Toilets at music festivals are notorious for being crowded, messy and unsanitary facilities. Stuart Hands, Sales Manager of Tork manufacturer Essity, considers how the festival washroom could be improved. Open-air music festivals are the ultimate celebration of summer. There is ...
Read More »CIWM calls on Prime Minister to push ahead with proposed waste reforms
CIWM (Chartered Institution of Wastes Management) has written to the UK Prime Minster, Rishi Sunak, calling on him to push ahead with “the comprehensive and forward-looking reforms on packaging extended producer responsibility (EPR) and consistent collections that the Government introduced ...
Read More »Expansion plans unveiled for Northwood Consuma Tissue
Northwood Group successfully launched Northwood Consuma Tissue (NCT) in December 2022, and has now announced the expansion of its converting capability with the purchase of a new 14-acre site housing a 235,000 sq ft facility in Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, which ...
Read More »Robert Scott adds advanced floor cleaning robot to its portfolio
Robert Scott has expanded its offering with a new advanced floor cleaning robot, the Meta-Scrub 60. Working in collaboration with humans, the Meta-Scrub 60 is designed for effective, autonomous floor cleaning and is the first product of its kind to ...
Read More »Churchill wins Met Police cleaning deal
Churchill, one of the UK’s largest soft-service providers, has won a wide-ranging three-year contract with the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS). The contract has the option to extend for another two + two years and will see Churchill cleaning operatives deployed ...
Read More »Wolf Laundry launches exclusive end-to-end smart laundry solution in the UK
On 27 June, Barnsley-based Wolf Laundry is bringing serviceMaster, an end-to-end smart laundry solution, to the UK, in partnership with leading Swiss washing technology group Schulthess. Wolf has more than 30 years’ experience within the laundry sector and provides bespoke ...
Read More »Fatbergs to become a thing of the past
Birmingham based multi-venue hospitality space, The Arcadian, has been involved in a trial which has shown that the risk of fatbergs can be eliminated before they can start to form. Having suffered with blockages and their associated odours over the ...
Read More »Don’t be complacent about hygiene in the post-COVID Era: The benefits of full facility disinfection across air, water, and surfaces
By Ken Kershner, Global Commercial Director, Nuvonic The world would like to forget COVID and return to normal like a pandemic never happened. And that’s understandable. But we should not overcompensate and forget that bacteria, fungi, and viruses of myriad ...
Read More »NEC Group announces ‘ground-breaking’ carbon savings through improved waste management practices
UK live events company, NEC Group, has announced its ground-breaking environmental achievement of carbon savings – the equivalent of 3,670 tree saplings breathing for the next decade. Working in partnership with international facilities service specialist OCS Group and sustainable waste ...
Read More »Business leaders call for colleagues to support APPG campaign
Businesspeople from the cleaning and hygiene sector have urged industry colleagues to get behind the British Cleaning Council-led lobbying campaign to make cleaning and hygiene a national priority. Dave Wheadon, CEO of BCC member the National Carpet Cleaners Association (NCCA), ...
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