Your Start-to-Finish Guide to Launching a Successful Cleaning Business
Starting a cleaning business, as with any venture, requires a great deal of preparation. From writing a business plan to organizing a resume to show to clients, much of the work is done before you ever step foot in your actual workplace. When you make sufficient preparations, though, you can look forward to the future success of your company with confidence.
How to Keep Your Trash Can Clean
The trash can is one of the filthiest, most germ-ridden things on your property. Imagine how many disgusting things are crawling around in there! To keep it clean and to keep your family safe, rinse the trash can with soap and water after it’s emptied. If you regularly throw food scraps in your bin, don't let nasty stuff build up on the bottom of the can. Remember that it's your home and your family's health that's at risk.
Going Zero Waste: A Guide for Landlords and Property Managers
As a landlord or property manager, you shouldn’t be a stranger to waste management concepts like reuse of materials and recycling. But you may have also heard of a newer and more ambitious approach to the question of how to reduce or manage waste: zero waste.
Everyone Can Benefit from Recycling Services
Dirty trash bins can not only harm you and your family, they can also affect your neighbors. Insects, flies, and rodents can transfer bacteria from your trash bin to your neighbor’s houses. In addition, the smell can spread into other people's homes. You can protect your community by cleaning your trash bins.
Benefits Of Cleaning Your Trash Bins
Dirty trash bins can not only harm you and your family, they can also affect your neighbors. Insects, flies, and rodents can transfer bacteria from your trash bin to your neighbor’s houses. In addition, the smell can spread into other people's homes. You can protect your community by cleaning your trash bins.
Bugs, REVISITED…
A recent article at How I Get Rid Of lists the most deadly insects in the world. Shockingly, it isn’t some exotic insect on a distant shore. It is the common mosquito. The article reads… “According to the World Mosquito Program, it is estimated that at least 700 million people contract mosquito-borne diseases every single year, and at least one million of these people die from mosquito-borne illnesses each year across the globe.”
How Cleaning Your Trash Bins Can Improve Property Value
As a homeowner, the one thing you don’t want is for your home to lose value. Your home provides shelter and is an emblem of your social status. But more importantly, that building is probably the most expensive thing you have ever bought. Whatever affects the value of your home will touch your life deeply.
That is why it is vital to make sure the appearance of your trash bin matches the image of your home.
The Secret(s) To Cybersecurity
Scott Augenbaum’s book — The Secret To Cybersecurity: A Simple Plan To Protect Your Family And Business From Cybercrime — is a common sense guide to protect your family from cybercriminals. The book opens with what he calls ‘The Four Truths’:
Truth One: Nobody expects to become a victim.
Truth Two: You’re probably not getting your money back.
Truth Three: The bad guys probably aren’t getting arrested.
Truth Four: A majority of cybercrime can be prevented.
CyberSecurity Starts In Your Trash
Most everything you would need to know to steal someone’s identity can usually be found in their trash can. You roll it out to the curb on trash day and walk away. In it, a treasure trove of information about the people in your home.
How To Make A Garbage Can Smell Better
Paper, plastic and glass are the most common items thrown in the garbage can. None of these things stink. However, most of these things have small amounts of organic matter left on them. Packaged food, fruits, vegetables, meat, drinks, and other biodegradable things that we use daily get tossed in a warm, dark container that is the prefect environment for bacteria to grow as these things decompose. The slow breakdown of organic substances and their subsequent consumption by microorganisms can produce unpleasant-smelling chemical compounds.
Cleaning, Sanitizing, and Disinfecting Your Garbage Can
It’s important to clean, sanitize and disinfect the surfaces in and around your home regularly to help prevent the spread of disease, including COVID-19. Here are the basics you need to know about cleaning, sanitizing and disinfecting your garbage can in order to keep your family safe.
How To Clean a Garbage Can With Bleach
One of the most germ-ridden things on your property is the garbage can.
The garbage can is a source of bacteria and odor that people often just live with.
Bags and can liners catch a lot of the solid debris, but liquids and trash residue still find their way onto the inner surfaces of your garbage cans and need to be cleaned regularly.
Bleach is the most recommended solution
It’s a dirty, disgusting job.
Electrostatic spraying
TriStar Bin Cleaning is committed to thoroughly cleaning and sanitizing your entire trash can - that means the inside and the outside. The handles that are used to wheel your bin to the street and back and open up the lid on a daily basis are the highest touched points of a trash bin. That is the area we are targeting with our new electrostatic spraying technology.
Take Back Your Man Cave
TriStar Bin Cleaning is committed to protecting the oasis that is the Man Cave. So wipe the sawdust off the fridge that used to be in your kitchen and now acts as a centerpiece for your man cave, sign up for a bin cleaning subscription and be proud to invite the whole cul-de-sac over to watch your team lose in overtime. Your favorite team stinks! So what! Your trash bin doesn’t, and THAT makes YOU a winner.
The Trash Can
What is the proper name of the wheeled trash can we roll out to the curb? It depends on your location. Some common terms are dustbin, garbage can, and trash can. The words "rubbish", "basket" and "bin" are more common in British English usage, while "trash" and "can" are more common in American English usage. Other names used around the world include, Trash Cart, Garbage Pail, Litter Bin, Wheelie Bin, Rubbish Bin, Dust Bin, Toter Bin, Waste Can, Waste Bin.
Bugs, Really?
We can’t completely eliminate insects and germs from our lives, but there are a number of things that we can do to protect our families and pets from unnecessary exposure to these potentially harmful things. Regularly cleaning and sanitizing your trash bins and recycle bins is one of the best ways to remove the food source and begin the process of eliminating them from our living spaces.
Do.It.Right.
Whatever you are doing, even if you are just cleaning your garbage cans, you will never regret doing it right. Doing it right eliminates the need to do it over (and often still get poor results).
What’s Really Inside Your Trash Can?
If we think about our trash can as an extension of our home, we begin to think differently about keeping them cleaner, but there hasn’t been a good trash can cleaning option for the home, until now.