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Building Service Contractor Reduces Training Time, Gets Ahead of Green...

Managing training time and turnover can be difficult in a building service contractor. In fact, the average turnover rate for a BSC is over 70%...

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New Marketing Upgrades Bring More Information to Customers

Have you seen our new literature or training videos yet? Along with updating our website, we've been hard at work updating our marketing material...

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EnvirOx Announces Launch of Newly Redesigned Website

We are excited to announce the launch of our newly redesigned, mobile-responsive website. Now, more than ever, users have easy access to all things En...

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Stop the Spread of Flu Season Germs

It's that time of year again - cold and flu season. Slowing the spread of germs and avoiding sickness is a daily goal, especially in schools and ...

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Facilities Supervisor Solves Longtime Cleaning Challenges While Cuttin...

Achieving successful cleaning results throughout facilities can be a difficult task, especially when cleaning products fall short of expectations time...

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Need a simple, effective way to clean ice melt residue? We have the so...

It happens every year with the icy weather- you put salt down to keep your visitors safe, but then you're left dealing with a grimy, sticky ice m...

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Clean Up Your Closets

8 Signs Your Cleaning System is Costing You Extra Money

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How to Write Bid Specifications for Anything

Writing bid specs can be stressful- often, facility managers get stuck in the process while searching for the best products and equipment for their de...

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The Toxic Truth About School Cleaning Supplies

The jury is in: Many of the cleaning chemicals found in schools across the country are a health hazard. Half of the 60 million+ students and staff...

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A Customer Story The First Month

I recently had a chance to speak to a few of our customers who had just switched to EnvirOx products. Meet Brian, Director of Building & Grounds and M...

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Easy Steps to Green, Sustainable Procurement

You may not realize it, but there's one surprising part of your staff that makes a huge contribution to the green-ness of your venue. It's y...

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Sell Your School on the Benefits of Green Cleaning

So, you've done the research into the benefits of green cleaning products. Maybe you've even received a cost comparison that shows you can a...

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Does Your School Follow Local Green Cleaning Laws?

Does your state have any green cleaning laws for schools in your area? If you're not sure, you're not alone. Many school Facility Directors ...

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EnvirOx Employees Get to Play Santa for Area Children

This time of year is full of meaning for so many. For EnvirOx, it's an opportunity to give back to the community that's been such a great su...

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Have New Cleaning Staff? Avoid These Top 5 Cleaning Mistakes

o inexperienced new staff, it might seem like a good idea to combine different cleaning products to get the benefits of each of them in one go. Howeve...

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Introducing the Absolute Cleaning System

EnvirOx is excited to announce the addition of the Absolute Cleaning System to our product lineup. The Absolute Cleaning System was created to m...

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Choose The Best Cleaning Products For Your Commercial Cleaning Service

Choosing what cleaning products you want to use for your commercial cleaning service can be a little overwhelming. Are you a building service contract...

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How to Help Prevent Getting The Flu When You're Cleaning

This flu season has been particularly brutal, with over twice as many deaths from flu-related illnesses as compared to the previous year-at a rate of ...

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Winter Cleaning: Avoid The Toxic Trap

Using the wrong products means you could be contributing to the problem.

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Orange Oil & Cleaning: A Powerful Combination

You might have heard about orange oil in a lot of different contexts. As an essential oil, if you search the internet for more information about it yo...

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Want Better Students? Keep Their Air Clean.

Schools around the country are always looking for ways to improve the performance of their students. Not only do they want to do the best job they can...

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Fight The Flu

The Best Defense is a Good Offense

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Cleaning How To: Training Videos From EnvirOx

Video is an incredible learning tool. With over 100 hours of content being uploaded to YouTube every minute to people in over 61 countries, more and m...

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Why You Should Sanitize Around Your Toilet Every Time

One of the chief concerns when performing regular restroom maintenance is making sure that the cleaning staff leaves it as bacteria-free as possible. ...

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Luxury Vinyl Flooring

New Cleaning Technology for New Flooring Technology

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The Sticky Floor Solution

E-book Release

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The Problem With Quaternary Disinfectants

Get our free E-book on Preventing Dirty, Sticky, Slippery Floors

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Top 3 Advantages of Using A Closed-Loop Cleaning System

If you're not using a closed-loop system already, chances are you've heard the term thrown around at least. Closed-loop means that product c...

