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UK Floor Cleaning Forum => Carpet Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: kinder clean on November 01, 2008, 04:58:12 pm

Title: Green Cleaning, how to be even greener
Post by: kinder clean on November 01, 2008, 04:58:12 pm
Ok appart from selling your company on the safer, non toxic, envviromentally friendly cleaning chemicals, what else can your company do to be even more green, for example - Healthier, using recycled paper or offering paperless e-mail invoicing -

Post your answers should help us all sell the whole greener package.

Paul Kinder Clean
Title: Re: Green Cleaning, how to be even greener
Post by: Straker Cleaning on November 01, 2008, 05:34:38 pm
Adding veg oil to fuel = Biodiesel
Sending estimates by email = paper saving
Found new printer to do recycled paper business cards

........and best for selling green business is an award or two (4 now actually)......... worth their weight in PLATINUM  ;D


ps ......... got stickers if you try biodiesel ...........MANY brownie points  ;)


pps ....... deja vu  :o
Title: Re: Green Cleaning, how to be even greener
Post by: derek west on November 01, 2008, 07:49:51 pm
you could turn up on a push bike,  ;D
now thats proper eco.
derek
Title: Re: Green Cleaning, how to be even greener
Post by: clinton on November 01, 2008, 08:48:10 pm
 :D :D
Title: Re: Green Cleaning, how to be even greener
Post by: craigp on November 01, 2008, 09:13:27 pm
I can see the award being a great selling point, but how? did they find you?

Craig
Title: Re: Green Cleaning, how to be even greener
Post by: Straker Cleaning on November 03, 2008, 10:17:44 pm
Many local papers/councils run green awards ............ customer nominates you, they judge a winner ( One win, two Highly Commended and a Commended so far ).

People search web for green or eco cleaning and links from newspaper/council list winners and even nominees ........... my website now has Google page rank of 4/10 ............. trusted page with links in from trusted sites now!! Links from untrusted sites not worth a great deal so need to be from established sites like newspaper/councils etc.

How green is that ..........advertising without using paper  ::)
Title: Re: Green Cleaning, how to be even greener
Post by: Shaun_Ashmore on November 03, 2008, 10:20:32 pm
You'll be telling us next you wipe your arse with out paper!

Shaun
Title: Re: Green Cleaning, how to be even greener
Post by: Mike Osbourne on November 03, 2008, 10:22:51 pm
He can wipe his arse with one sheet of paper.

Don't ask. :-X
Title: Re: Green Cleaning, how to be even greener
Post by: Shaun_Ashmore on November 03, 2008, 10:44:36 pm
Eco toilet paper

1. Get 1 piece of towel paper (preferably tough paper you used to get at school)
2. Fold into half and then quarters
3. Where the main corner is ( the toughest fold) tear the corner off in a straight line
4. Keep this left over piece for later
5. Open toilet paper up
6. stick finger through hole in paper
7. Wipe behind
BEST BIT
8. Use small piece of paper to get poo from under neath your nail out.

Can be re-used

Shaun
Title: Re: Green Cleaning, how to be even greener
Post by: craigp on November 04, 2008, 10:05:41 pm
Many local papers/councils run green awards ............ customer nominates you, they judge a winner ( One win, two Highly Commended and a Commended so far ).

People search web for green or eco cleaning and links from newspaper/council list winners and even nominees ........... my website now has Google page rank of 4/10 ............. trusted page with links in from trusted sites now!! Links from untrusted sites not worth a great deal so need to be from established sites like newspaper/councils etc.

How green is that ..........advertising without using paper  ::)

Chris, Thanks for the reply, just need to go green and ask a customer to nominate me now then ;) ;D
Title: Re: Green Cleaning, how to be even greener
Post by: spencer davies on November 04, 2008, 10:27:58 pm
I have got a mate of mine that was in the Navy, when going to sea, they were encouraged to use as little
toilet roll as possible due to storage and weight, they were all issued three pieces of toilet paper on each visit.

1. One piece for upward swipe

2. One piece for downward swipe

3. One piece to polish. 

 :-*






S
Title: Re: Green Cleaning, how to be even greener
Post by: Mike Osbourne on November 04, 2008, 10:34:50 pm
Navy boys even use their socks twice in one day  ;)
Title: Re: Green Cleaning, how to be even greener
Post by: darrenbale on November 04, 2008, 11:29:08 pm
Eco toilet paper

1. Get 1 piece of towel paper (preferably tough paper you used to get at school)
2. Fold into half and then quarters
3. Where the main corner is ( the toughest fold) tear the corner off in a straight line
4. Keep this left over piece for later
5. Open toilet paper up
6. stick finger through hole in paper
7. Wipe behind
BEST BIT
8. Use small piece of paper to get poo from under neath your nail out.

Can be re-used

Shaun

You weren't army were you?
My ds used to say this at the start of every exercise.
Title: Re: Green Cleaning, how to be even greener
Post by: Straker Cleaning on November 05, 2008, 06:38:49 am
RMP were taught the same until last part .........replace that with 'feel collar of errant squaddie to remove bits from beneath nails'  ;D

Nice quick way to wipe off on someone else  :P