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Workplace worries as lockdown lifts
26th of July 2021
Danes worry about returning to work so can our sector live up to expectations asks Lotte Printz.
Like cows jumping for joy as they are released to grass for the first time in spring, Danes have rushed to test centres and gladly queued for hours (in some places) to obtain a negative Covid-19 test allowing access to restaurants, museums and gyms
EFCI to host week of online seminars
23rd of July 2021
The European Cleaning and Facility Services Industry (EFCI) - the federation of the European national associations of the cleaning and facility services sector - is to host a week of online seminars from October 11-15. The focus - sustainability and innovation.
The programme will tackle the impact of Covid-19 on the industry and the challenges
Sheffield council encourages residents to borrow litter-picking equipment
22nd of July 2021
Residents of Sheffield are being offered litter-picking equipment to help them keep their city's streets clean.
Anyone keen to join the scheme is provided with a litter-picker, plastic bags and disposable gloves and is invited to pick up litter from pavements, verges and public land.
Volunteers are asked to secure the rubbish in bags, but no
The lavatory that pays out when users spend a penny
20th of July 2021
A South Korean professor has created an eco-friendly toilet that rewards students with digital currency every time they use it.
Students are "paid" to use the lavatory because each visit helps the university to offset energy bills and grow plants in the campus gardens.
The new eco-toilet toilet at South Korea's Ulsan National Institute of
TVH buys Battery Supplies
13th of July 2021
Spare parts specialist TVH, which has its headquarters in Belgium, has acquired the shares of Battery Supplies - also based in Belgium - and its subsidiaries in Meyzieu, France (Battery Supplies France) and Erftstadt, Germany (BATTEC Batterie Vertrieb).
Founded in 1999, Battery Supplies is a one-stop shop for the supply of batteries, battery
Crow finds a job in a Turkish toilet
9th of July 2021
A washroom attendant in Turkey has found himself an unlikely feathered assistant.
Ismail Atmaca is using a young crow as his deputy when away from his post.
Atmaca, from Birecik in south-east Turkey, found the crow chick on the ground earlier this year. It had apparently fallen from its nest and was too frail to fly. So Atmaca took the bird
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