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Six-week Glastonbury clean-up begins
8th of July 2013
As Glastonbury festival-goers packed up their tents last week they were literally wading through litter. But spare a thought for those responsible for cleaning up the UK site - home to one of the world's largest music festivals - and getting it back to a fully functioning farm.
It will take six weeks for 1,300 recycling volunteers to pick up the
Compliance technology – a hot topic in hand hygiene
5th of July 2013
Mike Sullivan, managing director of hand hygiene products supplier GOJO Industries - Europe writes his latest hand hygiene blog for the ECJ website. He has worked closely with the UK National Health Service (NHS), the World Health Organisation (WHO), the Société Française d'Hygiène Hospitalière, the
Stuttgart court rules activated water no better than tap water in Tennant vs Kärcher case
4th of July 2013
In the long running legal dispute between cleaning machine manufacturers Tennant and Kärcher, the Stuttgart Regional Court - which is local to the Kärcher HQ - has ruled that advertising claims by Tennant regarding its ec-H2O technology are misleading.
The basis of the lawsuits brought in Germany, Belgium and the UK is a number of
Markus Asch confirmed as VDMA trade association chairman
3rd of July 2013
German cleaning machine trade association VDMA re-elected Markus Asch of Kärcher as its chairman during its annual general meeting recently.
Also elected to the board were Uwe Brenne of Hako, Dr Reinhard Man of Nilfisk-Advance, IP Gansow's Guiseppe Mariani and Jörg Peter Staehle of Columbus Cleaning Equipment.
Asch commented on his
NHS trust uses ‘Gangnam Style' to promote hand hygiene
2nd of July 2013
A video that shows hospital staff at a North London NHS trust dancing 'Gangnam Style' and singing about the importance of washing the hands effectively has notched up nearly 20,000 YouTube views.
More than 200 members of staff at Barnet and Chase Farm Hospitals' NHS trust including doctors, nurses, receptionists and porters took part in the
Inventor's hand dryer judged world's best after suicide
1st of July 2013
A bankrupt inventor in the UK committed suicide without realising the hand dryer he had invented had been hailed the world's best.
Peter Williams, the inventor of the Vortex hand dryer - now marketed by Savortex - was struggling with heavy debts and died months before his device was judged by Guinness World Records to be the world's most energy
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