Big change this week at The Grove, we signed up with Cintas ! We have used the old fashioned kennel cleaning system of Pine sol and Bleach (safely diluted of course) for the last 17 years!
Last July, I attended the American Veterinary Medical Association conference in Seattle and attended a seminar about the use of disinfectants and an overview of new delivery systems. After searching and considering numerous systems we decided on the Cintas System. This system dispenses pre-measured, diluted hospital grade, 100% environmentally friendly product directly into the mop bucket or spray bottle. No more measuring and no more plastic jugs of bleach and pine sol to throw into the landfill !
Along with this system we signed up for their weekly mop exchange! Each week they take our old mop head and give us a new one, the old mop heads are laundered and recycled. Previously we bought new mop heads each month and threw our old ones away.
We also added the weekly towel service, I must admit I have a serious paper towel dependency. I love paper towels and we were using about a case of papertowels a month in the kennel ;(
The smaller stack of towels on the right are simple linen towels, which are meant to use for cleaning glass, wiping counters and replacing many of the things we do with paper towels. The towel service includes weekly pick up and replacement of all towels, which are laundered by Cintas and re-used.
We took down all our standard, save one in the restroom, paper towel racks which was alittle scary to me, and installed 3 commercial bio degradeable paper towel dispensers. We went from 6 paper towel racks to 3 !
I am proud of us for making this switch, we will now avoid throwing away at least a dozen plastic jugs a month, 2 mop heads a month and decrease our paper towel use by hopefully 80% !
Besides decreasing our contribution to the landfill, most importantly this system of disinfection is more effective, safer for the animals then the old fashioned bleach and pine sol.
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