With so much talk lately of "green cleaning", especially in the commercial building maintenance trade, are any of the releasit products considered "green"? I know this will be an issue that will eventually affect our industry...

Thanks!!

Joe

PS Subscribe to "building operating management" magazine, and you will see a lot of "green" talk pertaining to the construction and maintenance of office buildings...

We have not yet submitted Releasit for "green" certification testing. Releasit Encap-Clean and Encap-Clean DS are SAFE though. In fact the only ingredient that even requires listing on the MSDS sheet is isopropyl alcohol. All of our ingredients are about as safe as ingredients you'd typically find in the grooming products in your bathroom --- 'ammonium laurel sulfate' is in hair shampoo, 'polymer' is in hairspray, and 'isopropyl alcohol' is in your mouthwash. The wave to go green in the cleaning industry is a great idea. Our product is already a very user friendly and earth friendly product to begin with. If this truly becomes a big enough issue we will go ahead and make the financial investment to get our product tested for the "green" certification.




Rick Gelinas
encapman

Let's look at one more ecological impact that carpet cleaning has on the environment.

Hot water extraction cleaning can easily consume and discard over 100 gallons of fresh water per hour. What does that mean for the environment? That means that we're taking 100 gallons of fresh clean water, treating it with chemicals, loading it with soil, and discharging it as waste water. The water is no longer clean water, it's now contaminated and becomes sewage.

On the other hand, with our encap method - we're cleaning 300 sq ft of carpet with a single gallon of water. And there is no waste water discharged. The recovered soil ends up in the vacuum cleaner bag and goes off to the landfill. Minimal water usage, and no dirty water discharge... the encap/shampoo method presents the least environmental impact of any carpet cleaning method I'm aware of.




Rick Gelinas
encapman

I like that.

Explaining it like that to some people with tunnel vision, can change a whole perspective.

Especially on the world's second driest continent.

Thanks Rick.

Cheers,

Shorty.

Good stuff, Rick! I just wanted to be aware of these things in case I'm ever asked if my cleaning is "green"..

Thanks again!

Joe