetic
chemical products found in the average American home, translating to
roughly 10 gallons of harmful chemicals.
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100: the number of times
higher that indoor air pollution levels can be above outdoor air
pollution levels, according to US EPA estimates.
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275: the number of active
ingredients in antimicrobials that the EPA classifies as pesticides
because they are designed to kill microbes.
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5 billion: the number of
pounds of chemicals that the institutional cleaning industry uses
each year.
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23: the average gallons of chemicals (that's 87
liters) that a janitor uses each year, 25 percent of which are
hazardous.
Many commercial cleaning services seem to be adopting a "green"
philosophy and are implementing steps and procedures to use "green"
enviro-friendly products. One commercial cleaner I noted that has
adopted a "green" program is MisterKleen.
Posted
05-21-2009 12:07 PM
by
Virginia SocialSix