TOMORROW’S CLEANING MARCH 10
BPI aids Haiti clean-up
Europe’s largest manufacturer of polythene of BPI that produces products for the
Greyland’s future World Cup
films, bags and sacks, British Polythene healthcare, facilities management and
contenders for 2018?
Industries (BPI) plc has made a significant janitorial sectors using recycled waste
product donation in support of on-going relief polythene. The business was approached for
Cleaning chemicals manufacturer Greyland
efforts in Haiti. the donation by charity Oxfam in late January
continues its local football team sponsorship
with High Lane Under 14s, (pictured sporting
10,000 clinical waste sacks, 10,000 household
in what’s been the largest charity request it’s
their rather vivid Greyland-supplied strip) and
waste bags and 500 body bags from the firm
received to date.
has recently added Astley & Tyldesley Junior
have already arrived on the devastated Only a few days later, the requested products
FC Under 8s.
Caribbean island to help with clean-up left the bpi.recycled products’ Heanor,
operations following the 12th January Derbyshire facility before being transported,
“We feel that it
earthquake that’s so far left 150,000 people free of charge, by local haulier Lockwood
is important for
confirmed dead and 1.5 million homeless. Haulage to RAF Brize Norton and then an
businesses to
support local
All of the products donated were manufactured
onward flight to Haiti.
activities”, says
by bpi.recycled products, a specialist division www.bpipoly.com
Richard Dyson,
Greyland MD, “and given the messages of
Campaign set to
bacteria a significant distance across a
obesity and lack of fitness in kids that we
boost demand for
washroom – up to two metres away in the case
hear about these days, how else better than
of a jet air dryer. Paper towels showed no
in helping to encourage team enthusiasm on
paper towels
significant spread of bacteria.
the sports field?”
KIMBERLY-CLARK PROFESSIONAL* has
“The results of the University of Westminster
Yes they look good, and we hear they even
launched a major new campaign to highlight
study will come as a surprise to many people,”
won a game recently, so it’s not all posing.
the advantages of paper towels over other
says category manager Richard Millard.
hand drying systems.
“Businesses and organisations have often
David Beckham better watch out!
been told over the years that electric hand
www.greyland.co.uk
The ‘Take Control of Poor Hand Drying’ will
dryers are the most hygienic way to dry hands
focus on alerting companies and organisations
after washing them. The reality, however,
to the fact that their choice of hand drying
specifically requesting paper towels from their
could not be more different, with this research
facilities in staff and public washrooms can
contract cleaners and facilities managers.”
suggesting people could even be putting
impact hygiene levels, productivity, customer
themselves at increased risk of spreading
View the video about our hygienic drying
relations and reputation.
germs by using dryers.
campaign at:
Targeting businesses across all sectors, the
“Our campaign will address all of these issues
www.kcprofessional.com/uk/handhygiene
campaign is expected to result in increased
and, we believe, will lead to companies www.kcpreducetoday.com
requests to contract cleaners and facilities
managers for paper towels as the organisations
employing them realise electric hand dryers
and linen towels fall short in terms of hygienic
performance and practicality.
The campaign has been prompted by recent
scientific research conducted by London’s
University of Westminster, which found that the
use of electric dryers could dramatically
increase levels of bacteria on subjects’ hands
– by an average of 254% in the case of a warm
air dryer. Conversely, using a paper towel
reduced the total number of bacteria on hands
by an average of 77%. Researchers also found
that using electric hand dryers could blow
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