Home › magazine › latest news
Street cleaners take on vicious seagulls with brooms and litter-pickers
22nd of July 2022
Two street cleaners who were dive-bombed by vicious seagulls used their brooms and litter-pickers to protect a woman from a similar attack.
Mark Vernon and Steve Scott Quaint were cleaning the streets of Rhuddlan, Denbighshire, when the nesting seagulls attacked them.
"Steve was checking the bins while I searched the car park for litter," said
Reality cleaning contest
22nd of July 2022
Lotte Printz in Denmark reviews a new reality TV format on cleaning.
“Maybe you have even been inspired to live a cleaner life!”
These are the final words by the celebrity host of a brand new reality TV format about cleaning, spoken as the closing credits appear on the screen in the seventh and final episode and the nine contestants
2023 European Cleaning & Hygiene Awards to be held in Dublin
20th of July 2022
European Cleaning Journal, organiser of the European Cleaning & Hygiene Awards, has revealed details of the 2023 event. The industry's only pan-European awards ceremony will next take place on October 5 in Dublin.
The gala dinner will take place in The Round Room at The Mansion House.
Entries for this sixth year of the competition will open
UK is short of cleaners following pandemic
20th of July 2022
Overseas workers returning home and operatives switching jobs following the Covid-19 pandemic have led to a shortage of cleaners in the UK, according to the British Cleaning Council.
The BCC surveyed 11 firms to assess the extent of the issue. Two firms revealed vacancy rates of 12 per cent and 16.8 per cent respectively, while a third company
Should we worry about Monkeypox?
19th of July 2022
Lynn Webster in the UK on how the cleaning sector is assessing another virus in the news.
As we are becoming less fraught after dealing with the height of the Covid pandemic, and some level of normality returns to our lives, we face the potential risk from the recent changes in behaviours of another envelope virus. Monkeypox.
Whilst we are
Cleaning practices versus regimes
18th of July 2022
Dutch reporter John Griep on how sector body VSR trains the cleaning inspectors who visit client sites.
What do you do, as a cleaning inspector, if cleaning light switches is still in the cleaning regimen while almost all the lights in the building you are in are turned on and off automatically by sensors? Typically, this is the kind of situation
RSS