Our Green Journey

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Our Green Journey

• Dean Clark
• Director
• Crawley Office Cleaning Services Ltd

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Background to the Adventure

• A family business trading for 30 years
• Provides office cleaning services to SMES
• Strong client base
• Used traditional methods of cleaning
• Where next?

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First Leg

• Aware of the growing awareness of environmental
  issues
• SUMS Course
• Met like minded companies
• Our first Green client!

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What Did I Learn From SUMS?

• Makes you realise you are not the only person
  trying to make a difference.
• Shows that small changes can make big savings
• Monitoring water electricity usage to assess
  waste
• Great notepads!

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Next Stage

• Key decision to only offer a green service
• New methods of cleaning Micro-fibre
• Re-train cleaners
• Roll out to clients
• All new contracts to be green

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What We Changed

• No chemical use where possible
• Savings on water
• Better for our cleaners clients staff
• Less COSHH regulations
• Recycled sustainable paper
• Low emission cars
• Working with clients on green initiatives

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Facts Figures

• Water usage over sites decreased by 80 in a
  year
• Switching cars decreased fuel usage by 43
• Reduction of plastic bottles and aerosols by 800
  per annum

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The Future

• Convert our remaining clients
• The more new clients we have the more the impact
  on the environment is lessened.

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Our Green Journey

• Dean Clark
• Director
• Crawley Office Cleaning Services Ltd