Benefits of Green Cleaning                  

Healthy businesses are strong businesses.

Recent studies have shown that sustainable buildings, or buildings that go green, have measurable financial gains due to employee health, productivity, and retention as well as lower operating costs and certain government incentives. And, as more and more businesses benefit from green cleaning, their individual impact grows exponentially to reach a global scale.

Research has shown that facilities that switch to green cleaning have:

Healthier employees—your business at its best.

Companies are vastly underutilizing their human assets and underestimating the benefits of switching to green cleaning. With the same effectiveness as traditional cleaning, and little or no cost increase, the return on investment for switching to green cleaning can be immense. Get the most out of your business by keeping your employees at their healthiest.

The big picture: positive environmental impact.

In addition to the immediate and direct human benefits of switching to green cleaning, the long-term relief for our environment is vast.

In the United States, commercial buildings consume 17% of the water, 33% of the energy, 40% of the raw materials and 71% of the electricity. They produce, directly or indirectly, 40% of the landfill waste, 33% of the carbon dioxide, 49% of the sulfur dioxide and 10% of the particulate emissions.

When each of us takes on the responsibility of switching to green cleaning and other green building practices, together we can make an enormous improvement to our overall environment.

Why Is It Easy to GoGreen?          

Environmental stewardship—it’s one of our core principles!

Because ServiceMaster Clean is dedicated to environmental stewardship, we have spent years developing our propietary green cleaning technologies and methods. And ServiceMaster Clean Green For™ products are audited and certified green by four independent leading auditors: Envirodesic™, Environmental Choice, Green Seal, and Eco-label.

ServiceMaster Clean—innovative leader

We are still constantly innovating, finding new ways to improve cleaning methods and discovering ways to benefit your business and your employees. ServiceMaster Clean now offers our proprietary, patent pending capture and removal cleaning system that reduces particulate emissions dramatically. Where other cleaning systems simply swirl and circulate dust back into the workplace, we actually remove it, leaving your air quality and working conditions improved.

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