Green cleaning seems so simple. The changes are subtle but effective. For example, take the green cleaning method of damp mopping a floor. The process involves proper cleaning techniques, and includes measures to protect the housekeeper’s back.
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency developed a tool for use by the federal agency’s environmental, health and safety managers to estimate the benefits that could be accomplished by adopting green cleaning practices. The EPA intends to use this tool to evaluate the environmental attributes of janitorial contracts.
Ammonia-based chemicals, Acid-based chemicals and Bleach-based products are the standard products of traditional cleaning services. Individually these products are dangerous enough, but when they are intentionally or inadvertently mixed, they can cause tragic and fatal results. Unfortunately, cleaners sometimes seek to create a “stronger” cleaning mixture to either ease the cleaning effort or to tackle [...]
