World Environment Day –protecting our planet

On 5 June it was the UN’s World Environment Day. While this day is marked every year by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), this year marked a particular milestone as it is 50 years since the United Nations conference on the Human Environment was held in 1972, in Stockholm, Sweden.

World Environment Day has been held since 1974 and is the largest global environment platform, with over 150 countries participating. Its purpose is to engage individuals and organisations around the world to raise awareness of environmental issues and to celebrate actions taken to protect the environment. This year, to mark the 50-year anniversary, the event was once again hosted by Sweden.

This year’s ‘Only One Earth’ campaign called for ‘collective, transformative action on a global scale to celebrate, protect and restore our planet’. The UNEP called on individuals, organisations, celebrities, and businesses to get involved to raise awareness and spread the word.

At Cleenol, we’ve a long history of sustainability in business and have been ISO14001 accredited since 2010, meaning we manage our environmental responsibilities in a systematic manner that contributes to the environmental pillar of sustainability.

We also operate an environmental management system, ensuring compliance with statutory and regulatory requirements relating to environmental aspects of our business activities, products and services.

In 2014, we launched our Envirological range, featuring only products that included no unnecessary raw materials, dyes, perfumes, or harmful additives, were phosphate-free, septic tank safe, and packaged in reusable or renewable containers.

We’re also committed to striking the right balance by ensuring that users of our products understand how to use them safely and avoid under-dilution, which can have harmful effects on the environment, or over-dilution, which wastes water. This is why we adhere to the principle we call ‘the Right Dose’. All of our products are carefully formulated to ensure that when used correctly, at the right dilution with the right equipment, the environmental impact is kept to a minimum and remains safe for people. In addition, our Easidose range is super-concentrated, meaning it’s compact, uses minimal packaging and is easily transportable - all of which helps to drive a lower carbon footprint. And all of the packaging is recyclable and, where possible, reusable.

Going further to help protect the environment

Yet, as the effects of climate change and the human impact on the planet become ever more apparent, we can always do more. Concerns around sustainability and the environment are ever-increasing and businesses must continue to strive to do things better. That’s why we developed our new comprehensive environmentally friendly product range, edencleen. The range delivers the same performance as the rest of our product ranges, contributing to a cleaner, safer world, without compromise. The products in this new range have been developed around the following principles and ingredients: RSPO certified palm oil derivatives; no animal derived products/ cruelty free; no parabens, formaldehyde, CMI/MIT, triclosan, phosphates, chlorine bleaches, optical brighteners, or quaternary ammonium compounds; VOC free and phosphate, EDTA, NTA free; 100% biobased surfactant made by using bio-based ethylene oxide, manufactured from biomass ethanol; uses bioethanol, naturally derived acids, sugar-based surfactants, bio-based solvents and low impact preservatives; minimal petrochemical derived products; and recyclable/recycled packaging.

This new range range includes washroom cleaner, multi-surface degreaser, allpurpose sanitiser, toilet cleaner, laundry liquid detergent, fabric conditioner, washing up liquid, and window and glass cleaner.

Cleenol launches edencleen range

CLEENOL Group has created edencleen. The range includes a washroom cleaner, toilet gel cleaner, urinal deodoriser, an all-purpose surface sanitiser, a degreaser, a washing up liquid, a no rinse floor degreaser, a window cleaner, a laundry detergent, and fabric softener.

edencleen products have been developed around a number of stringent principles and ingredients including RSPO (The Round Table on Sustainable Palm Oil) certified palm oil derivatives, no animal derived products, cruelty free, and minimal petrochemical derived products. The products are also VOC free with recyclable/recycled packaging, 100% bio-based surfactant - made by using bio-based ethylene oxide, which is manufactured from biomass ethanol, Bioethanol, naturally derived acids, sugar-based surfactants, bio-based solvents, and low impact preservatives.