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Prevent Slip & Fall Accidents Through Cleaning

Slip and fall accidents are no joke for businesses, employees, and customers. They can be expensive, and in more extreme circumstances can impact some...

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How Dirty Wrestling Mats Led to a New Cleaning Solution for an Entire ...

Changing to a new cleaning product is never an easy decision, but sometimes a current solution just isn't working. For Facility Supervisor Mitch ...

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Floor Restoration: Renew Your Floor in 4 Steps

If you've been using a cleaning product that leaves a lot of residue behind, it's possible your floor has built up a layer of grime that you...

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The Hidden Danger of Sticky Floors

No one likes walking on a sticky floor. The tacky suction as it grips your shoes. The unpleasant squelching noise as you pull your foot away to take y...

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Why Do We Clean?

It's a basic question, but it's an important one to answer.

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Understanding Green Product Certifications

Are you trying to qualify for LEED certification, meet local green cleaning laws, or are just looking for a sustainable cleaning program? Then you&apo...

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Why Use Concentrated Cleaning Products?

When you're shopping for a new cleaning product for your business, you're likely to find yourself having to decide between ready-to-use &lpa...

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Our Responsibility and Commitment to You

When I watch my young children play, I think to myself "Am I doing enough for them?" This thought isn't about the food they eat, the bo...

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Five Ways To Beat The Heat as you Clean

As temperatures here have been soaring, with heat indexes surging to 110° or more, it's a good time to remember that cleaning can be intensiv...

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Tired of Constantly Hiring Cleaning Staff? Three Areas To Watch Out Fo...

The cleaning industry has long had a problem with turnover-with current estimates sitting at 200%. That's a pretty staggering figure when ...

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Why Diversify Your Supply Chain?

Over the last few years, you've probably heard more and more about diversifying suppliers or supply chains. We recently wrote a blog about the nu...

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Sanitizers vs. Disinfectants: What's the Difference?

One of the most common questions that we get here at EnvirOx is "what's the difference between a sanitizer and a disinfectant?"

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Can Green Cleaning Be Effective?

This is a question that can still haunt anyone wanting to use a green cleaner, even twenty years after EnvirOx revolutionized the industry with the in...

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The Cleaning Product You Use Could Be Costing You Customers

Whether your business has an internal staff that cleans its own facilities, or you're a BSC that cleans other companies, the cleaning products yo...

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BSCs: Offer Customers Your Fall Clean-up Expertise

Fall is just days away, so it's the perfect time for BSCs to reach out to their customers about preparing their facilities for the fall. The foll...

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Top 3 Benefits of Green Cleaning

Traditional cleaning products can contain high levels of VOCs (volatile organic compounds) that can lead to many different issues for the cl...

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Choosing The Right Mop for the Job

Different mops have different advantages, but what's the best for daily cleaning?

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What s the Most Important Quality to Look for When Hiring Cleaning S...

So, you're hiring a new member of your cleaning staff. Which of these qualities would be most important to you?

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5 Steps To Make Your Business More Green (And Save Money!&rpa...

More and more businesses are turning to safer, more "green" options when it comes to choosing a cleaning product. That's because now, m...

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4 Advantages of Low Residue Cleaning Products

Residue is one of the hidden dangers of traditional products

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How to get LEED Credits with Green Cleaning Products

Whether you own a BSC that wants to clean a LEED-certified building or you manage an in-house janitorial staff at one, the cleaning products you use a...

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Pickles, Punch Boards, and Pies in the Face

October Fundraising at EnvirOx

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Why You MUST Clean Before You Sanitize or Disinfect

We're all looking to do things more efficiently. For some people, it's a point of pride. For others, it's how they adapt to the need to...

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Flu Fighters: Protecting Schools Against An Unseen Menace

It's that time of year again! Last year was the worst flu season in a decade.1 What this year will hold is still to be determined, as the pea...

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The Dangers of Bad Attitudes at Work

We all have bad days. It's just a simple fact of life. The kids didn't want to get up. The dog did his business on the bathroom rug. Aunt Ma...

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Hiring The Future: Understanding Generational Differences

What generation are you considered a part of? Right now there are four different academically-recognized generations in the workforce. These are Baby ...

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The Year Behind, The Year Ahead: A Message From Our President

Wasn't this an interesting year? It's felt that way personally and professionally across so many different areas; in business, the world, an...

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Protecting The Next Generation

Indoor Air Quality and Early Learning Facilities

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A Simple Equation: Clean Schools = Healthy Students = Better Learn...

