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Fithy buildings. Principals overseeing cleaning or hiring extra help out of pocket. Teachers scrambling to clean classrooms in time for the first days of school. Reports of missing, broken and misplaced equipment. Mouse poop.

That’s what many Chicago Public School principals say resulted after CPS privatized janitorial services in the schools to the tune of $340 million, and neither CPS nor Aramark have fixed the problems even after being informed of the situation.

UPDATE:
CPS to lay off 476 custodians

Some 226 principals (CPS operates 516 schools) responded to a survey taken by AAPPLE, a new activist group under the Chicago Principals and Administrators Association. The Aramark contract is the first issue the group is tackling, calling now on the Board of Education to rescind its $240 million contract with Aramark if the facilities giant can’t maintain “ordinary tidiness” standards known in the industry as APPA Level 2.

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A woman who died after falling from a ladder while cleaning the gutters on her bungalow had to wait 35 minutes for an ambulance, an inquest heard.

Celia Farrell, 65, died at Connolly Hospital, Blanchardstown, on August 4 last year, two days after sustaining severe head injuries when she fell backwards off a ladder at her home at The Mayne, Clonee in Co Meath.

Dublin Coroner’s Court heard that Mrs Farrell had been due to celebrate her wedding anniversary that evening with her husband Noel Farrell.

He told the inquest that they had gone to 10am Mass that morning and afterwards he was cutting the grass while his wife started to clean the gutters on the bungalow.

He said he had asked her to wait because he wasn’t happy with the ladder she was using and they were in “no hurry”. However, when he went to help her at around 1.45pm, he found her lying on the ground with the ladder beside her.

He called for help from their next door neighbour Ann Finn, who is a nurse, and for an ambulance but had to ring again because it was taking so long to get there. Ms Finn said that when she arrived she put Mrs Farrell into the recovery position.

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Dyson has unveiled a robot vacuum cleaner, which uses an advanced vision system to navigate rooms and can be controlled with a smartphone app. 

It Isn’t Just About the Planet

There are lots of things that professional cleaners can use to clean a place that don’t necessarily harm the environment. Some of those cleansers though are toxic to humans and animals and that presents a problem. To be a proper green company, the company needs to prove that it knows how to keep people just as safe as the planet. The last thing a company should do is say “we got it clean, but you can’t go in there or touch anything from there for a few days until the cleansers have settled in.”

Beware Price Gouging

The food industry is famous for increasing its prices for foods that are certified organic. It’s no wonder that other companies would try the same thing. While it is true that “greening up” a business can cost money, beware of the company that insists on passing that cost along to the consumer (and don’t try to do that if the company is yours). There are a lot of great tax credits and grants available to companies who want to go green that can offset the cost of the upgrades.

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Below are the top cleaning products stocks on the NYSE and the NASDAQ in terms of gross margin.

The trailing-twelve-month gross margin at Zep (NYSE: ZEP) is 47.00%. Zep's PEG ratio is 4.51.

The trailing-twelve-month gross margin at Ecolab (NYSE: ECL) is 45.70%. Ecolab's EPS for the same period is $3.58.

The trailing-twelve-month gross margin at Church & Dwight Co (NYSE: CHD) is 44.50%. CHD's ROE for the same period is 18.10%.

The trailing-twelve-month gross margin at Ocean Bio-Chem (NASDAQ: OBCI) is 33.70%. Ocean Bio-Chem's revenue for the same period is $32.90

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For many, diving into a shark tank and spending hours every day among the deadly creatures would be a terrifying thought.

But for one man, spending up to seven hours a day swimming with more than 10 sharks is just part of his daily work schedule.

That's because Matt Martin, 35, is a professional shark tank cleaner at the Blue Planet Aquarium in Cheshire and heads up a team which takes more than 1,000 dives in the 3.4million litre tank every year.

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People can spend hours per week cleaning and tidying up their homes. However, according to a new study, no matter how much disinfectant people use, their homes will still be covered in bacteria. The bacteria, at least, mostly belong to the people who live in the house.

"We have so little information about where the microbes come from that shape our microbiome, whether it's for health or disease," said microbiologist Jack Gilbert of the Argonne National Laboratory and University of Chicago according to Philly. "It's the indoor environment. The best place to look at that was the home."