VOC’s (Volatile Organic Compounds) are numerous, varied, and ubiquitous. Most scents and odors are VOC’s. Volatile organic compounds can have acute and long-term effects on human health. Cleaning staff generally use gloves and safety glasses to protect their skin and eyes, but this doesn’t protect their lungs and bloodstream.
Non-Active Biocatalysts as Eco-Clean with no VOC’s are the new developed answer to these problems.
Allen Rathey, president of the Healthy House Institute in Boise, Idaho, points out that VOC’s cannot be blamed for every case of worker absenteeism and impaired productivity. “But anything to do with respiratory illness will be impacted by VOC’s, so if you can reduce the VOCs, you’re going to prevent respiratory problems.” Many professional cleaners suffer the effects of occupational-related asthma.
Gary Walker, owner of Magic Touch Cleaning in Lee’s Summit, Mo., recalls the day nine years ago when he and his wife and co-owner, Trish, decided it was time to switch to green chemicals that emit lower VOC’s. That day, a female employee with known respiratory issues came into his office and informed him she coughed every time she used a specific product. She sprayed it into the air and immediately began coughing. Walker did, too. Since switching to low-VOC cleaners, Walker has seen reduced absenteeism and greater productivity among janitorial workers. “It was an expensive change,” he admits. “But I have one couple who works for me who has missed less than a week of work in nine years.”
Both Rathey and Walker would be pleased to know that the newly developed non-active biocatalysts are very efficient cleaners, degreasers and deodorizers with absolutely no VOC content. (not just “low VOC’s”) and they are much more economical than the products that do contain VOC’s.
Benefits of using Non-VOC cleaning products include:
- No emissions of smog-forming chemicals into the air.
- No health or safety issues for individuals using these products.
- Non-VOC cleaning products are born of a different technology and are cost competitive.
- Absence of fumes means no eye or respiratory irritation.
Substituting traditional cleaning products with Non-Active Biocatalysts that don’t contain VOC’s improves the air quality and protects the health and safety of people now being exposed to the chemical emissions of traditional cleaning products.