There is a very real link between cleaning and student success.

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Plugging the Glug-Glug

Is a Closed Loop Cleaning System Right For You?

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Student Attendance and Cleaning

Make Sure You're Not Doing More Harm Than Good

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Your University s Cleaning Expectations Are They Up to Date?

Most higher education facilities are cleaned by in-house cleaning staff, an outsourced cleaning contractor, or a mixture of both. Whoever is doing the...

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Waste: The Hidden Enemy

When you think of waste, you might first think of what you throw into the trash. However, that's only part of it. But waste encompasses a lot of ...

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Harness the Power of the Suggestion Box

Ah, the trusty old suggestion box. This tried, and true workplace fixture has haunted many breakrooms and hung near the timeclock of many an establish...

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Manage A Custodial Team? Share the Value You Bring.

When it comes to schools and universities, having an efficient and robust cleaning staff should be one of their top priorities. But janitorial teams a...

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Fight the Clock: Preventing Overtime

There are many reasons why overtime becomes necessary, and they might not all seem within your control as a manager of a janitorial staff. But there a...

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Top 5 Ways to Protect Custodians on the Job

As a manager of a facility or BSC, part of your job is making sure your employees are supported and safe. There's no denying the statistics when ...

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Understanding the Anatomy of LVT Flooring

Are you Cleaning it Correctly? Luxury Vinyl Tile (LVT) flooring is one of the hottest building trends right now. In 2018, the LVT market si...

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Restoring Your LVT Floor

Luxury vinyl tile is constructed differently than traditional types of flooring, so your past methods of cleaning might have led to a build-up of resi...

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Safer Cleaning for Student Health

One of the ways that custodial staff at schools can have a significant effect on the health and safety of students and faculty is to carefully examine...

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Top 3 Risks to Janitors and How to Combat Them

Janitor safety should be a prime concern for every manager of a cleaning staff. Custodians are such a vital part of making sure that facilities remain...

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Daily Cleaning for LVT Flooring

In a previous blog, we talked about how to restore luxury vinyl tile (LVT) floors that had begun to look dirty or yellow over time. The culp...

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What's Your College's Cleaning Level?

Some of you probably saw the headline of this article and knew exactly what we were going to talk about. The rest of you might be scratching your head...

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Turnover, Unhappiness, and Injury: The Costs of a Poor Training Pr...

Do you have a formal training program for your cleaning staff? We asked this question in a recent webinar.

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Our Climate IS Changing. But There is Hope.

At EnvirOx, we stand for the health and wellness of all people and for a better environment that supports our future generations. We believe that sust...

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Indoor Air Quality: Your Winter Prep Checklist

Fall is officially here! And for those of us not blessed with mild winters, that means that very soon it'll be time to close the windows and ...

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Resources for Creating Your Own Training Program

We recently wrote about why a training program is so essential to janitorial staff. Once you've identified the areas that need to be covered, you...

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Can You Smell That Smell? Tackling Locker Room Odors

If you're a cleaning professional who has cleaned locker rooms, you're likely very familiar with how challenging it can be. Whether it'...

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Flu Season Off to Early Start: Here s How to Fight It

The CDC announced at a recent conference call that thirty states are seeing flu activity this year already. That's the most in a decade.

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A Tragic Reminder: Protecting Workers From the Danger of Mixing Cl...

On Thursday, November 7th, a worker at a Buffalo Wild Wings in Burlington, Massachusetts, applied a chlorine and bleach-based product to a floor, not ...

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Expert Tips for a More Eco-Friendly Home in 2020

A green-certified product requires environmentally preferred components that reduce toxicity that can linger in your air and on your surfaces. Green c...

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So When IS It Clean?

Have you ever been visiting someone's house, and everything is so spotless and immaculate that you feel guilty about your own home? Or, conversel...

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The Long-Term Effects of Disinfectants on Surfaces & Health

Since the COVID-19 pandemic hit, most of us have been dealing with the immediate threat. That's the priority. Demand and disruptions in the suppl...

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Health Officials Sound Alarm on the Use of Disinfectants

"Cleaners tend to go in with hugely toxic chemicals. We're creating another problem for a whole group of people, and I'm not sure we&ap...

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Language Barriers, Reducing Costs & COVID Too: One BSC's Stor...

Dominic Cedillo, CEO of Clean Care, joined the company in August of 2019. Like anyone who steps into a leadership role at a building service contracto...

