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Clean Parking Lots: Use a Zone Defense to Protect Your Facility

Make no mistake, dirt and contaminants in your parking and loading/unloading areas around your building represent a threat to interior cleanliness, employee health, and your company’s checkbook. By establishing and maintaining a “Clean Zone” approach around your facility, you can effectively reduce interior maintenance costs and provide a cleaner, healthier environment for all of your employees and customers.

Is your parking lot clean?

Sure, you get someone to occasionally clean up the obvious stuff like the cups and light litter from your parking lots.  However there is an unseen battle being fought on your property every day. Cars, trucks, wind, and rain are bringing sand, dirt, pesticides, fertilizers, brake dust, and other fine particulates onto your property and leaving them all over your parking lots and sidewalks.

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Stormwater Pollution Prevention Planning In Construction: Street Sweeping is a BMP

Keeping waterways clean and limiting airborne dust disturbed during construction may not initially seem like an area of attention for companies known for maintaining parking lots and sweeping municipal streets. Yet, many consider street sweeping to be the final line of defense keeping eroding and tracked soil and sediment off roads and out of storm water drainage systems. Our power broom sweeping and vacuum sweeping expertise is identified as one of the Best Management Practices (BMPs) for builders to carry out in connection with a qualified sediment and erosion control plan.

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Sweeper Summit ’15 Recap

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Your 1-800-SWEEPER staff would like to thank all of the vendors, prospective partners and power sweeping company owners / management teams who attended our organization’s fourth annual Sweeper Summit. Once again expertly coordinated by Member Services Administrator Carolyn Bell, this year’s event was held in Phoenix AZ. Based on early feedback, attendees enthusiastically agree the conference was a huge success – educational, enjoyable and memorable!

Sweeper Summit 2015

Unique within our industry, Sweeper Summit has come to represent an opportunity for our membership to share best management practices and deeply understand metrics specific to sweeping service businesses. At the same time, our group continues to get fantastic personalized training, together with old friends and new partners in a casual and relaxed atmosphere.

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Fall Leaf Cleanup: Save the Environment and your Wallet with Leaf Sweeping

Autumn leaves provide a burst of twirling, majestic color to our world for a few weeks each year before they promptly become a huge nuisance for months after that. Because of this, it is tempting to simply leave these crunchy burdens where they fall and wait for old man winter to cover them up. However, this can pose some very real environmental and financial threats so before you let sleeping leaves lie, consider the importance of getting them properly swept.

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Water Quality: Why Street Sweeping is so Important

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Water is one of our most important natural resources and protecting that resource should be a top priority for business and individuals. There are many things that most people are aware of that impact water quality, however, some of the things that affect it the most go unnoticed. Street sweeping is, in fact, one of the best things cities and business owners can invest in for proper stormwater management and few people thinking of it this way. Consider the impact on water quality with these environmental results of street sweeping.

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