Your cleaning products don’t simply vanish forever when they slide down the drain. They typically end up in a treatment plant. But, because treatment plants are rarely 100 percent effective in removing every last substance from water, some of these substances inevitably

end up finding their way into the environment. If you’re cleaning with truly safe substances like vinegar, this hardly matters. But if everyone is cleaning with toxic substances, the collective results could potentially be deadly to other living organisms, possibly including plankton in the water (which has seen an almost 50 percent decline globally in the recent past, according to CBC News) and perhaps then affecting countless other links in the food chain.

With so much at stake, it’s crucial for us all to give consideration to the products and methods we use for cleaning. 

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SEOUL, South Korea (WTHR) — A janitor in South Korea found a treasure in the trash at Incheon International Airport Thursday.

According to CNBC, local media reported the man found seven gold bars that were wrapped in newspaper and thrown away. A local news outlet said the gold belonged to a Korean man who instructed two other men to throw them away, fearing being searched in customs.

If no one claims the gold, the janitor, who has not been identified, will be able to keep it. If the owner does make a claim for it, the janitor would still be able to keep 5 to 20 percent of its market price, which would be between $16,250 and $65,000, according to the Korea Times.

However, if the gold is found to be linked to criminal activity, the janitor will not be able to have any part of it.

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Bernice Yeung’s 2018 book In A Day’s Work, is an extremely readable yet detailed work that documents workplace sexual harassment and assault among janitorial, caregiving and agricultural workers in the United States. Yeung, a reporter for ProPublica from Berkeley, California, also demonstrates the ways in which these workers are fighting back through legal mechanisms with help from both governmental and non-governmental organizations.

Importantly, she also highlights major gaps in labor laws that deny rights to janitorial, caregiving and agricultural workers and how some local and state governments are working to fill these gaps. The book also focuses on how stereotypes create impediments to justice and encouraging attempts to change the way many in these industries view and react to sexual assault.

Yeung’s book is essential reading for anyone working in janitorial, caregiving or agricultural work, or is an undocumented immigrant or advocate for immigrant rights who is unsure about the rights and recourse to justice for sexual harassment and assault victims. Yeung details several non-governmental advocacy groups that can serve as examples for areas in the United States that currently lack necessary advocacy groups for janitors, caregivers, and farm workers. For example, Yeung describes how Vicky Marquez, a member of a southern California advocacy group for janitors, Maintenance Cooperation Trust Fund (MCTF), goes from site to site to build personal relationships with janitorial staff.

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7 Months Later & Still No Check! 

The House of Representatives is expected to approve back pay this month for hundreds of thousands of federal contractors who went unpaid during the 35-day government shutdown during December and January, according to Democratic lawmakers.

Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) has pushed for Congress to approve back pay for hundreds of thousands of federal contractors affected by the government shutdown. (Melina Mara/The Washington Post)

On Tuesday, the House Appropriations Committee announced that an upcoming government spending package will include back pay for an estimated 580,000 federal contractors, whose ranks include janitors, cooks, & security guards...

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A group of janitorial workers who were contracted to work in South Holland School District 151 claim their former employer, Alpha Building Maintenance Service, stole tens of thousands of dollars in wages from them over the last five-plus years.

Eight of the workers, who cleaned three schools within District 151 until they were either terminated or resigned from ABMS in late February, filed a class action lawsuit against the south suburban maintenance contractor Tuesday in Cook County Chancery Court.

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Janitors who are part of the Service Employees International Union, Local 32BJ protested K&S Management Services, a Vienna-based non-union cleaning contractor in Tysons.

With 75,000 commercial office cleaners’ contracts set to expire this year, Jaime Contreras, the vice president for 32BJ SEIU, told Tysons Reporter that the union will help with bargaining.

“Today we are focused on K&S, which is the largest non-union cleaning company in Virginia — also a company who is known to violate workers’ rights to organize on the job,” Contreras said. “They were found guilty by the National Labor Board of firing a worker for simply trying to organize on the job.”

That former K&S worker, Geofredo Castro, told the crowd in Spanish and with an English translator that he decided to organize his workers with 32BJ because “there were lots of injustices and they didn’t pay us a fair salary and we didn’t get almost any benefits.”

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The Instagram 'influencer' Mrs Hinch is under investigation by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) following a Telegraph article.

The advertising watchdog has confirmed it is looking into posts by the social media personality, whose real name is Sophie Hinchliffe, containing products from one of her sponsors, Procter and Gamble (P&G).

The investigation comes after the 29-year-old former hair dresser from Essex has become one of the country’s biggest cleaning influencers, regularly recommending homecare products to her more than 2.5 million Instagram followers.

A spokesman for the ASA said: “I can confirm that we are investigating Mrs Hinch as a result of receiving complaints in April this year around the issue of ad disclosure. We will publish our decision in due course.”

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TULSA, Okla. — The 3,000 electronic games and gaming tables are silent at River Spirit Casino Resort as the water encroaches, idling more than 1,500 employees in an eerie scene threatening to repeat itself in flood-soaked communities across the Midwest and the Great Plains.

The 200,000-square-foot gambling mecca has been closed since the Arkansas River began flooding last week, and it's expected to remain closed until at least the middle of next week, said Muscogee (Creek) Nation Casinos, which operates the casino.

The casino's pool bar is under water, which has even entered its famed tiki bar, the resort said.

"We're still at the mercy of Mother Nature, waiting for the water to stop rising," Pat Crofts, the company's chief executive, said Tuesday.

The Army Corps of Engineers has been releasing 275,000 cubic feet of water per second from the Keystone Dam, which protects Tulsans from the waters of Keystone Lake and the Arkansas and Cimarron rivers upstream.

Authorities warned Tuesday that the release could raise standing floodwaters by more than a foot in Tulsa and the communities of Sand Springs and Bixby.

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Hand dryers suck in fecal bacteria and blow it all over your hands, study finds...

We know fecal bacteria shoots into the air when a lidless toilet flushes — a phenomenon known, grossly, as a “toilet plume.” But in bathrooms where such plumes gush regularly, where does all that fecal bacteria go?

Into a hand dryer and onto your clean hands, perhaps. That’s what a new study suggests. Researchers examined plates exposed to just 30 seconds of a hand dryer compared to those left in, you know, just plain feces-filled air.

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Why do people feel the need to disinfect their homes?’: Kirstie Allsopp sparks debate with divisive opinion on cleaning

The 47-year-old property expert kicked off the discussion when talking about air fresheners, revealing that she wehemently dislikes them and doesn’t agree with their use.

After some comments back from Twitter users, Kirstie shared her opinion that there is also no reason to ‘disinfect our homes’ with antibacterial products.

Later, she took particular aim at Zoflora, a potent disinfectant made famous by Instagram cleaning sensation Mrs Hinch.

Questioning the need for such cleaning products, she wrote, ‘Why do people feel the need to “disinfect” their homes? Our home is not a hospital, it’s not harbouring super bugs, it’s tidy and clean and well aired, but going round cleaning imaginary “bad” bugs is just weird, and bad science.

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