What can be recycled, is — currently running at around half of everything collected across our sites, tracked and monitored, not estimated. What can't be recycled gets responsibly incinerated instead of buried. It's not a headline-grabbing initiative; it's a waste contract with a partner who also calculates and offsets their own carbon footprint every month, and who plans routes efficiently enough to cut down the mileage — and emissions — of getting from job to job in the first place.
The same thinking runs through what we buy, not just what we throw away. Our janitorial suppliers are chosen partly on the strength of their own environmental record —one plants trees to offset delivery emissions; our sanitary waste partner is carbon neutral and plants a tree for every new site it takes on.
None of this is dramatic. It's not meant to be. Good environmental practice, like good cleaning, tends to be most convincing when nobody has to think about it at all
"Sustainability" gets used to describe almost anything these days, most of it more branding than practice. So here's a less exciting but more honest way to put it: nothing we clear from our clients' buildings goes to landfill. Not some of it. None of it.
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Most people never meet the team who keeps their office spotless. They arrive after everyone's gone home, or before anyone's arrived, and by the time the building fills up, the evidence of their work is everywhere and they are nowhere. That's sort of the job description.
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There's a version of "office cleaning" that lives entirely on the surface —tidy desks, empty bins. That's real, and it matters. But there's a quieter layer underneath that almost nobody talks about: the actual link between a well-kept space and how people feel showing up to it every day.
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It's tempting to treat commercial cleaning like toilet roll — grab whichever one's cheapest, tick the box, move on with your life. The problem is commodities are, by definition, interchangeable. Cleaning companies very much are not, no matter what the identical-looking quotes suggest.
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