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Webinar: Innovation in Cleaning for Custodians and Students
December 11, 2019 @ 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm EST
FreeStanford University’s Residential and Dining Enterprises has adopted a green cleaning standard that has reduced chemical usage in residences by over 90%. The system engineers water by infusing it with ozone to create a solution as effective as traditional chemicals with no environmental or human health consequences, other than the use of electricity to generate the solution. Twenty percent of residences – or 32 buildings, 808,000sqft, with 29 full-time custodians and 2,509 students benefiting – are now using the system. In 2017 the new standard reduced over 3000 gallons of chemicals from being purchased, stored and disposed of in sewer drains or as hazardous waste compared to previous years. The initiative took the chemical inventory list from over 30 to 2-3. In 2018 access to the green cleaning system was expanded to students to clean their own apartments and use as laundry detergent.
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Kristin Parineh, Sustainability and Utility Manager, Stanford University Kristin has been with Stanford University’s Residential and Dining Enterprises as the Manager of Sustainability and Utilities Programs for 7 years. R&DE encompasses about 1/3 of the campus: 57 acres of landscape, 350 buildings and 13,000 residents. Kristin collaborates with students and staff to foster sustainable behavior change, reduce energy and water consumption and waste production, and to integrate long-term sustainable thinking into how R&DE operates. A few of Kristin’s current projects include interior and exterior zero waste programming, renovation projects that reduce utilities usage, and system wide adoption of green cleaning. Kristin previously served as the Sustainability Planner for the City of Palo Alto, and also has work experience at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, C.A. Environmental Protection Agency, and Natural Resources Defense Council. She has a BS in Environmental Design from U.C. Davis and a MPA in Environmental Science and Policy from Columbia University. |