Sustainability: business, life, environment

The Environmental Protection Agency estimates that Americans spend up to 90% of their time indoors.  With today’s modern, energy efficient office buildings, the sealed air inside can contain 10 times more pollution than the air outside due to toxic emissions from building constituents, airborne mold, viruses, and other pollutants.
 
Improved indoor air quality can directly contribute to good health and improved productivity.  One way to improve the indoor office environment is to clean green.  Green cleaning is defined as any method, product or service that has a diminished impact on our health and the environment, compared to conventional practices. Today’s green cleaning involves methods and products that promote safety, health and eco awareness.
 
Explained in our eco friendly consulting, commercial cleaning is a chemical -intensive industry that literally goes down the drain into our water supply.  It's estimated that the institutional cleaning industry uses 5 billion pounds of chemicals that each year. .  In addition, most cleaning products are made from petroleum and toxic cleaning products create disposal problems at the end of their life.
 
On the contrary, sustainable businesses utilizing green cleaning products and services are seeing tangible and intangible benefits of their green cleaning eco actions:
 
•    Enhanced recruitment and retention of healthy employees
•    Reduced health care costs
•    Decreased rates of illness and injuries
•    Reduced employee absenteeism
•    Increased productivity
 
Improved indoor air quality can directly contribute to good health and improved productivity as well as extend eco awareness in the workplace.