the products that they are offering the market or using, and wonder what the overall cost might be by using good quality, more eco-friendly solutions.
It’s a salutary warning, and comes alongside the fact there are cleaning products available in the marketplace today which have genuine ecological accreditation. They can be entirely effective in delivering the promise when it comes to cleaning – and designed specifically to reduce their impact on both human health and the environment.
“Cleaning companies and consumers can no longer plead ignorance to the products they use, that are
potentially damaging to health and the environment.”
ACT NOW Delphis Eco was formed some eight years ago in a determination to make a difference to the cleaning chemical market and the environmental impact that chemicals and plastics have on our world.
As a British brand, Delphis Eco is produced in the UK and has gone from strength to strength in trade markets, and will soon be launching its long awaited retail range, that consumers can use in safety but still enjoy great results.
suggest it could be a matter of time before chemicals with high volatile organic compounds (VOC’s) are proven to have damaged health as surely as asbestos was found to be carcinogenic 30 years’ ago.
And we should learn lessons from asbestos where billions have been paid out in compensation worldwide to those affected, before lawsuits start to hit in respect of toxic cleaning chemicals that individuals are inhaling and have been exposed to on a regular basis.
Scientists who carried out the study advise that such products – sprays in particular – should be avoided. Cleaning companies and consumers can no longer plead ignorance to the products they use, that are potentially damaging not just to health but to the environment as well.
The rule of thumb for the cost of cleaning products for a contract ranges between 0.5% and 1%, so in reality is totally insignificant if it’s 0.75% or 1.25%. Yet they have a totally disproportionate emotional value and are always the first line to get substituted for cheap and nasty alternatives. Their minuscule cost is inversely correlated to their environmental and human impact, and it now seems that the pennies that were saved may turn into real pounds that get paid out in claims.
In industrial terms, there will be instances where water and microfibre cloths simply aren’t able to ‘do the job’ and it is here that contract cleaners (and consumers who have cleaners helping in the home) should really consider
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The extensive range offered to cleaners is phosphate free and contain no or very little VOC’s, which are some of the most damaging contents historically found in cleaning chemicals. All the company’s products are plant-based, ecological and readily biodegradable, and every product has been developed for its environmental properties, with no loss in effectiveness when it comes to doing the job in hand.
And, in a further step of inspirational environmental stewardship, the Delphis Eco range now comes packaged in 100% post consumer recycled (PCR) plastic packaging – a move that sees it take leading ground from the big corporates who are still pledging to move to PCR recycled packaging in the next decade in a bid to reduce the 8m tonnes of plastic that are disposed of in our oceans each year.
THE WARNING SIGNS It is clear that the ruling in the case of the tobacco industry and Johnson and Johnson could change the whole legislative dynamic and set a precedent in corporate negligence.
We are running out of time if we are serious about climate change. It’s bad enough we poison the environment but we seem to be willing to do it to ourselves, at what cost?
The cleaning industry is one of the country’s greatest and biggest employers, most of which are SME companies. 100% UK recycled plastic now exists, eco cleaning products has existed for a while, and by making some very simple choices we can collectively make a huge difference.
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