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Green cleaning?! 🤔What's that?

 




Green cleaning is the term used to associate the conscious use of products, processes and procedures bearing in mind the environment and potential human entities that can be impacted.

Aspects of the environment that can be affected are water bodies, air molecules, plants and animals; Potential human entities range from the general to direct users of products. 

Green cleaning is perpetrated by users;  which is also the case when it is contrary, non-green cleaning. 

Therefore, let's look closely at the effects of the experiences that can be gotten from green cleaning or otherwise- to all consumers, users, applicators. 

When products that are made without placing cognisance to certain environmental or consumer protection regulations or standards, the process of diffusion (which takes gaseous molecules from a place of higher concentration to lower concentration ) plays a significant role. Thereby exposing the environment or human resources present. 

Due to such unfortunate/unprecedented exposure, the following are some of the effects of non-adherence or consciously pursuing Green cleaning 

1) Air quality is compromised as a result of the undue exposure. 

2) Water bodies and water organisms are at a receiving end detrimentally with a longterm effect on lovers of seafood/ water sports and the likes 

3) Exposure to chronic disease causing pollutants can argued to be heightened as a result of the use of certain products and/or processes or procedures. 

To manage the undue exposure to the aforementioned detrimental effects of not going Green all the way in cleaning, we would like to advise that you do the following proactive and reactive steps (Note: not exhaustive!) 

•    Go through your products safety data sheet or labels to be fully acquainted with the contents of the product.  If you see just scientific details, you can use Google or another search engiheto find the generic names and decide if it's safe or hazardous to use. Look out for more specific information such as Design for the Environment (DfE) or low or no volatile organic compounds (VOCs)


•    Use multi-purpose products whenever possible to reduce the multiplicity of exposure and manage impact. 

•    Reuse items like those old toothbrushes and plastic bottles [Click to read up on past blogs about toothbrush https://cleaningnmore.blogspot.com/2020/07/toothbrushes-small-but-mighty.html   and plastic recycling  https://cleaningnmore.blogspot.com/2022/02/beyond-cleaning-to-next-best-thing.html
https://cleaningnmore.blogspot.com/2022/03/so-what-do-we-recycle_16.html
 https://cleaningnmore.blogspot.com/2022/04/the-bane-of-plastic-pollution.html

•    Invest in organic products like baking soda, vinegar, hotwater. 

•    Upcycle waste paper and magazines instead of straight trashing. 

•    Invest generally in non-phosphate, non-chlorine, non-artificially fragranced or coloured products 

•    As an alternative to spraying chemical fumigants, use plants to get rid of pests. 

•    Make use of personal safety protective equipments as unsparingly as possible. Thankfully, COVID19 has given us the awareness of their effectiveness. 

Green cleaning has benefits for the entire earth realm. It may be argued to be more tasking to apply consistently yet on the longrun, it's better we choose our hard and pursue healthier options for us and our entire ecosystem. 

Please note: The notion of green cleaning further posits and perpetrates the noble Sustainable Development Goals- specifically SDGs 3, 6, 12, 14 and 15)






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