Cleanzine: your weekly cleaning and hygiene industry newsletter 15th November 2018 Issue no. 846
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Products IICRC seeks volunteers for new BSR/IICRC S530 and BSR/IICRC S590 Standards
Trojan Battery Company acquired by C&D Technologies
Unger floor cleaning system in comparative test
The study, led by Prof. Dr. Ing. Karsten Kluth, involved the ergonomic evaluation of floor cleaning systems to determine what - if any - stresses and strains were caused to cleaning personnel, through the various cleaning systems' different designs. The little accident box - helping teachers survive children's classroom accidents
ISSA heralds 2018's innovators
Wild about washrooms! Nature calls winner of Cintas America's Best Restroom contest
Industrial vacuum cleaner market likely to be worth $681.3 million by 2023
'Industrial Vacuum Cleaner Market by Type (Dry and Wet & Dry), Power Source (Electric & Pneumatic), Industry (Food & Beverages, Pharmaceuticals, Manufacturing, Metalworking, and Building & Construction), and Region - Global Forecast to 2023'. |
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Cleanzine - the original Cleaning & Hygiene industry e-news Read by industry professionals in 163 countries worldwide! They say you can't have too much of a good thing, so I'm hoping that the arrival of last week's Cleanzine in your inbox this morning (thanks to a computer glitch) wasn't 'too much of an issue' for you! Ocean cleanup company, 4ocean, has unveiled its latest recovery vessel, a 135-foot ship that will join the fleet in gathering plastic and other debris accumulating in estuaries and coastlines globally, as well as responding to emergencies. It contains an excavator barge, marsh excavator, fast landing craft and a new design of collection booms that can be laid out in petal fashion to increase coverage while having access to the beach too. The marsh excavator comprises a long reach excavator and set of swamp tracks to work on soft soil to remove and separate plastics from mud. The logistics of trying to manoeuvre large equipment complicates cleanup, so the fleet includes small 'panga' vessels which hold four to five 'supersacks' carrying 1,500 pounds of plastic. The larger Ocean Plastic Recover Vessel can bring in 310,000 pounds in one trip alone. "Our mission with the new vessel is to attack shoreline plastic simultaneously while booms are collecting plastic debris," said 4ocean co-founders Alex Schulze and Andrew Cooper. "We will also be handling reclamation projects in large areas to clean up oceans and river deltas. Our new Bobcat excavator uses a custom claw and hook on the front with teeth to leave behind dirt and only grab plastic. Our job is to collect as much plastic as possible, clean up the areas, install booms and employ locals to service and maintain the booms long-term." Since launching in January 2017, 4ocean has pulled over two million pounds of plastic and other debris from our ocean and coastlines. Its efforts are completely funded through the sale of recycled bracelets and sustainability products, where every item purchased funds the removal of at least one pound of rubbish. By creating jobs, utilising the latest technology and raising awareness about the impact of ocean rubbish, the company's building the first economy for ocean plastic and creating a cleaner, more sustainable future for us. Christmas is coming and the bracelets, which come in several colours (www.4ocean.com ), will make a great 'stocking filler'. And as well as helping support this great initiative, they will serve as a reminder to us all, that we need to create less rubbish and dispose of our waste sensibly. 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
Soapbox: Fly tipping problems... a potential solution?
"Making the public and companies aware that they have a legal duty of care to ensure their rubbish/rubble/waste material is disposed of by a licensed operator who's issued a waste transfer certificate, should be undertaken by local authorities and groups like Keep Britain Tidy. Very heavy fines can be handed down by the Courts for those caught, who don't comply. Of course, the cowboy rubbish collectors and fly tippers should be fined too, but they will hopefully reduce in numbers if rubbish owners act legally and responsibly. CIRI announces Science Advisory Council
Recycle Week 2018: 'the best ever'
The week saw the launch of Recycle Now's Do/Does campaign which was delivered through a huge social media and 'out-of-home' advertising campaign on over 350 JC Decaux sites around England and Northern Ireland. The campaign featured a national tour of a big 'WE DO' sign, showing that 'We Do' recycle. This ties in with Recycle Now's new normative messaging approach to change recycling behaviours.
