Public celebrate cleaning’s valuable role
at popular parade The Worshipful Company of Environmental Cleaners (WCEC) made a radiant impression with the public at this year’s Lord Mayor’s Show with their innovative float, ‘The Cleanest Link’.
Highlighting the crucial role of cleanliness in maintaining the health and vibrancy of London and beyond, the float was a crowd favourite.
Spectators at the popular civic procession joined in chanting ‘Nice to clean you, to clean you, nice!’ along with everyone on the float. That included the Master, Lorraine Larman, and many other members of the livery company representing the breadth of the cleaning industry. Onlookers were encouraged to sing along to well-known songs that mentioned cleaning in some way.
‘The Cleanest Link’ float was designed on a game show theme. It featured state-of-the-art cleaning equipment, eco-friendly products and cutting-edge technology, demonstrating the past, present and vibrant future of the cleaning industry.
The event reinforced the message that cleanliness is essential to our wellbeing, celebrated the hard work of skilled cleaning professionals and cleaning’s valuable
contribution to society and the economy. The WCEC made a lasting impression, raising cleaning’s profile and inspiring people to contribute to a cleaner, greener London.
WCEC Master, Lorraine Larman, said: “What a fantastic day we had. It was everything I hoped for and more to bring attention to our amazing cleaning industry and what we do. I also want to say a big thank you to all the companies who sponsored the WCEC float and joined in the parade. Cleaning makes a significant impact to people and society, and being at the Lord Mayor's Show reinforced that in a fun and unforgettable way.”
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TSA to launch GLARE carbon footprint
measuring platform The TSA is putting the final touches to an initiative that could help commercial laundries around the world to become more sustainable.
GLARE – Global Laundry and Rental Emissions platform – will allow laundries to easily measure their carbon footprint, and may help to highlight how to reduce emissions.
Increasingly operators in industries such as hospitality, healthcare and manufacturing are scrutinising their suppliers’ sustainability credentials – GLARE will give them clear and comparable data about laundries’ emissions.
Measuring a businesses’ carbon footprint is an important step towards sustainability, but there’s an issue: which methodology is best? There are many to choose from, each of which will give different outcomes. The TSA’s Sustainability Steering Group worked with consultant Grain Sustainability to make provisions within the industry’s
sustainability roadmap to measure and reduce carbon emissions, using well-established platforms such as Compare Your Footprint.
This platform became the foundation for GLARE – however, the long-term vision is to specifically tailor it for the laundry industry. For example, it could potentially include emissions factors relating to oxygenated bleaches, as used by commercial laundries, and recycled rental textile products.
David Stevens, CEO of the TSA, said: “One of the critical things with this type of platform is that it has to be easy to use, to encourage operators to put in the data. We’ve trialled GLARE with some of our members, and they have described it as flexible, simple and intuitive.”
The TSA’s GLARE initiative received an enthusiastic welcome when it was presented to several other national associations in Europe and to the TRSA (the USA’s Textile Rental Services Association). They have agreed to support and promote the initiative, seeing it as a global solution to a global issue.
GLARE will be launched early in 2025, when full details will also be released. In the UK, it will be offered free to members of the TSA.
Stevens added: “We believe GLARE will make a major contribution to the industry’s carbon net zero objectives.”
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