Sustainable Practices - Departments

January 2013 Featured Deparment:  Facilities Management and Planning

FMP Main | Custodial Services | Grounds | Planning | Trades | Transportation 

Custodial Services

Water conserving floor extractor.

Lane's Custodial Services does whatever they can to reduce the amount and the toxicity of the products they use.  Here are a few examples of Housekeeping's sustainability achievements:

• Use Sustainable Earth Cleaning products that are Green Seal Certified.
• Soap in bathroom dispensers is Green Seal certified and is a foam-style that reduces reduces packaging seven times over liquid soap.
• Microfiber rags and dust mops trap dirt and germs without the need to use chemicals.
• Carpet cleaning equipment uses 50%  less water and chemicals than most other brands.

Custodial services is concerned with more than just the environmental aspect of sustainability, the social aspect is incorporated into the unit with a focus on keeping the custodians safe and injury free.  There are regular safety trainings in Custodial services and at the time of this writing, they have been incident free for over 100 days.