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Green Cleaning Products and Practices (In Progress)

Recent Project Updates

  • 1/4/2024
    Soap waste is especially prevalent on large campuses and facilities that experience high day-to-day foot traffic. Through North American, UIUC's custodial product vendor, the university is transitioning to Ecolab's soap concentrate. This allows soap...
  • 9/5/2023
        Before the start of the fall semester, the F&S Building Services department launched a new Specialist Cleaning Program in five high-usage campus facilities. Almost 40 BSWs underwent professional development and received...

Key Objective

Description

The iCAP 2020 objective 5.7 is to "Establish a green cleaning program that meets LEED v.4 requirements by FY24." The responsible campus unit for championing this objective is F&S.

The Student Sustainability Committee Provided Funding for the purchase and testing the Activeion Ionator EXP Cleaning System, a cleaning system that reduces water usage by using no water to mix chemicals and still effectively kills more than 99.9 percent of harmful germs. The Activeion Ionator Systems also element chemical odor and residue caused by other cleaning systems. Initially, Facilities and Services Building Services will purchase 20 units to evaluate in daily cleaning operations in buildings the University campus.  If these units prove to be successful, Building Services would purchase 100 to 150 more units in 2011-2012 to expand the use of this system in cleaning university buildings.

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Dates

  • Proposed November 17, 2010
    Approved December 23, 2010

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