Green Cleaning

We strive to help our clients become green, or at the very least head in a greener direction. With the ever-increasing demand for greener facilities, green products and services have become far more affordable. HBA Professional Service has invested a great deal into becoming a company that can provide every aspect of green cleaning.

As part of our mission to provide the highest quality green cleaning services to businesses and institutions in the Bay Area, we are dedicated to conserving our planet’s natural resources, preventing pollution and reducing waste through our use of environmentally friendly products and practices.

Our employees are trained in green cleaning practices. As part of our commitment to “going green”, we enforce green cleaning policies and offer on-going employee training on green cleaning techniques, consumable usage, energy conservation and waste minimization.

Environmentally Friendly Products. We use environmentally friendly Green Seal Certified® cleaning products.

These products have:

• No alkaline builders
• Diluted concentrates have a pH less than or equal to 10.0
• Ingredients are non-carcinogenic
• Less than 0.5% total phosphorus
• Use-solutions do not contribute to smog formation or poor indoor air quality
• Non-combustible
• No heavy metals
• No alkyl phenol ethylates
• Primary packages are recyclable
• Low skin, eye and respiratory irritation potential
• No ozone depleting substances

Recycled Products

We propose the use of high quality products made with a sensible amount of recycled material. These higher-quality and better-performing products allow users to use less. Obviously, when fewer products are consumed then less waste heads to the landfill, which is a positive impact on the environment. Products that create less waste, require less packaging, dispense more effectively and last longer enable our customer to use less.

Green Equipment

Another aspect of fulfilling the green portion of the cleaning process is to use equipment that meets green and LEED standards. These requirements include the following characteristics:

• HEPA filtration vacuums
• Low emissions, dust control enhanced, quiet battery burnishers
• Extractors that use minimal water and allow for quick drying times
• Floor stripping machines that use less chemical and provide less
• exposure to employees
• Low noise, high filtration ergonomic vacuum quarterback

Green Chemicals

HBA Professional Service currently uses numerous green chemical programs. These programs consist of products, procedures and equipment designed to have a reduced environmental impact while maintaining superior performance. Our chemical program is predicated on cleaning for health and the environment. We can clean almost every surface with a green product. The chemicals are now on par and in some cases exceed products used in the past.

Green Cleaning Service Process

By the Service Process we mean that the way we clean must best utilize the green chemicals and equipment we have put in place. The Cleaning Process includes:

• Cleaning techniques that promote the most efficient use of products such as training on the proper amount of product to use and proper wiping motion for certain tasks.
• Cleaning techniques that promote the most efficient use of electricity such as working through areas and then closing the lights down in those areas and moving to another building section instead of having all the lights on throughout the facility for the entire shift.
• Proper training on supply usage such as when to replace paper products and liners as not to throw away usable product. For example, coreless toilet paper or office liners that may need emptying but not replacing when possible.