Going Green: Local Government, Businesses, Announce Unique Cooperative Effort to Reduce the Impact Buildings Have on Indoor and Outdoor Environments
Claiming to be the first community in the nation to embrace an effective, cost-efficient, community-wide green cleaning campaign, the city and county of Racine Wisconsin have announced plans to create an ongoing, coordinated effort to mprove the impact facilities have on health and environment.
By CleanLink Editorial Staff
Claiming to be the first community in the nation to embrace an effective, cost-efficient, community-wide green cleaning campaign, the city and county of Racine Wisconsin have announced plans to create an ongoing, coordinated effort to mprove the impact facilities have on health and environment.
"Green Racine will be an annual event aimed to continually improve the health of people in the Racine community and our natural environment," says Gary Becker, mayor of Racine. "We hope that by being the first community to make this degree of concerted effort to 'green' cleaning operations we can inspire other communities to do the same."
The announcement comes following pledges from more than 20 large community institutions and businesses to green their facilities by starting with the simple
step of changing to green cleaning processes and related products. Participating institutions include governments, schools and universities, medical facilities, environmental groups, churches and major local businesses.
The Green Racine campaign aims to track and report the impact that facilities have on the environment in Racine County. In the first year, for example, participating organizations will be able to measure impacts such as reductions of paper products used, improvements in indoor environmental quality, or enhanced occupant satisfaction.
"Because better measurements are emerging, we're beginning to recognize the impact that facilities have on health and environment," says Bill McReynolds, county executive of Racine, which is located between Milwaukee and Chicago and home to about 195,000 residents. "I'm very proud of the leaders across the county, who've committed their organizations to make a difference. And together we can make a big difference."
JohnsonDiversey Chairman S. Curtis Johnson described the community-wide green cleaning event as historic. "In many ways, today is a reflection of my family's deep commitment to this community and the environment," Johnson says.
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