Cleanzine: your weekly cleaning and hygiene industry newsletter 4th January 2018 Issue no. 803
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 International News
Products Interclean Amsterdam expands again to add 'On-Premise-Laundry' section
Diversey to acquire Twister, Swedish manufacturer of diamond cleaning pads
Singaporean cleaning & waste management sectors to be transformed
NSS launches ISSA Innovation Award winning eForce scrubber with joystick control
Greyland's colourful new Premier Range cleans to the Maximum!
IICRC Calls for S400 non-voting section committee volunteers
Easterseals' Gala honours Kaivac as Outstanding Community Partner
New eco and bee-friendly ethical luxury collection from The Soap Co.
New low-cost solution for deep cleaning escalators
Xeros announces new partner in United Arab Emirates
TAS Environmental Services makes Delmar Disposal second acquisition in 2017
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Following broadcast of our last Cleanzine, which featured a Christmas tree made from used green plastic bottles, we started receiving reports that China's decision to stop importing plastic waste is already causing a build up at our recycling plants. In 2016, China processed almost two thirds of the UK's total waste and more than seven million tonnes of plastic waste in total - half of the world's recycled plastics. Its decision - which also includes mixed paper - will have a huge impact on our environment, unless we can massively increase the capacity of our local recycling industries. Also over our break, Seas at Risk - an umbrella organisation of European environmental NGOs which promotes marine protection - and Eunomia, published a report on the scale of single-use plastic consumption in Europe. 'Single-use Plastics and the Marine Environment' represents the first attempt to create a picture of single-use plastic consumption in Europe based on consumption estimates for key items of waste: bottles, coffee cups and lids, drinking straws, takeaway packaging and cigarette butts. Its estimates indicate, for example, that the annual consumption of drinks bottles across the EU is around 46 billion. The report also presents case studies of successful litter prevention initiatives and makes recommendations for how legislation can drive reductions in plastic consumption and so reduce marine plastic pollution and the need for landfill facilities. The recommendations include introducing reduction targets for a range of single-use plastic items (similar to those already in place for plastic bags), greater producer responsibility to cover both litter prevention and clean up, measures to mandate reusables at public events, and that data on the quantities of single-use plastic items on the market be made available to better facilitate reduction efforts. Eunomia was commissioned to support Seas at Risk in its efforts in petitioning European legislators to introduce ambitious policies that would help protect the marine environment. As the report notes, if Europe were to drastically reduce its consumption of single-use plastic items - which are the most likely to be littered - then it would effectively eliminate a major source of marine pollution in all of its seas. And, in view of China's decision, it would also reduce what will soon become a recycling nightmare unless an alternative to shipping our waste half-way across the world can be adopted very quickly... it beggars belief that we were actually doing that in the first place... Happy New Year to you! Please get in touch either by emailing me or posting a comment on our Facebook page www.facebook.com/Cleanzine
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        This Week's News
Sustainable Cleaning Products Summit highlights key industry concerns
Discussions over the two-day executive summit covered the role of green certification schemes, bio-based surfactants, sustainability & marketing developments, and green formulations. Foul smells, rats and urban foxes: research reveals UK's worst cities for problem rubbish
British Cleaning Council reveals more details of Manchester Cleaning Show
Over the two-day event - being hosted at Event City in Manchester on April 11th and 12th 2018 - the BCC is already anticipating more visitors than the 2,300 which attended the first Manchester Cleaning Show in 2016. Dirty toilets put most Brits off returning to restaurants A YouGov online survey of 2,012 British adults by Cannon Hygiene, highlights the huge importance people put on the cleanliness and upkeep of washrooms. It shows how dirty washrooms not only put Brits off returning to restaurants, but also encourages them to warn others about the unhygienic conditions. For example: Big expansion for UK's largest independent manufacturer of cleaning and hygiene products
The firm, which employs 190 people at its headquarters in Buxton, Derbyshire, is also building new offices and a purpose-built canteen for staff. RPC bpi recycled products wins environmental award
Launched in 1994, The Green Organisation's Green Apple Award is an annual international competition that sets out to recognise, reward and promote environmental best practice. Finalists appear in The Green Apple Directory which features the best practices of award winners and is available to companies across the world. Prochem Europe announces 2018 training course dates
Clear and practical, each course is held at the company's national training academy in Chessington, Surrey, and includes face-to-face instruction and step-by-step demonstrations by dedicated Prochem trainers, enabling attendees to gain the knowledge and confidence to clean to the highest professional standards. A comprehensive reference manual is also provided with each course, as is a certificate. ISS extends partnership with Hewlett Packard Enterprise
The extended contract has the same scope as the existing contract. ISS will continue the full FM delivery to HPE's office and manufacturing facilities. New LB4 Superleggera: the backpack vacuum cleaner which offers so much more...
Manufacturer Lindhaus tells us: "No other vacuum cleaner includes the backpack (standard), the canister, the carpet cleaner and blower (optional) functions." CHSA raises a record breaking £14,000 for RNIB
RNIB offers practical and emotional support to people who are losing their sight or are blind or partially sighted, helping them and their families face the future with confidence. The money raised by the CHSA will be used for the production of unabridged audiobooks to add to the charity's Talking Books library. 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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Former cleaners take on boardroom roles
Nicola Barbour and Michelle Lamb will share responsibility for over 1400 staff across seven offices. They will each handle a £6m per annum portfolio. Keep bars and cellars clean and hygienic over festive season and beyond
Incentive FM consultancy secures major project with National Lottery operator Camelot
Incentive has appointed a new dedicated head of facilities management for Camelot to oversee the company's day-to-day FM operations and work with other members of the Incentive executive team on this assignment. Boat cleaning operation damages cars parked nearby
Defence contractor Babcock accidentally splattered around 500 parked cars with a metallic substance while cleaning a boat at Scotland's Rosyth dockyard, and it is estimated that it will cost up to £150k to repair them... Technology and sustainability key drivers of the UK contract cleaning market
It warns that the current uncertainty means that this growth is unlikely to be sustained over the next few years, but says that looking forward, demand is likely to be relatively buoyant in the transport sector, while the retail, commercial offices and the government sectors are likely to provide fewer opportunities, at least in the short term. HSE annual occupational health & safety statistics analysed
These are among the conclusions, relating to occupational ill-health, of annual health & safety statistics recently published by the Health & Safety Executive. Fulham Road renews with ISS UK
After a competitive procurement process, the Fulham Road Collaborative (FRC) has awarded a new five-year contract, worth more than £100m (842m DKK) over the contract term, to its existing provider, ISS Facility Services - Healthcare. Production and jobs restored at Gelpack
Under the leadership of managing director Geoff Davis and other key former members of the UK management team, some 50 jobs have already been reinstated, with a further 20 positions planned by mid-2018. Six production lines have been recommissioned to cope with initial orders, with another six lines scheduled for a January start. |
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