ECJ EUROPEAN Cleaning Journal

Giulio Guizzi, co-founder of Italian window cleaning products company Pulex, has published a new book - his fourth covering the cleaning sector. This one is entitled Pulizia Igienica E Sanificazione - La Sporca Storia del Pulito, or Hygienic Cleaning and Sanitation - The Dirty History of Cleaning in English.

The book is currently available only in Italian, with the English version to follow early in 2016. It is a history of cleaning from antiquity until today covering, among many subjects, the way in which manual and mechanical methods have been used to conquer dirt around the planet through the ages.

Guizzi explained: "I wrote the book to give a cultural background to our cleaning world; to show the great socio-economic importance of our industry, which is undervalued worldwide, including our contribution to preventing the spread of contagions and cross-infection; to illustrate the social value of cleaning and sanitising; to show how cleaning jobs were solved when there were no detergents, chemicals and machinery; and to compare and contrast the differences and strong connections in the cleaning field between the USA and Europe."

Guizzi is donating all profits from the book to a special charity created and managed by the Afidamp association in Italy dedicated to helping the children of cleaners who have died in work-related accidents.