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How to Restore Rusted Salt Truck Beds

It's that time of year again-when the weather turns wet and snowy for much of the United States. That means it's time for salt trucks have b...

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The Year Behind, The Year Ahead

The experience of 2020 will stay with us for decades to come. There will be no shortage of summarizing, reflecting, and studying what happened and wh...

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PSA: Cleaning for Peanut Allergies

Those who suffer from food allergies know they're no joke. Food allergies result when normally harmless proteins (allergens) in food ca...

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Introducing the EnvirOx Training Portal

The COVID-19 pandemic has taught everyone a lot of lessons. Some of them have been hard lessons. The cleaning world is not immune to this. For us, one...

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Now Available: Green Cleaning Best Practices Video Training

Watching the news and keeping track of the latest science surrounding COVID-19 can feel tiring. But it's so critical to the job cleaning professi...

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How to Choose & Use the Right Gloves For Cleaning

Green Cleaning and creating an effective Green Cleaning Program is about more than just what product you use, although we (of course) have s...

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Glasses? Goggles? Which is Right For the Job?

In this series on Green Cleaning Best Practices, we're exploring a few topics covered in the Green Cleaning Best Practices Course on the EnvirOx ...

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Why Microfiber Is the Clear Winner When it Comes to Cleaning

When it comes to the type of cleaning cloths professional cleaners use, the debate of cotton versus microfiber continues in some quarters. While micro...

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Entryway Mats: Your First Line of Defense

It's that time of year again, where winter snows equal feet tracking in the usual dirt and debris along with a lot of residue from various ice-me...

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Distributors Choose H2Orange2 112 as a 2022 Sanitary Maintenance Award...

Exciting news today from our friends at CleanLink. EnvirOx has won a 2022 Sanitary Maintenance Distributor Choice Award for our H2Orange2 Hyper-Concen...

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Choosing The Right Multi-Purpose Cleaner Part 1

One of the things we've strived to do throughout our history is to make things simpler when it comes to cleaning. Simpler for managers, cleaning ...

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Choosing The Right Multi-Purpose Cleaner Part 2

What level of sanitization or disinfection do you need?

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Choosing The Right Multi-Purpose Cleaner Part 3

What smell makes the occupants of your building trust something is clean?

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Can a Cleaning Product Really Help with Labor Shortages?

This is the first in a series of blogs we'll be writing to highlight the various ways that choosing the right cleaning product (spoilers, ou...

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The Changing Workforce & Cleaning Products

Generational shifts are here to stay. Here's how you can adapt.

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The Cycle of Responsible Disinfection

People have been trying to define what the often-repeated phrase "the new normal" actually means. We have a better idea than ever. One of th...

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The Disinfection Revolution Begins 7/3/23

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Introducing OxiGenesis RTU

The disinfection revolution has begun

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SafeBET - The Key to Responsible Disinfection

As the rise of the newest COVID variant, Eris, reminds us-the next concerning pathogen or variant is always around the corner. But the sense of fatigu...

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The Disinfection Balance

A surge of late-summer illness-including COVID-has led to schools canceling classes and reinstating some safety measures. While the science has shown ...

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EnvirOx Invited to the EPA's Design for the Environment Summit

EnvirOx was proud to have been asked by the Environmental Protection Agency to speak at their The 2023 Safer Choice Partner & Stakeholder Summit on Oc...

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Avoid A Disinfection Horror Story

It might be spooky season, but we like to keep our scares in books, movies, and haunted house attractions. Definitely not in the form of doorknobs tha...

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Slimebusters!

When Carolyn Quinn of Pike Systems came to us with her story and pictures, we knew we'd have to have a little fun with it. It all started when he...

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Can Cleaning Products Really Fight Labor Shortage Issues?

The cleaning industry has never been a stranger to turnover. In the past, turnover in our industry has been 200% or higher.

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EnvirOx Recognized as Partner of the Year by the EPA Safer Choice Prog...

Exciting news! EnvirOx was named a 2024 Safer Choice Partner of the Year award winner for outstanding achievement in designing and manufacturing p...

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Cleaning & Preventing Ice Melt on Floors

Battling winter mess? Here are some tips on what you can do to make your job easier.

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Streaks on Glass? Don't Let the REAL Culprit Get Away with It!...

Streaks on glass are irritating! But don't assume it's your cleaning product at fault...