Facts 

• Almost 5 billion pounds or over 690 million square feet of carpet are sent to landfill each year (Source: US EPA)

• Billions of liters of fresh water is used for carpet cleaning each year

• Millions of kilowatt hours of electricity is used to dry carpet that is wet cleaned through the HVAC system and fans

• Wet carpet cleaning contributes to millions of dollars of mold remediation because of improper drying procedures

 

Terms

 

Hard Surface vs. Soft Surface

• A hard surface floor does not trap and hold dirt

• A soft surface floor/carpet does trap and hold the dirt.

  • A carpet can hold its own weight in dirt and still look good, i.e. 2 pounds of dirt in a 30 oz./sq.yd.

  • A carpet can hold 2 times its weight in dirt before people begin to notice, i.e. 4 pounds of dirt in a 30 oz./sq.yd.

• 90% of the dirt that gets on a carpet in a building is tracked on by people's shoes, from inside or outside hard surfaces. Airborne dirt and dust makes up the other 10%, coming in through windows, doors, airborne cooking grease and the HVAC system

 

Micron 

• 1 micron is a millionth of a meter or 1 inch divided into 25,400 parts

• An average size of most bacteria is 2 microns

• GreenDry Carpet Cleaning uses eVAC with a 6-stage filtration system that traps particles as small as 1 micron in size at 99% efficiency (optional: add a HEPA media filter can trap particles as small as 0.3 micron at 99.97% efficiency)