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With a new Covid-19 variant on the rise, the British Cleaning Council (BCC) has written to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to call for cleaning and hygiene to be made a national priority. In her letter, BCC Chair Delia Cannings called ...

Plastic and litter has been removed by offenders wearing high-visibility jackets emblazoned with ‘Community Payback’ on beaches up-and-down the country, as part of the Marine Conservation Society’s annual Great British Beach Clean, which took place last week. The Probation Service ...

Metsä Tissue has chosen Goole, East Riding of Yorkshire as the site for its planned new state-of-the-art tissue paper mill in the UK. This landmark investment of several hundreds of millions of pounds will deliver the largest tissue mill in ...

The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) and Initial Washroom Hygiene (Initial) will now offer to all grassroots clubs with girls’ sections across England and Wales. The roll-out is a nationwide extension of the pilot programme that has been run ...

The Cleaning & Hygiene Suppliers Association’s (CHSA) new Fact Sheet offers its members and others in the industry valuable guidance on the challenge of assessing the environmental impact of a product over its full life cycle. A full life cycle ...

SmileLux bought its first Truvox International floorcare machine in 2018 for ground floor use and has recently taken delivery of the new Multiwash™ PRO 240, as the business has now also expanded upstairs. Milton Keynes-based SmileLux is a multi-award-winning Specialist ...

The cleaning and FM industry event of the year – the Kimberly-Clark Professional Golden Service Awards – are now open for your entries until 27 October. For over 30 years, these awards have provided outstanding golden opportunities for cleaning companies, ...

Simply Washrooms (Simply), the UK-based workplace and washroom hygiene service provider, has been certified as a B Corporation (B Corp), joining a growing group of companies reinventing business by pursuing purpose as well as profit. Simply has also published its ...

Employers and anyone else interested in finding out more about the new Cleaning Hygiene Operative Apprenticeship are being urged to sign up for one of a series of Zoom information sessions starting in October. The Cleaning Hygiene Operative Apprenticeship (Level ...

Jangro, the largest network of independent janitorial distributors in the UK and Ireland, is celebrating its third consecutive year of being Planet Mark certified, strengthening its commitment to reduce its carbon footprint. Planet Mark is a sustainability certification that verifies ...