The equipment enables cleaners to move quickly along aisles and around seats, allowing them to collect debris such as popcorn and sweet wrappers up to 15mm in size, with ease. Clarity-The Soap Co wins in two categories at The Planet Mark Awards
At a glittering ceremony, with keynote speaker Sir Tim Smit KBE = co-founder of the Eden Project - encouraging the audience to redouble efforts to inspire others to reduce their carbon footprint and develop more sustainable businesses, Clarity-The Soap Co was acknowledged as a social enterprise that is setting best practice in its sector and beyond for reducing its carbon footprint via a series of green initiatives. Intelligent washroom solutions for optimal hygiene
The automatic range includes hand washing and sanitising dispensers, fully programmable air fresheners and feminine hygiene bins. Based on infra-red proximity technology and hand activated sensors, the products provide optimal hygienic solutions for washroom users as well as those whose job it is to clean the washrooms and replenish the stocks of disposables. Principle retains REM portfolio properties in five-year deal
The new five-year deal will see Principle, which began working with REM in 2012, involved in some of the most complex vertical cleaning required in London today. Hepaco acquires Trans Environmental
Hepaco is majority-owned by San Francisco-based private equity firm Gryphon Investors, which purchased the Company in August 2016. Minster Cleaning Services roll out TemplaCMS to 26 franchises
Although the branches benefit from centralised support in areas such as training and marketing, the company recently undertook a major project to provide them with a standardised, software-based contract management platform that will relieve them of the administrative and operational pressures that cleaning brings. Interserve Facilities Management fined for safety failings Interserve Facilities Management has been fined after multiple safety failings at a laboratory site for the Animal Health & Veterinary Laboratories Agency in Weybridge. Hove Crown Court heard how, in September 2014, mains power was lost at the site which includes high containment laboratory facilities required to safely handle high hazard pathogens that are a serious risk to human health and the environment. Gritting crews ready for Winter
The council grits approximately 226 miles of road, with routes graded by importance. These routes consist of the priority routes, which make up of the main road network, such as the A13 and bus routes, and take about three hours to grit. If the weather is more severe, secondary routes are also treated and take another two hours. 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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We have mail: business rates relief for public toilets... and an endorsement!
Having been involved, as Director of BTA and owner of Loo of the Year Awards, giving evidence to a Parliamentary Select Committee in 2008 demanding changes that would require the Government to make a legal requirement on local authorities to provide adequate public toilets, I welcome the budget changes. Soapbox: A good week for toilet talk
"It has been a good week for toilet talk. First we had the chancellor making numerous toilet jokes as he announced in the budget that owners will no longer pay business rates on public toilets. Then Microsoft founder Bill Gates unveils a futuristic toilet that doesn't need water by making a presentation with a jar of human faeces on show beside him. Waste management company fined £650,000 plus costs after worker killed while cleaning A waste management company has been fined after a worker was fatally injured while cleaning a large ballistic separator machine. Aylesbury Crown Court heard how, in August 2016, a Viridor Waste Management employee climbed into the top level of the ballistic separator - a machine that sifts through and separates recyclable materials - to clean it, before it was suitably isolated from the power supply. Campaign tells public not to 'toss' their litter
It supports the message used by charity Keep Britain Tidy in their UK-wide initiative to tackle the problem of roadside litter. Looking lively! London Cleaning Show 2019 steps up a gear with loads that's new
A new Resource Management Show is set to run alongside main exhibition and conference, which will once again feature suppliers, manufacturers, training organisations and trade organisations that are all involved in the cleaning, facilities management and waste management sectors. Christeyns acquires Clover Chemicals
Cromwell Polythene shows it 'Leeds by Example'
Monthind Clean wins contract for Norfolk's New Quadram Institute
Bio-Productions embraces 'Wear It Pink' Day
Typical of this special company culture is the support of the entire workforce for 'Wear it Pink' Day. |
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