With the rash of Green programs, it might help to realize that there might be a difference between Green Clean and Cleaning Green.  They sound alike, but they have come to infer two different approaches to the Green process.  Green Clean is a kind of self-appointed title that basically says, "We've included some Green products."  Janitorial services are playing games with the public because adding Green items to the cleaning cart is not the full expectations of the Green Office program.

 Cleaning Green infers that the people are invested in the Green program working like "Technicians" rather than unskilled workers. You see, the janitorial and cleaning industry is "Coming of Age" as an active participant in building health rather than the unknown night shift that mops floors and empties the trash.  Janitorial workers have been generally "Task Oriented" rather than "Service Oriented."  Task oriented means they were given a job assignment and a time frame to get it done.  It didn't take much training to plug a janitorial need with a warm and willing body.

 Service oriented means that the person has a general knowledge base in the performance of his or her duties.  Cleaning Green should mean that the person doing the job has more than a new line of cleaners and a microfiber cloth for dusting.  Knowing how these things work and why they work brings Green Practices to the project as well as Green Products.

 Green Clean Institute believes that all janitorial and cleaning services need to have Green Clean Technicians to honestly claim to be a Green Clean Janitorial service.  Being a janitor is not enough in this new, Green economy.  Being a Green Clean Technician is the first step to an honest Green Clean business.