News Release - For Immediate Publication

With the growing demand for Green services, it may be difficult to discover which service is truly Green or actually a Green Pretender. Green Clean Institute Certified^® is one sure way to know that you are working with a trained and certified company.

Jones Cleaning Service of Champaign is one of the most recent companies to earn their certification as a certified Green janitorial firm. This means that a cleaning service does more than place a few Green cleaning products on their carts. Green Clean Institute Certified firms understand the necessary practices of Green cleaning. The confusion comes from the constant promotion of products as the only solution. Green does not simply come in a bottle. Green is a practice.

Knowing how to Green a building is as important as what products are being used. Training and certification means that a company provides more than a token effort in Green building operation. A janitorial firm should understand the impact of Indoor Air Quality (IAQ), dwell time of Green products, product innovation, bioaccumulation, and assist in the installing of simple practices that have a major impact on the health quotient of a building.

As a Green Clean Institute Certified^® cleaning service, (Company Name) can assist commercial buildings in earning their GCI Green Building certification which is an important contribution to a Greener business and a Greener world. Green buildings are an important the health of everyday workers since EPA studies have shown that Americans spend 90% of their time indoors. The same study indicates that indoor air quality can be 2 to 5 times worse than the outdoor air with its standard pollution.

Issues such as Sick Building Syndrome and Building Related Illness stem from the Indoor Air Quality of our buildings, and no service is as critical to this factor as your cleaning service. Many cleaning chemicals contain Volatile Organic Compounds (VOC) which create acute and chronic illnesses. Workers and students with allergies, asthma, and chemical sensitivities are the first to suffer from these invisible fumes in office air. Just like the issue of second hand smoke, cleaning chemicals are now understood to be a serious issue in the health quality of any building.

Green cleaning is a return to a safe and sane approach to cleaning. The people who bring the Green to any office are the cleaning crews who often go unnoticed but do a generally cleaning each night. Most companies do not carry a full line of Green products or know how Green happens in an office. Green Clean Institute is an independent national training organization that deals only with corporate Greening projects. Therefore, Green Clean Institute is proud to announce the certification and accomplishments of its latest graduate, Jones Cleaning Service of Champaign.

Green Clean Institute
R. Michael Richmond, Director
www.GreenCleanInstitue.com

(815) 609-4546

Green Statistics

Nearly 3.5 million cleaning employees are exposed to chemicals and other materials while cleaning buildings.

Each year, 6 billion pounds of chemicals are used to clean commercial buildings.

The commercial cleaning industry consumes approximately 4.5 billion pounds of janitorial paper products, which requires the cutting of an estimated 25 to 50 million trees.

People spend 90 percent of their time indoors each day.

Green strategies have the potential to achieve a 40 percent reduction in water use by office buildings.

Stats available from: The Ashkin Group, U.S. Green Building Council, McGraw-Hill and the Building Owners and Managers Association