Cleaning is essential for every professional environment and high-level cleaning is considered a cornerstone of a functioning and productive commercial company. Cleaning also should guarantee a healthy workplace and improvement in morale while ensuring the business makes great first impressions every time. However, some chemical-based cleaning methods can hamper that. There are many tools, chemicals, and products available for commercial cleaning these days, however, there has been a push for some time towards eco-friendly cleaning techniques and green products. These deliver the same level of cleanliness expected, without harming the environment or anyone who uses the building and space. These newer techniques and products help companies adhere to their commitment to Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) along with ensuring they’re doing their bit for the planet; green cleaning really is a win all around. To help you discover if this is an option for your company, more information below outlines green cleaning and the difference it can make to your business and work environment.
What is Green Cleaning?
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Eco-friendly or green cleaning uses cleaning methods and products designed to preserve the health and safety of any commercial or home environment after cleaning. The process covers all of the areas of any other cleaning system but uses green substances, equipment and methods instead of more environmentally harmful ones that may impact building users and the wider environment. There is also a heavy focus on reducing water usage within the green cleaning process to help preserve this vital resource and keep the associated water bills down. It will also help you avoid toxic fumes that can linger in the building and any allergy-causing substances that may affect building users. Plus there is the added bonus is that green cleaning ensures all surfaces are safe to touch after a cleaning service rather than harsh chemicals lingering to cause harm. This will ensure your commercial premises’ impact on both your people and the environment is as low as possible. Green cleaning really has you covered.
What Products are Used?
Many cleaning products contain bioaccumulative toxic chemicals that build up in spaces, buildings, and even living bodies and tissue. So that fresh sparking office could actually be poison for those who come in contact with it and cause illnesses over a long period of time. Traditional products usually mean cleaners need to use protective gear and instruments just to be around these products so imagine the lingering effect for building users the next day! The required protective equipment may include gloves, masks and other PPE as these products contain harsh chemicals that cause serious harm to those who come in contact with them. Green cleaning removes these possible dangers and the need for PPE as low-toxicity chemicals and natural cleaners with organic ingredients are safer and non-toxic. These options are the best for human safety and, after all, the most important element of it all is the safety aspect for all involved including the cleaners, employees, visitors and clients.
Environmental Benefits of Green Cleaners
Green cleaning products are safer than conventional cleaners as they avoid all the harsh chemical auditions that are known to be destructive to the local ecosystem, contaminating the air, water and earth. These same chemicals can also cause breathing difficulties, allergies and other issues for people and animals that come into contact with them. The devastation is amplified when these same chemicals leak or are washed into the local sewers and waterways, causing the effects to be far more devastating for people, animals and the environment. Everyone and everything can suffer serious health impacts from coming into contact with contaminants and contaminated water.
Are There Additional Benefits For a Company?
Besides the details listed above, there are many additional pros for a company that wants to “go green”. After all, many companies may want to take this step but are concerned about the costs associated. But as it turns out, green cleaning can be economical too and has other additional benefits.
Green Cleaning is a Money Saver
Going green is no longer an expensive option that requires a substantial budget. In fact, in the modern age it is a cost-effective option, moreso that many companies realise. Today, sustainable cleaning products are similarly priced to normal ones including those organic varieties that were once too cost prohibitive to consider. Plus, the implementation of green practices to conserve energy and decrease water expenditures to create effective cost savings for the wider business bottomline. Green initiatives that focus on sustainable practices will ensure your business runs more efficiently and economically.
Improves Indoor Air Quality
There is substantial research that has suggested that asthma and respiratory symptoms can be linked to chemical cleaning product use. By switching to eco-friendly products, air quality will be improved and harmful chemicals will be removed, ultimately improving the health and safety of the company staff and other building users. This can be done with general cleaning or regular ventilation system cleaning and maintenance. Either way, using safe-to-breathe products will make a huge difference to the breathability of the air in your commercial premises.
Avoids Sick Building Syndrome
Do you find your staff get sick easily? Does flu and illness season seem to be non-stop during the year rather than simply seasonally? Perhaps it’s stress-depleting your office workers’ immune systems or maybe it’s a buildup of chemicals and harmful substances, known as Sick Building Syndrome. Green cleaning is healthier for your workplace as it helps to reduce the toxic load that may already be hampering your workplace. Without harmful chemicals employees are less likely to contract illnesses and need sick days. Sounds like a win-win for everyone!
Go Green to Clean in 2023
Many reputable cleaning companies have elected to offer green cleaning as a standard service and focus on using natural and healthy products. Cleaning is no longer about aesthetics, and instead is refocused on safety and having those all-important eco-friendly credentials. Be sure to ask your cleaning company what they’re doing to move towards a better world that uses less harmful chemicals.
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