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Gum firms to invest €11.62 million in cleaning up streets
10th of September 2021
Major chewing gum producers have pledged up to £10 million over five years to help reduce gum litter.
Mars Wrigley, GlaxoSmithKline and Perfetti Van Melle are among the companies investing in the scheme. It will begin later this year and be managed by Keep Britain Tidy.
Around 87 per cent of England's streets are stained with gum,
New chairman for British Cleaning Council
9th of September 2021
The British Cleaning Council (BCC) - the UK umbrella organisation made up of over 20 cleaning and hygiene associations - has elected Jim Melvin as its new chairman. He takes over from Paul Thrupp.
Melvin is group chief executive of Exclusive Services Group and a director at BCC member the Cleaning and Support Services Association (CSSA). He will
Ambulance cleaning could be sped up with microwave sterilisation
8th of September 2021
A new microwave sterilisation technique developed in Scotland is claimed to dramatically speed up the process of ambulance cleaning.
The method uses electromagnetic waves, antennae, sensor beacons and a liquid layer to rapidly heat up and sterilise surfaces from a safe distance.
Leading the research team of microwave engineers, infectious
Essity partners with IPS and Sodexo to provide healthcare education
7th of September 2021
Tork, Essity's global professional hygiene brand, has partnered with the Infection Prevention Society (IPS) and global service provider Sodexo to launch an Environment, Cleaning and Decontamination (ECD) programme to support infection prevention practitioners as they tackle the spread of infections in healthcare settings.
The new ECD programme
‘Crisis’ in public toilet provision across the UK
6th of September 2021
The British Toilet Association (BTA) has called for improved legislation and more government funding to address what it calls an "appalling" lack of public toilet provision throughout the UK. Public toilets are in crisis and rapidly vanishing, it says, with many of those that do remain open displaying unacceptable levels of cleanliness and hygiene
Part-time cleaner wins Tokyo gold
3rd of September 2021
A part-time cleaner at a psychiatric hospital won a gold medal for Ireland at the Tokyo Olympics.
Number one seed Kellie Harrington defeated Brazil's Beatriz Ferreira in the women's 60kg lightweight boxing final.
And when not involved in boxing, the amateur athlete is employed every other weekend cleaning a nine-patient ward at Dublin's St
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