Is Your Cleaning Green?

We all worry about our living environment and how we can save it. But have you ever thought about how the environment inside affects the outside one? There are many things that we do in our households and offices that harm the environment. One among them is the way we clean these spaces. There are mainly four ways in which our cleaning habits can hurt our environment.

Cleaning Agents

The usage of cleaning agents is the biggest threat the environment faces because of our cleaning habits. Most of the cleaning products we use contain chemicals that are harmful to nature. These kinds of products can be toxic to human beings when exposed to or if inhaled. And these can be a trouble maker for our environment too when washed down the drains. 

The solution to this is to use eco-friendly cleaning agents. These cleaning solutions are chlorine-free, have a pH level close to 7.0, and are products with no volatile organic compounds (VOCs). And these products will not be harmful to human beings.

Energy Usage

If you are running an office and you clean your office at regular intervals, you must be scheduling your office cleaning at a time that won't affect the smooth running of your office. And that time will probably be during after-office hours when the night starts to fall. What this will cause is an unwanted use of power because of switching on all the lights during the cleaning process, and power-saving is essential in environment conservation.

This issue can be solved by scheduling the cleaning to a time before the office hours when it is natural light or during office hours when the lights are already in use. Another way is to switch on the light only where the cleaning process is taking place.

Wasting Reusable Materials

Wasting reusable materials like papers and quality plastic products will only cause us to consume much more resources and increase the amount of waste on the face of the earth. 

Try and install recycling bins in all possible places, encourage reusing of materials, to resolve this problem.

Unwanted Waste Creation

Using use and throw materials in places where you can use reusable items that can cause unwanted waste creation. For example, using a stock cloth to clean and wipe down your kitchen space can avoid all the tissue paper that we are going to use to wipe down the same going waste. 

Most of the leading professional cleaners and end of lease cleaning service providers are known to use environment-friendly cleaning methods and products. Hiring these kinds of services is really for the best for our nature.

Practicing eco-friendly cleaning methods is one way to express your love for nature.