The Planet Earth Cleaning Company - Green, Environmentally Friendly, Quality Cleaning

Toxicity

Most cleaning products include potentially harmful additives such as chlorines and sulfates. These chemical ingredients break down into harmful substances, which threaten our waterways, fish and other wildlife.

Planet Earth’s non-toxic product range doesn’t include chemicals like phosphates, sulphates, petroleum solvents or benzene detergent bases. They meet the Australian Standard AS1972, with 80% of the product biodegrading within 21days. As a result our environmental impact is greatly reduced.

Energy Use

Most electricity companies offer a ‘green power’ option at a slightly higher unit price. By electing to use a renewable energy source you minimise your organisation’s environmental impact.

Make a difference in your workplace by buying energy efficient fluorescent lighting and refrigerators and by making it staff policy to turn off appliances at the switch at the end of each day.

Water Use

Industry is responsible for the majority of water usage and all businesses need to make an effort to reduce their water consumption. There are many simple tips to help save this precious resource. For example

• If your toilet has a leak it probably loses half a litre of water every hour. This equates to 4,400 litres per year. Alternatively you could install dual flush toilets and waterless urinals.
• A tap leaking at the rate of one drop per second will waste more than 12,000 litres of water a year. Installing a regulator on all of your taps will save water and money.
• Dishwashers can use between 1.6 and 4.8 litres per cycle. Installing a water efficient dishwasher, and only doing a load when it is full, will save water.

Waste reduction

Industry is responsible for the majority of landfill. You can reduce the amount of waste your office produces by

• placing paper, glass and plastic items into recycling bins and have them collected by a recycling company
• managing your inventory office stock and buying in bulk to reduce packaging
• thinking about it before you print. Do you really need to print or can you store the information electronically?
• using the blank side of a document as scrap paper
• centralising your photocopier to one floor so your employees will think twice about printing unnecessarily.