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Turning water
into bleach
Column
Julia Charles-Wiginton wants to clear
the air on an important matter
id you know that water
can be a more effective
cleaning agent than
bleach? Now I’ve caught
your attention, I will explain. Many
venues are adopting products and
practices that make them greener,
and one area for consideration is the
cleaning products they use and to
ensure that they are as harmless to
the environment as possible. A
venue’s choice of cleaning products
may not sound sexy to an organiser,
but conference spaces have to be
clean and the products used will
impact on a venue’s sustainability
credentials. The Meetings Industry
Association (mia) has called for
event buyers to ask about a venue’s
overall sustainability credentials on
an RFP but a venue cannot claim to
be sustainable if it is pouring nasty
chemicals into their drains every day
and therefore into the water supply.
I have found Tersano – it’s an
amazing machine that turns cold
water into a solution called
Stabilised Aqueous Ozone (SAO) by
simply charging the water with
another oxygen molecule. The SAO
solution is still as harmless as water
to us, but it is deadlier than bleach
when it comes to tackling bacteria,
germs and dirt.
The SAO solution can be used in
all cleaning processes – from
mopping the floors, to cleaning
bathrooms, tables, kitchens and
even mirrors and glass. But then
after 24 hours the SAO solution
turns back into normal water and
oxygen and can be safely tipped
down the drain with no concern for
pollution.
The SAO solution is created on
Imagine a
venue cleaning
team just using
one simple
cleaning
product, with
no to-ing and
fro-ing back
and forth to the
cleaning trolley
to change
products.
site by a machine installed in the
venue, so once the machine is
delivered and installed; a venue can
create their own cleaning solution
daily – without the need to order and
re-order cleaning products and the
carbon footprint that a regular
delivery creates. The spray bottles
are reused and filled up each day on
site, saving plastic waste too.
I really liked it for its environmental
impact, but there are cost saving
benefits too; imagine a venue
cleaning team just using one simple
cleaning product for all their cleaning
jobs, with no to-ing and fro-ing back
and forth to the cleaning trolley to
change products they save time.
Below:
Julia Charles-
Wiginton,
MD, Julia
Charles Event
Management
www.conference-news.co.uk
Even a saving of just a few minutes a
room adds up - a 100-bedroom
venue would save around five hours
a day. And whilst I don’t know what
the average venue spends on
cleaning products, I’m sure it’s not a
small sum so the cost of the
machine and the (recyclable) filters
offers cost savings too.
I love the idea of this and I’d love
to see a conference venue adopt it.
It’s being used in a couple of hotel
chains in the UK, but if your venue is
interested in giving it a go, do get in
touch with me via our website
(JuliaCharlesEventManagement.
co.uk) and I will arrange a trial for
you.