Sam Greaves, MD and owner of Cleenol, said: “edencleen’s new range represents just the start to a fully refreshed solution to meet the most demanding of customer expectations. Over the course of our history, Cleenol has always produced products that offer a perfect balance between cleaning performance and efficiency with an attention to reducing the environmental impact that our products may carry. edencleen has been designed to reflect in part our vision for a cleaner, safer world that touches not only the environmental aspects of sustainability, but also has an aim and social ambition to leave the planet in the safe care of future generations.”

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FLEXIBLE offices and hybrid working models have created new hygiene challenges - and today’s employees are becoming increasingly focused on health and wellbeing. It is against this background that Essity has created the Tork Office Hygiene Package, a tailor-made selection of products, services and support tools. The package aims to help facility managers create a clean, hygienic workspace to elevate staff wellbeing and ensure that employees feel safe to return to the office.

The Tork Office Hygiene Package helps facility managers support new hand hygiene and surface cleaning behaviours in shared spaces. It also looks at how data-driven cleaning can consistently improve performance and efficiency. And it allows FMs to be more sustainable without compromising on hygiene or safety.

“People no longer review their workplace on classic employee benefits and values alone,” said Essity’s marketing director commercial, Anna Königson Koopmans. “They also want to see how far their employers deliver on health and wellbeing in the workplace. As part of the Tork Office Hygiene Package we offer a professional hygiene consultation with our experienced hygiene advisors, either on site or virtually. Based on the findings our advisors then give clear recommendations and suggest solutions to meet customers’ needs and secure excellent hygiene standards.”

Technological solutions such as Tork Vision Cleaning can help offices meet these challenges. Tork Vision Cleaning uses real-time data from people-counters and connected dispensers to show facility managers and operatives where cleaning is likely to be needed most. “Tork Vision Cleaning can be used to determine cleaning frequencies and ensure that dispensers are stocked up 99% of the time,” continued Anna. “The insights gained help to improve all processes and the reporting tools demonstrate adherence to safety regulations and provide transparency of a job well done.”

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JANGRO has made further enhancements to its award-winning and CPD-accredited e-learning platform, the Jangro Learning Management Solution (LMS). Its newly refreshed health and safety training course is now live and available for operatives to complete at www.jangrolms.net.

The newly enhanced health and safety module takes 30 minutes to complete, during which users will learn to identify risks in cleaning, prevent accidents during cleaning, recognise their responsibilities regarding health and safety, and identify chemical and biological hazards in the workspace.

Jo Gilliard, CEO at Jangro, said: “Employers have a legal responsibility to make sure that their staff have a safe working environment. But, it is also important that employees contribute to the review and development of best working practices. It is vital that together they can both properly identify common workplace accident hotspots in order to prevent them before someone gets hurt. The newly refreshed health and safety course on the LMS enables them to do just that, quickly, easily and cost effectively.”

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CHRISTEYNS, manufacturer of detergents and disinfectants for industrial laundries in Europe and across the world, has launched EPIC, an innovative detergent system. EPIC - enzymatic process innovation by Christeyns - is based on enzyme technology that allows laundries to reduce their wastewater costs by 25%.

Alain Bostoen, CEO of Christeyns, said: "Industrial laundries are facing several water challenges: the cost and availability of water, the cost of discharging wastewater and ever-stricter environmental regulations concerning its discharge. With EPIC, we can help laundries meet discharge standards and reduce wastewater costs. Currently, the technology is already being used in more than 10 European laundries."

It is surfactants that give a detergent its cleaning properties. However, these components have a negative impact on wastewater quality. Thanks to the EPIC detergent system, these surfactants are reduced by 50% and supplemented by biological enzymes. This reduces the wastewater load by 20-30%, providing substantial savings for laundries.

Olivier Mareau, application manager and EPIC project manager, continued: "EPIC is a flexible detergent system in which the enzyme mixtures are created and dosed according to the stain. These unique mixtures are dosed in the washing process separately from the adapted, enzyme-compatible detergent. So, it is not a standard allin-one detergent. Because we target stains, only a low dose of the mixture is needed for the desired effect. In a standard laundry process for hotel linen, two to four grams of detergent are dosed per kilogram of linen. With EPIC, this quantity is reduced to less than 0.9 grams.”

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