We provide our sustainability-conscious clients with a range of options to complement their own environmentally positive efforts.

Servicing clients from a range of industries with differing needs, our Environmental Manager makes regular site visits to identify opportunities to improve environmental practice and performance, in accordance with the clients’ needs, in the following areas:

Chemical Use
As a cleaning company, IPS understands the need for products which get the job done properly, but realises that often these products contain harmful chemicals which eventually end up in our environment.

IPS staff avoid using chemicals wherever possible. We offer our clients a range of naturally-derived products which are effective, safe for human health, and neutral to the environment.

Water Use
IPS acknowledge that water is one of our most valuable resources, and aim to conserve it as much as possible, both on and off site.

It is our practice to report leaky taps and plumbing devices to supervisors at our sites, to avoid water-intensive high pressure steam cleaning processes where unnecessary, and to avoid hosing areas which do not require it.

Likewise, we are attentive to the removal and disposal of wastewater, and ensure that chemically contaminated water is appropriately managed at all times.  

Energy Use
IPS aim to conserve energy through the use of electricity where possible, and are currently in the process of developing appropriate targets and objectives to ensure continual improvement – in the form of reductions to energy usage – in line with our EMS.

To this end, IPS are examining energy-efficient appliances and services, alternative sources of energy and changes in behaviour which will help reduce our - and our client’s - carbon footprints.

Waste/Recycling
One of the major opportunities within the cleaning industry to improve environmental performance is the avoidance or reduction of waste. IPS are conscious of this fact and incorporate provisions to reduce our – and thus our client’s – impact in this regard. All of our practices, on and off site, employ the following waste hierarchy as our model when dealing with waste:

• Prevention
• Minimisation
• Reuse
• Recycle
• Energy recovery (where possible and appropriate, though not usually feasible)
• Disposal