SUSTAINABILITY Supporting client’s green ambitions
With clients increasingly demanding green partners, sustainability must be top of the agenda for the professional cleaning sector. Here, Peter Buff, Managing Director of Kingdom Cleaning, explains how the sector can support customers’ eco ambitions.
We’re also implementing 100% natural cleaning systems. Our salt-based cleaning solution, electrolysed by a small electrical current, recombines naturally occurring elements to create an effective disinfectant and cleaning agent.
Safe and hypoallergenic, there’s no need for gloves and it’s harmless to the environment. Killing 99.99% of viruses and bacteria, it can be used on any surface, including glass and fabrics. This provides our teams with an eco-friendly cleaning solution that’s virtually free to make. As it’s refillable, it eradicates waste, so no more single-use plastic pollution. This technology is constantly evolving, marking a major step forward in ‘green cleaning’.
• Embracing innovation
Sustainability has always been a key consideration for the cleaning and hygiene sector, from the raw materials used to the way processes are powered. With customers now contemplating the entire social value chain when choosing suppliers, professional cleaning companies are under more pressure than ever to demonstrate their sustainability commitments.
Clients aren’t only looking for companies that use ‘green’ cleaning products, but they’re also considering other aspects, such as the packaging used, the impact they have on their environment, and the carbon emissions produced during the cleaning process. They are also looking at how suppliers view their own sustainability responsibilities, to ensure they only align themselves with partners that share their values.
Committing to sustainability
For a true commitment to ‘green cleaning’, we must evaluate the complete supply chain, from product selection and service delivery to carbon offsetting and people management. Here are just a few ways we have embedded sustainability in our ‘professional cleaning with a conscience’ strategy:
• Carbon neutral cleaning
Our fully carbon neutral cleaning system, C2Zero, ensures we deliver a zero-carbon impact on our customer sites by monitoring and managing the operational emissions of our cleaning activities.
It’s part of our standard package to customers, ensuring all our operations are green and help clients to meet their own sustainability targets. By understanding and measuring in this way, we can offset the impact of our operations and return them to a carbon neutral position.
• Eco cleaning solutions
Our wholly organic cleaning solutions use non-pathogenic bacteria to create enzymes for breaking down waste, soils, stains and malodours. We’ve found Bio-Enzymatic cleaning to have increased efficacy in a number of applications.
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Technology also has a major role to play in being more environmentally friendly, making many processes more efficient. The use of cobotics, which work alongside cleaning operatives to automate repetitive tasks (such as cleaning large floor areas), support our sustainability mission by using less energy and water than traditional machines.
• Carbon offsetting
We introduced our ‘measure, reduce and offset’ approach to carbon management, and our ‘no impact’ ethos ensures we focus on further reducing carbon emissions.
• Reducing waste
We’ve also selected products which have more environmentally friendly packaging, and dosing systems that reduce the amount of waste we send to landfill. From minimising the waste we produce in the first place to reusing machinery and equipment to give them longer lives, these steps can cut the amount sent to landfill or end up in our oceans and waterways.
• Mindful partners
Just as clients are, we’re increasingly selecting partners based on shared values and approaches to sustainability. For example, when we purchase i-mop through Killis, we donate 18L of water a day to areas of the world that need it, through their Made Blue Scheme.
A greener future
As eco-conscious customers increasingly demand sustainable partners, we have to do all we can to ensure that every aspect of our operations supports their green ambitions. At Kingdom Cleaning, we take a proactive approach to sustainability and are actively developing the third phase of our carbon management programme, which will see a full supply chain compliance rollout, and ultimately enable us to collaborate with our partners and influence the reduction of our wider associated emissions.
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