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Using AI to clean public spaces
10th of July 2025 Article by Christian Bouzols
A French start-up is using AI to detect abandoned waste, reports Christian Bouzols.
How can we improve cleaning in public spaces? Marseille-based start-up Litter Snap uses artificial intelligence to optimise waste collection. Using images from drones, surveillance cameras and even mobile phones, its technology geolocates waste, which is then displayed on a digital map.
Luc Haumonté launched Litter Snap in March 202..
Rise of specialist qualifications
18th of June 2025 Article by Anna Garbagna
The industry is seeing an increase in more specialist aspects, reports Anna Garbagna from Italy.
The Pandemic has caused a widespread diffusion of sanitisation systems for domestic and working environments, as well as creating the need to establish benchmarks to assess the effectiveness and safety of indoor sanitisation methods.
This situation has led to a search for increasingly specific professions that must be identifi..
Solar panel cleaning niche
11th of June 2025 Article by Christian Bouzols
ECJ’s Christian Bouzols on a new cleaning sector that’s booming in France - solar panels.
The solar panel cleaning sector is booming, fuelled by the increase in photovoltaic installations in France. Thanks to some state subsidies (incentives, reduced VAT rate) and current regulations, this niche market is attracting more and more cleaning companies. Some are targeting small areas with conventional equipment, while oth..
Daytime cleaning study published
4th of June 2025 Article by Katja Scholz
As Katja Scholz in Germany reports, the topic of daytime cleaning is being widely discussed.
Daytime cleaning is a topic which crops up increasingly in questionnaires, discussions and studies relating to the contract cleaning sector – and rightly so, as there are numerous advantages as well as reservations to consider and it is certainly an approach more suitable for some companies and their employees than for others.
..A little imagination needed?
28th of May 2025 Article by Lynn Webster
Lynn Webster in the UK on how the challenges resulting from unavoidable rising costs can be met.
The beginning of April sparked some considerable activity in the UK with the increase in minimum wage to £12.21 (€14.37) per hour but more so with the most dramatic hike in employers’ national insurance contributions. The main change was an increase in the rate from 13.8 per cent up to 15 per cent. The threshold (the ..
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