Cleanzine: your weekly cleaning and hygiene industry newsletter 6th August 2020 Issue no. 930
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Cleanzine - the original Cleaning & Hygiene industry e-news Read by industry professionals in 163 countriesworldwide Today I've gained an insight into the issues our refuse collectors face when emptying household bins and it's made me realise that my support of fortnightly collections has been misguided. I stayed overnight at my daughter's. She lives in a mews-style development with parking bays in the middle. Bin lorries can't be driven in so collectors have to drag bins quite a way along narrow pathways for emptying. Thanks to shrubbery, it's difficult to see anything that's lower than waist-height and this morning bins weren't collected along the back where my daughter lives. With fortnightly collections and her bin full of cat litter from an unexpected kindle of kittens, it couldn't go another two weeks, so I grabbed it and wheeled it in search of the bin lorry. What a job! Just tipping the thing was tough enough but to have to manoeuvre it along pathways - some of which were blocked by badly parked cars - was really difficult. It was heavy, too. In checking neighbours' bins to see if they'd been emptied, I encountered some stuffed so full that the lids wouldn't shut; one had maggots not only inside but crawling around the rim. Today's lesson has made me rethink the whole idea of collection schedules... With fortnightly collections, bins left out for emptying are often overflowing, potentially smelly, may have maggots and are likely to be heavy. Likewise recycling bins and boxes. These will be packed to the brim with food cartons and drinks cans that may not have been washed properly. Although these are less likely to have maggots, they will attract flies - as well as wasps in Summer. The extra difficulties encountered by those making fortnightly collections means the round takes a lot longer, the job is more unpleasant and there will be health and hygiene issues - and fly-tipping - when bins are deliberately (and quite rightly, in my opinion) not collected because they're overflowing or too heavy. I can picture the detrimental effect this will have on the operations that follow, such as those carried out at civic amenity tips and recycling centres. Weekly collections eliminate these problems, but require more fuel and man-hours. I'm sure councils will have carried out analyses of the costs and am interested to learn why some have continued - or reverted to - weekly collections while others are sticking to fortnightly, and others, I believe, still collect only once every three weeks. Does the local environment, politics or staffing come into it, I wonder?
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PUBLIC TOILET FORUM: We have mail
I was interested to read the article in Cleanzine on a proposed Toilet Hygiene Rating Scheme, and to follow the subsequent correspondence on the matter. The European Tissue Symposium (ETS) sees this as an interesting initiative. A certified scheme, with a certificate or badge that is recognised by owners and operators as well as the general public, could offer important guidance as to the hygiene levels required to maintain optimal health & safety - and, of course, it is particularly timely in these times of pandemic. Marc Wolpers is new vice president sales hygiene at W+D/BICMA
Bed bugs secure $1.18m investment for UK AI firm
This investment reflects Spotta's huge potential in global markets in hospitality, farming, forestry and other sectors to solve the £320 bn ($400 bn) problem of insect pests while dramatically reducing pesticide use. Cleanology up for national award recognising service industry entrepreneurs
Judges, including Cath Kidston and Go Compare founder Hayley Parsons, chose Cleanology from others in the London and East of England region. Winners of CHSA's 2020 Undergraduate Bursary announced
Sidney, whose mother works for Comax UK Healthline, is motivated and ambitious. She volunteered at a care home whilst taking her A' levels, valuing the opportunity to engage with a range of different people. Going to King's College London to study Philosophy, she intends to use the bursary to fund extracurricular learning and development opportunities. Splashback, urinals, and the Covid connection
The setting in which this is most likely to happen is around urinals. What a Fantastic idea! Prochem distributor provides NHS workers with free cleaning
"We all owe an enormous debt to the selfless NHS workers who are saving lives as they fight daily against Covid-19," says Fantastic Services CEO and co-founder Anton Skarlatov (pictured left). Partnership produces premium performance rechargeable antimicrobial micrillon micro-denier fibres
Micrillon is a rechargeable, broad spectrum, antimicrobial polymer additive that can be incorporated into fibres, as well as films, injection moulded and extruded plastics, and charged with chlorine molecules. Chris James steps down from WAMITAB CEO role
Since 2017, WAMITAB has been part of the CIWM Group, whose chief executive Sarah Poulter will be taking forward the integration plan for the two organisations in consultation with both trustee boards. 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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