10 QUESTIONS
10 QUESTIONS WITH... JOHN FATHERS
Each month we sit down with a cleaning industry professional to ask them the Tomorrow’s Cleaning 10 Questions. This month, we chatted to John Fathers, CEO at Green World Innovations.
pollution that comes as a result of pouring the toxic solutions away after cleaning. Chemicals also damage people’s health – both those who clean for a living and those who work in buildings that are cleaned. It just doesn’t make sense to continue down the chemical route when there are now alternatives that perform just as well, if not better.
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WHAT WAS YOUR FIRST JOB?
After trying my hand at a few other jobs when I was younger, I then started to work as a cleaner and cleaned computer rooms in the late 1970s.
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Q5
HOW DID YOU GET INTO THE CLEANING INDUSTRY?
My father owned the business that cleaned computer rooms and so he gave me a job in the company!
WHICH THREE WORDS DESCRIBE YOUR
PERSONALITY? This is a tricky one but I would say confident, driven and kind.
IF YOU COULD VISIT ONE PLACE IN THE WORLD,
WHERE WOULD YOU GO AND WHY? It would have to be the Helford river in Cornwall. It really is the most peaceful place I know.
HOW WOULD YOU IMPROVE THE CLEANING
INDUSTRY? Make it chemical free! It’s about time that the cleaning industry moved forward and used other methods for cleaning that avoid the use of chemicals. Chemical cleaning is damaging the environment – not only the pollution involved in the manufacturing of them but also the
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IF AN INTERN WERE TO START TOMORROW,
WHAT’S THE ONE PIECE OF ADVICE YOU WOULD GIVE THEM? Make sure you leave knowing more than when you arrived. It’s important to learn from every experience.
IF YOU WON THE LOTTERY TOMORROW, HOW WOULD
YOU SPEND YOUR FORTUNE? I’d use it commercially to enhance my business desires; I’d donate to charitable purposes and improve my family and friends’ lifestyle.
Q8
IF YOU COULD HOST A DINNER PARTY AND INVITE
ANY THREE PEOPLE, DEAD OR ALIVE, WHO WOULD THEY BE AND WHY? I’d like to chat to the CEO of Diversey (supplier of cleaning chemicals); CEO of Ecolab and the Director of the European Agency for Health and Safety at work to discuss the adoption of ‘green’ cleaning in the UK.
Q9
WHAT, DO YOU THINK, IS THE FUTURE OF THE
CLEANING INDUSTRY? I really hope it’ll be healthier, safer and more environmentally friendly.
Philip Morrish, Master of The Worshipful Company of Environmental Cleaners, asks:
Q10
HOW WOULD YOU IMPROVE THE
WORSHIPFUL COMPANY OF
Helford
ENVIRONMENTAL CLEANERS’ RELEVANCE TO, AND ENGAGEMENT WITH, THE CLEANING INDUSTRY? I would suggest that they need to talk about, and support innovation and get more involved with the developments taking place in the industry.
www.greenworldgb.com
Check out next month’s issue to see what John asked our next industry professional...
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