CLEANING


A BREATH OF FRESH AIR FOR GREEN CLEANING


Martin Booth, Managing Director at Green World Innovations explains how the latest in chemical innovation can help you turn your windowcleaner into to water and protect cleaners from harmful irritants.


Stimulated by increasing efforts to stop the spread of allergens and germs in healthcare, food, and beverage manufacturing applications, the global demand for cleaning chemicals is forecast to grow, up to £30.5 billion in 2018, (a rate of 4.3% annually) according to a study by Freedonia Group.


Yet, in the face of an expanding market, businesses need to take in to account a multitude of factors that could impact negatively, such as human and environmental costs and EU regulations, and should look towards alternative chemical-free cleaning solutions.


Aqueous ozone is created by introducing an extra oxygen atom to the oxygen molecule. It has the ability to clean at the same level of chemical cleaning products whilst representing none of the detrimental costs that come with them.


Being chemical-free, aqueous ozone is extremely safe to use and cleaning professionals will not have to endure the risks of skin, eye, and respiratory irritation that are commonplace with chemical-based cleaning products. Long-term exposure to chemicals that are frequently used in cleaning products can have serious lasting effects on those exposed.


A study conducted by Imperial College London tracked the occurrence of asthma in a group of 9,488 people born in Britain in 1958. Excluding those who had asthma as children, 9% developed asthma by age 42. Risks in the workplace were responsible for one in six cases of adult onset asthma - even more than the one-in-nine cases attributed to smoking, according to


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the analysis. Researchers identifi ed 18 occupations with clear links to adult onset asthma, four of which were cleaning jobs with a further three likely to involve exposure to cleaning products.


In addition, aqueous ozone is more sustainable than chemical cleaning agents and as a cleaning solution, environmentally it has little-or- no risk when being disposed of; once used it safely reverts back into ordinary water and oxygen. If businesses were to switch to a chemical-free cleaning solution such as aqueous ozone it would eliminate the need to adhere to the EU’s REACH regulations.


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WORKPLACE WERE RESPONSIBLE FOR ONE IN SIX CASES OF ADULT ONSET ASTHMA.


The regulations, set for 1st July 2015, compel businesses to identify and manage the risks linked to the chemical substances they manufacture and market in the EU, and has established measures for gathering and analysing data on the properties and hazards of chemicals. This would not only eradicate the ordinary costs of safely disposing of cleaning chemicals but also the hidden costs that are certain to appear with the implementation of the regulations.


Yet, across the cleaning industry, there is a widely held belief that


chemical based cleaning products are necessary to reach the required standards of attractive, sanitised and healthful conditions; be it in the home or the workplace. Coupling the belief that chemicals are essential, is a misconception that if the disinfectant cannot be smelled, the surface or area must not be cleaned thoroughly enough. This generally accepted narrative, which perpetuates the use of chemicals in cleaning, holds that in order to remove dust, harmful allergens and contagious germs to create a ‘healthful working environment’ chemical cleaning products with a lasting ‘clean smell’ must be used.


However, cleaning with aqueous ozone can achieve the same results as many chemical cleaning products; there needs to be a conscious and concerted effort by key infl uencers within the cleaning industry to educate industry wide, notably those purchasing and using the products.


The way in which aqueous ozone is created is the source of the solution’s cleaning power; the lasting odour or ‘clean smell’ that follows use has no impact on its effectiveness.


The instability of the third oxygen atom in aqueous ozone creates the high-quality cleaning agent, in which oxygen atoms search for something with which to bond, breaking down dirt and harmful allergens and contagious pathogens in the process. This allows for cleaning professionals to maintain standards whilst remaining protected from the often uncertain and occasionally unknown long-term risks of chemical cleaning products at typical exposure levels.


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