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The Textile Services Association (TSA) has joined the British Cleaning Council (BCC) as an associate member. The TSA is the trade association for the textile care services industry, which contributes over £1.3 billion in GVA and supports some 28,000 jobs ...

International PPE firm, Globus Group, has created an innovative sustainable solution for personal protective equipment waste by recycling off-cuts from mask production into cleaning materials for hospitals. The company, the biggest British PPE manufacturer, is already keeping hundreds of thousands ...

Rubbermaid Commercial Products (RCP) has issued a manifesto extending the scope of its award-winning Love Recycling initiative. The new manifesto details how RCP will continue to support businesses that want to improve their commercial recycling and waste management practices. The ...

Colleagues from Mitie’s cleaning team based at Heathrow’s Terminal 5 will be featured in an upcoming episode of the ITV documentary series, Heathrow: Britain’s Busiest Airport. Airing on Wednesday 17 March at 8pm, the episode will mark Mitie’s first appearance ...

In a recent poll of cleaning professionals, only two per cent ranked vacuuming as ‘important’, yet vacuuming takes about 25 per cent of a cleaner’s time. Automated vacuuming cost less, cleans better, saves energy and frees up skilled cleaning teams ...

Brayborne Facilities Services is to continue providing cleaning services to City College Southampton for a further two-year term without retender. City College is a general further education facility providing career-led courses, apprenticeships and education for young people and adults. Located ...

Julia Argles, who had served for many years as Swiftclean Service Delivery Director, has decided to retire from the company. She is also relinquishing any commercial interest; her shares being purchased by the company. Gary Nicholls, Managing Director and founder ...

More than half (53 per cent) of Britons believe UK businesses could be doing more to improve the hygiene of their premises and keep people safe from Covid-19, according to a new survey. Commissioned by hygiene and pest control technology ...

The British Cleaning Council (BCC) has expanded on its major initiative to achieve ‘key and essential worker’ status for employees in the cleaning and hygiene sector. BCC Chairman Paul Thrupp said: “As everyone is now aware, the BCC has been ...

Schools and businesses reopening can check their cleaning standards with the NHS Deep Cleaning and Advisory Service For the first time in England, domestic cleaning in public spaces has been standardised with an official protocol developed within the NHS in response ...