Clean for Health and Prosper
You've likely heard the saying, "Nice guys finish last", but they can finish first, especially when they clean for health and not just for appearances. Per the book, Guerrilla Marketing to Heal the World, "socially responsible [businesses] do better... [because] [...]
How to Buy a Cordless Vacuum
The Wall Street Journal, Buy Side, interviewed Indoor Health Council on "How to Buy a Cordless Vacuum" and in-house expert, George Jackson of Advance Cleaning Equipment, Boise, ID, provided answers. Q: What factors should people consider when purchasing a cordless [...]
The High Cost of Wearing Street Shoes Indoors
Wearing street shoes indoors comes at a price: you may be tracking heavy metal dust from roadways, pesticide residues, and other unwanted substances. The Japanese custom of leaving street shoes in a rack by the door and donning alternate [...]
Stick Vacuums and Vacs for tile
In general, all dry vacuums work on a simple premise: particles in vs. particles out. The more particles brought in and the fewest released back to the environment, the better. A vacuum, stick or otherwise, is a system in which [...]
Effective Vacuuming and Carpet Spotting
Proper regular vacuuming addresses two issues: 1. Removes fine dust from carpet so it does not get stirred up by walking on it. Most people produce an invisible cloud of dust when they walk on carpet. 2. An effective vacuum [...]
What is Special About the Safer Choice Label?
Safer Choice is EPA’s label for safer chemical-based products. Every chemical, regardless of percentage, in a Safer Choice-certified product is evaluated through EPA’s rigorous scientific process and only the safest ingredients are allowed. For over 15 years, the program [...]
EPA Provides Interim Guidance on Porous Surfaces
While EPA-Registration of products for hard surface disinfection is the bedrock of many infection control programs that protect human health, EPA has now also developed evidence-based guidance for porous surfaces...
The Road to Success: Provide Value
In his book, Guerrilla Marketing to Heal the World, green business expert Shel Horowitz says: "In the business world, we hear a lot about cutthroat competition and gaining advantage over the enemy. In some circles, it seems to be a [...]
What is Engineered Water?
The Engineered Water Consortium (EWC) defined Engineered Water (EW) as: “Water engineered to meet the performance requirements of professional cleaning, sanitizing and/or disinfecting, with long-term value and green factors as key uptake and ethical drivers, and On Site Generation (OSG) [...]
Quality or Quantity?
When cleaning, is it quality or quantity that counts? Dr. Bill Bellows, a member of our council, writing in the Lean Management Journal said: “The word ‘quality’ has Latin roots,…