Green Cleaning: How and Why
Yes, it works just as well as old-style cleaning. (Or better) And no, it doesn't cost more.
Why clean 'green'?
Soaps, detergents and cleaning agents may seem harmless enough. After all, what could be wrong with 'clean'? But as we discovered over the years, some of the compounds used in cleaning agents aren't as benign as everyone thought.
Cleaning compounds can take a toll on the people who use them, and since the chemicals usually go down the drain, they ultimately end up in rivers, lake and streams, where they can leave a mess behind. Not a good thing.
What you don't want
In the old days cleaning agents were often about brute force. We blasted things clean with lye, ammonia, naphtha, carbon tetrachloride, alcohols, kerosene, and raw bleach. Yes, these sledge-hammer treatments worked, but they also burned, blistered, smelled bad, and made your eyes water. (Remember your grandmother's oven cleaner?)
Later, they toned things down with milder 'gentler' cleaners. But in the '60s we found that the phosphates in those detergents trickled into rivers and lakes, and created an algae overgrowth that killed fish and almost choked our waterways.
And we've recently learned that compounds such as NPE (nonyphenol ethoxylate) -- a low-cost surfactant used in detergents -- has potentially damaging effects on people, and wreaks havoc in aquatic ecosystems. It's already been banned in most of Europe. Canada and Japan will follow. (We banned it here at SafeWash, too. Never use it.)
Reality: Green cleans like the wind
Fact is, even if you're responsible for cleaning city buses, dump trucks, or food processing plants, even if you're staring down a fleet of dirty aircraft or a two-acre meat packing facility that has to be ready by morning, you don't have to rely on 'undesirable', off-limits cleaning agents to get the job done.
At SafeWash, our detergent chemists have found ingenious ways to eliminate the known environmental hazards from cleaning agents, while giving you all the scrubbing and washing power you need. No NPE. Biodegradable. Low VOC.
Example: Our all-green, NPE-free cleaning solutions are at work in the most demanding situations you can imagine. Consider New York City Sanitation Trucks. (Not a job for wimpy cleaners.) Jet Blue aircraft. George Weston Bakeries. Netjets. Long Island Railroad, and many many others.
Reality: Green is cheap
But don't these 'green' cleaning solutions cost way more to use? Actually, no.
Per truck, per floor, per shift, using SafeWash solutions will cost no more than you're paying now for outmoded detergents and cleaners. You can go green, get clean, without straining your maintenance budget.
With SafeWash Technologies, Green is easy.
Yes, it works just as well as old-style cleaning. (Or better) And no, it doesn't cost more.
Why clean 'green'?
Soaps, detergents and cleaning agents may seem harmless enough. After all, what could be wrong with 'clean'? But as we discovered over the years, some of the compounds used in cleaning agents aren't as benign as everyone thought.
Cleaning compounds can take a toll on the people who use them, and since the chemicals usually go down the drain, they ultimately end up in rivers, lake and streams, where they can leave a mess behind. Not a good thing.
What you don't want
In the old days cleaning agents were often about brute force. We blasted things clean with lye, ammonia, naphtha, carbon tetrachloride, alcohols, kerosene, and raw bleach. Yes, these sledge-hammer treatments worked, but they also burned, blistered, smelled bad, and made your eyes water. (Remember your grandmother's oven cleaner?)
Later, they toned things down with milder 'gentler' cleaners. But in the '60s we found that the phosphates in those detergents trickled into rivers and lakes, and created an algae overgrowth that killed fish and almost choked our waterways.
And we've recently learned that compounds such as NPE (nonyphenol ethoxylate) -- a low-cost surfactant used in detergents -- has potentially damaging effects on people, and wreaks havoc in aquatic ecosystems. It's already been banned in most of Europe. Canada and Japan will follow. (We banned it here at SafeWash, too. Never use it.)
Reality: Green cleans like the wind
Fact is, even if you're responsible for cleaning city buses, dump trucks, or food processing plants, even if you're staring down a fleet of dirty aircraft or a two-acre meat packing facility that has to be ready by morning, you don't have to rely on 'undesirable', off-limits cleaning agents to get the job done.
At SafeWash, our detergent chemists have found ingenious ways to eliminate the known environmental hazards from cleaning agents, while giving you all the scrubbing and washing power you need. No NPE. Biodegradable. Low VOC.
Example: Our all-green, NPE-free cleaning solutions are at work in the most demanding situations you can imagine. Consider New York City Sanitation Trucks. (Not a job for wimpy cleaners.) Jet Blue aircraft. George Weston Bakeries. Netjets. Long Island Railroad, and many many others.
Reality: Green is cheap
But don't these 'green' cleaning solutions cost way more to use? Actually, no.
Per truck, per floor, per shift, using SafeWash solutions will cost no more than you're paying now for outmoded detergents and cleaners. You can go green, get clean, without straining your maintenance budget.
With SafeWash Technologies, Green is easy.