Is Green Disinfecting a Real Thing?

The hard health truth in cleaning…

full transcript below.

Green cleaning is real. Green disinfecting is not real.

Well at least not yet. Not to the level that we would be able to fight off dangerous diseases and viruses in mass. As we can see in the interaction between Derrick and Ralph as Ralph brings up the fact the Gco commercial cleaning does have a green cleaning focus. Which is accurate. However Derrick explains that his company has obviously had to make an adjustment and pivot to include chemicals that may not be considered “green” because of the ongoing pandemic and new normal we are living in today.

Of course we may not want to inhale or ingest any harmful cleaning chemicals, but that doesn’t mean they don’t serve a purpose or that they can’t be used for good to help us. As long as we use these chemicals and techniques properly they are extremely effective in protecting us and disinfecting our spaces. This is why the EPA regulates the sale and use of all disinfectants. Simply follow the instructions on the labels for use and you should be perfectly fine.

Original Transcript from the show:

Ralph Peterson 00:52

and it looks like you've got quite a great story you know, you're over there. In Seattle, you're still in Seattle, right? Yes, sir. And you guys are all focused on green cleaning. Which is that not accurate?

Derrick Grim 01:10

So it it is it is accurate we do have a green cleaning focus but as you know, nowadays it with you know, I'm not exactly sure which words are a trigger words on online. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, you know, it's funny. Okay. But uh, but yeah, it's uh, we've had you know, we've had obviously you know, make some make some adjustments into some pivoting this this season. So

Ralph Peterson 01:36

1,000,000% it's a it's a it's a weird thing, because there is, green cleaning is a real thing. There's a real there's a lot of real natural clean errs out there. There's a lot of really environmentally friendly cleaner, not only cleaners, but also techniques, you know, the capital you're using, but it's about techniques, but the thing that I work in healthcare, and the number one thing you learn when you start cleaning and healthcare is there is no such thing as a green disinfected as

Derrick Grim 02:09

a green disinfect, and that's very,

Ralph Peterson 02:12

it's just,

Derrick Grim 02:14

I was gonna say, if it does exist, I have no idea about it.

Ralph Peterson 02:17

yeah, I think the closest thing and this is and this is the opposite of the closest thing, but the closest thing I can think of is like hydrogen peroxide, which is

Derrick Grim 02:25

necessarily as green as you'd like. No, I'm just saying we've also had a history with that particular chemical in the in the cleaning industry. So yeah, we know that goes.