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The festival washroom

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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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ECB and Initial team up to support period dignity in recreational cricket

The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) and Initial Washroom Hygiene (Initial) have announced a strategic partnership, designed to bring period dignity to grassroots cricket. Central to this new partnership, is a shared ambition to ensure that menstruation is not ...

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Tork brand offers a range of carbon neutral certified dispensers

Essity’s Tork brand is the first in Europe to reduce and compensate carbon emissions for the entire life cycle of selected soap, toilet paper and hand towel dispensers. The Tork brand now offers carbon neutral certification on a range of ...

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Saracens promotes period dignity with Rentokil Initial

Saracens Rugby Club and Rentokil Initial are continuing to champion period dignity in sports, with the installation of In Cubicle Period Dignity Dispensers in the hospitality and guest washrooms at StoneX Stadium. These dispensers provide free and discreet access to ...

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Sporting chance: Citron Hygiene and Aunt Flow donate 73,000 period products to keep girls off the sidelines

As Citizens Advice reports that 2023 was the “bleakest ever” start to a year, Citron Hygiene has launched a new initiative to help tackle period poverty. The provider of washroom hygiene services will donate 73,000 Aunt Flow pads and tampons to the national children’s charity, the Youth ...

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MPs and campaigners call for an end to period poverty in the UK

A coalition of politicians, campaigners, and NGOs have called on the UK Government to tackle period poverty in an open letter. The letter was signed by more than 50 signatories including cross-party Members of Parliament (MPs). It included demands for free period ...

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Spectrum adds Harvey Nichols to its portfolio

One of the UK’s best-known department store chains, Harvey Nichols, has appointed Spectrum Service Solutions to work with them at its store in Edinburgh. Spectrum will provide cleaning, hygiene and sanitary, consumables and window cleaning services at the store and ...

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GOJO launches ‘Journey to Green’

Skin and surface hygiene specialist, GOJO Industries-Europe is proud to launch ‘Journey to Green’. This manifesto sets out specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound (SMART) objectives aimed at saving the planet, by creating real sustainable value, underpinned by four core ...

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