In the Beginning

In the early days there was little demand for green cleaning.   No one was interested and no one understood what green was, it was confusing.  And because of such a low demand, it was impossible to justifiy the cost for manufactures to research and develop new green products; that made it diffucult for distributors to justify stocking a complete line and when people just did not seem to care.

Today's Green Market

Today, the market is very different as green cleaning has become easy to accomplish for both supply and  the demand side.   Organizations such as USGBC did not even exist when this effort began, and today it boasts some 6,000 organizational members including many from the professional cleaning industry.   In the early days green products we often more expensive as were the service providers and or did not perform very well.   Often products offer environmental benefits at the expense of effectiveness, or vise versa.   Today as the competition increased, cost began to decrease as both economics of scale and tightening margins resulted in products that today work as well, if not better than their traditional counterparts and at competitive prices

Where Do We Go From Here?

In the future will everyone be doing green cleaning? Probably not.  While governments may require their building to use green approaches, it is not anticipated that legislation will mandate cleaning standard across the industry.  Green cleaning will always continue to be market driven with a widening gap in the market.  That gap will separate those organizations focused solely on price and those committed to values such as their employees, the environment and other similar issues.

Immediate Future

The green cleaning future is already here;  Where is all this going?  Is green cleaning fad or future?  Of course, we believe the latter and our vision reflects this.  Underlying it is assumption that no one would reject a service that is more healthful and efficient and performs well.

In The End

Not everyone will be interested in green cleaning.  Some customers will always look for the cheapest means by which to meet the minimum legal requirements. Or simply don't care.  But for an increasing part of the marketplace, more and more organizations will adopt green cleaning requirements.

When people start demanding better indoor quality for their own health only then will more owners and managers listen.

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The primary benefit of green cleaning with its emphasis on cleaning for health, not just appearance, is a cleaner, healthier building. and a healthier indoor environment translates into concrete, bottom-line benefits for building owners, managers, and building occupants.

Increase productivity - reduces health problems among workers, reduces absenteeism.

Improve worker recruitment and retention - healthy indoor environment improves morale among existing employees

Potential greater income in rental - more tenants are aware of indoor air quality and will actually spend more per square foot in a "green’ building.

Lowers cost - better cleaning procedures and safer products improve health of building occupants and workers, reducing healthcare cost. Correcting a problem at the source, such as using safer products, cost significantly less and is more effective than taking corrective action at a later date.

Fewer complaints - as the building is maintained better there will be fewer complaints.

Compliance with new governmental regulations - using less toxic chemicals helps ensure compliance with the current and emerging regulations.

Longer lasting buildings - green cleaning often extends the life of facility’s carpets, floors, furnishings, computers, HVAC systems and other components

Better public image -with increased publicity, the environment has gotten in recent years, green cleaning will create a more favorable image for facilities.

Green Cleaning - a way to clean using environmentally safer products to safe guard human health while minimizing the impact on the environment.

There was very little demand for environmentally safer products in the past because many people believed changing to environmentally safer products will be significantly more expensive and / or didn't work as well. Now days there are much better products available. 

We at Total Clean Up will only use environmentally safer products that have been tested to be both safer and work just as well /or better than the standard cleaning chemicals. We believe in environmentally safer products without compromising quality

Illness are reduced by 24%

Doctor visits reduced by 34%

Courses of antibiotics reduced by 24%

Days absent by 46%

Green cleaning extends the life of facility's carpets, floors, furnishings, computers, HVAC systems, and other components.  This reduces replacement costs and saves the owner money in the long-run.

EPA ranks indoor air quality as one of the top 5 risks in the U.S. excessive VOC's airborne particles / dust and indoor pollutants can cause health problems among workers and building occupants, resulting in increased absenteeism and lower productivity on the job. Among some of the problems are skin, eye, throat irritation, severe allergic reactions, asthma attacks, headaches, dizziness, and nausea to fatigue.

Green cleaning with the right procedures reduces VOC's in the air and improves the health of workers and building occupants. A healthy indoor environment improves morale among existing employees and facilitates recruitment of new personnel.

Study has shown:

Air borne dust inside buildings decreased by 52%

Volatile organic chemical (VOC) concentrations decreased by 49%

Bacteria decreased by 40%

Fungi colony-forming units decreased by 61%

U.S. Business could realize a productivity gain of $30 to $150 billion annually and an increase in worker performance of 0.5 to 5% by improving their indoor environment through better ventilation and cleaning!

Even Schools benefit from green cleaning-

According to Charles Young Elementary School in Washington DC, for example:

School Attendance increased from 89% to 93%

Math scores at basic or above increased from 51% to 76%

Reading scores at basic or above increased from 59% to 75%

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