Taking Green Action
What is Green Cleaning?
Before delving into the benefits of environmentally friendly cleaning, let's discuss what green cleaning entails. The federal government's Executive Order 13101 (“Greening the Government…”), executed in 1998, defined “environmentally preferable” products and services as those that “have a lesser or reduced effect on human health and the environment when compared with competing products or services that serve the same purpose.” Today, green cleaning programs employ practices that promote health, safety and social consciousness, and include the use of environmentally safe cleaning products certified by organizations such as Green Seal.
Why use environmentally safe Green products?
Evidence shows that environmentally safe cleaning products and procedures provide multiple benefits to businesses and their occupants. No wonder a growing number of facilities in the United States expect their janitorial companies to use “green” cleaning processes and environmentally friendly cleaning products. In order to meet this demand, we continually educate our janitorial staff on the most effective ways to perform their jobs while protecting the environment. You can use their expertise to implement your own program, making your building or facility a healthier place.
Let us create a healthier surrounding for you!
Most of the products that we use are Green Seal certified. These environmentally safe cleaning products help improve indoor air quality and reduce the health problems that traditional products cause. Building occupants, visitors and janitorial staff experience fewer incidents of skin, eye and respiratory irritations or burns; allergies; multiple-chemical sensitivities; headaches; nausea or other gastrointestinal ailments; poisoning; cancer; reproductive hazards and/or damage to internal organs.
Healthier and more Marketable.
Your employees and/or customers will appreciate knowing that green practices and environmentally friendly cleaning products are used in your building. Going green helps you market your business as a socially and environmentally conscious one.
Healthier employees mean happier employees. Statistics show increased worker satisfaction, improved morale, reduced absenteeism, and increased productivity and efficiency.
Advanced Cleaning Services helps the earth .
Implementing our green practices can reduce the negative effect your cleaning and products have on the environment. Using environmentally friendly cleaning products in the right manner helps decrease air pollution, water pollution, ozone depletion and global climate change. Green practices also promote recycling, reduce the use of raw materials and minimize toxic products requiring disposal.
Environmentally friendly cleaning reduces costs.
Janitorial companies who are well-trained on environmentally safe cleaning products and practices can positively impact the facility's budget. A facility that utilizes Green products and services can bring in higher leasing rates per square foot from prospective tenants.
The actual cost of environmentally friendly cleaning products has become more competitive with the price of conventional counterparts, especially when other factors are considered in determining the true cost. For example, a conventional product that is extremely high in alkaline could burn a janitor, which would result in additional medical and sick leave costs, and these increased operating costs may be passed on to the facility.
Choosing Advanced Cleaning Services will increase
the safety of the building and protect property values.
While the climax of using environmentally safe cleaning products is about reducing health risks -- for humans and other living things -- our processes provide other benefits to your facility. Green procedures, including proper use, storage and disposal of materials, actually reduce the likelihood and frequency of fires, explosions, spills and splashes. Our products are less hazardous and reduce the risk that janitors, the facility or an occupant will be harmed by the product.
We also train our staff to use correctly diluted products and the right product for each job. This means, for example, that stains on carpets or upholstery are treated with the mildest, effective cleaner, thereby prolonging the life of expensive furnishings and reducing exposure to harsher chemicals.
In addition, we focus on preventative practices that are environmentally friendly. Cleaning products can be used less frequently if the building stays cleaner to begin with, and well-maintained equipment is safer and works more efficiently.
If you would like to make your building green today and request an evaluation of your facility, contact us.