What is the most overlooked product in the Canadian Sanitation industry?

Toilet seat covers?????
How can toilet seat covers make a difference in your facility?
Toilet seat covers will accomplish two things.

#1 They will cut down toilet paper consumption. How? The average washroom user will use 13 feet of toilet tissue to protect themselves on a toilet seat.

#2 They will make your facility look better. How? The small pieces of toilet tissue that are left on the ground after patrons visit your public restroom will not be there!
All things considered ….

You will provide your guests with a more sanitary environment.

You will save money on toilet tissue. At an average cost of 1.8 cents per toilet seat cover. You will save 4.5 cents per patron on toilet tissue.

The environment will experience a great deal less abuse. Less paper will make it’s way into municipal water treatment.

Our suggestion is:
Buy one starter pack of toilet seat covers with a free dispenser. See the results for yourself. We know you will see very quickly why toilet seat covers are so common in other parts of the world.

H1N1 Reality is here. Pandemic Declared! How do I deal with it?

Stay home when you are sick: Those with flu-like illness should stay home for at least 24 hours after they no longer have a fever, or signs of a fever, without the use of fever-reducing medicines. Stay home when you are sick.

2. Staff who appear to have flu-like illness should be sent to a room separate from others until they can be sent home. CDC recommends that they wear a surgical mask, if possible, and that those who care for ill students and staff wear protective gear such as a mask.

3. Hand hygiene and respiratory etiquette: The new recommendations emphasize the importance of the basic foundations of influenza prevention: stay home when sick, wash hands frequently with soap and water when possible, and cover noses and mouths with a tissue when coughing or sneezing (or a shirt sleeve or elbow if no tissue is available).

4. Routine cleaning: Staff should routinely clean areas that students and staff touch often with the cleaners they typically use. Special cleaning with bleach and other non-detergent-based cleaners is not necessary.

5. Early treatment of high-risk students and staff: People at high risk for influenza complications who become ill with influenza-like illness should speak with their health care provider as soon as possible.
Consideration of selective closurel: Although there are not many businesses where all or most staff are at high risk (for example, schools for medically fragile children or for pregnant students) a community might decide to dismiss such a school to better protect these high-risk students.

Simple Steps to protect yourself, co-workers and your family.

Have infection control plans in place.
Have plenty of instant sanitizer avail able.
Have disinfectant wipes, disinfectant, safety glasses, gloves and masks available.
Wipes: Clorox or Virox Wipes
Masks: N95 or N98 masks.
Instant Sanitizer: Alcohol Based is preferred.
Disinfectants must have an Influenza A claim to be considered effective

The Custodial Closet

Custodial managers should pay close attention to the custodial closets within the facility. Cleanliness, storage options, layout and supplies all play a significant role in the effectiveness of the cleaning crew.

Watch for:
1. Multiples of the same product Are managers purchasing too much?
2. Varying brands of the same product This may cause confusion among cleaners.
3. Cleanliness Messy and unorganized closets become a safety issue and can take workers longer to organize materials necessary for cleaning tasks.
4. Equipment quality –Cleaning will not be effective if the equipment that is used is dirty itself. Overfull vacuums emit dust back into the air, dirty cloths spread bacteria and can leave a film on surfaces, torn squeegees leave streaks, etc.
5. Product information – Post MSDS and other safety/training materials in each cleaning closet so it can be accessed by staff.
6. Consistency – Make sure each cleaning closet within the facility is laid out the same. Doing so creates consistency for staff.

Oxo-Degradeable Plastic- What is the real truth?

When it comes to discarding waste, we are becoming more aware of the hazards and negative impacts of traditional means of disposal with each passing day-namely, plastic garbage bags. The best attributes of plastic – tensile strength and durability have also become its downfall. Quite simply, traditional plastic garbage bags, due to their long lifespan in landfills, have created more litter. As a result, plastic as we know it has needed to evolve, and it has in the form of Oxo-biodegradable Plastic. This minor alteration of traditional plastic has been developed to create a plastic product having the property of high tensile strength yet at the same time have the means to degrade to simple, safe organic materials when its time of utility is over.

Oxo-biodegradable technology produces a plastic product with equivalent performance characteristics as its conventional counterpart, is extremely cost competitive, and allows for programmable degradation. This results in a product that will totally and harmlessly disintegrate in multiple environments, commencing at a predetermined time such as from 6 months to 5 years. By comparison, traditional plastic garbage bags may remain in landfills for upwards of 50 years!
Reverte™ is an example of a product line of resin additives producing a controlled and safe oxo-biodegradable effect to standard polyethylene and polypropylene products. Reverte™ causes plastic to oxo-biodegrade until it becomes only CO2, H20 and biomass. It does not leave fragments of petro-polymers in the soil and the additional product cost is minimal, since only a small amount of additive is required (generally 1%) and existing manufacturing equipment and processes are used without modification. Furthermore, Oxo-biodegradable garbage bags provide the following advantages vs. Traditional:

-Programmable and controlled degradation
-Avoids the emission of methane
-Fully compatible with our recycled raw materials
-Degrades in any environment
-Requires no fertilizers, pesticides or water
-Won't hurt forestland and reduce biodiversity

As you know, at Corporate Chemicals and Equipment, we take great pride in being at the forefront of the Environmentally Preferable Products Movement, and we will continue to educate and encourage our clients to make responsible choices whenever they are available. We appreciate your openness to what we have to offer and we hope you will consider choosing Oxo-Biodegradable Garbage Bags for your business needs. To those of you who have already made the switch-thank you.

Want to arrange a trial of Oxo-biodegradable Plastic Bags for your facility? Please speak with a Corporate Chemicals Team Member right away to get started.