While I don’t qualify for senior citizen discounts just yet, I’ve been around awhile, and I’ve seen a few things along the way. Thirty years ago we were well aware of environmental conservation and such, but I’ll guarantee there was little to no consideration given to anything we would now consider “green” when it came to most professional cleaning, coating, disinfecting, and other industry products.

The word “green” was around but it wasn’t until about 20 or so ago when we started calling everything that was slightly less toxic “green.” In that primitive stage of awareness, we would use the “green” version of a product if a customer was sensitive, requested it, or if we were trying to differentiate ourselves from our competitors in the marketplace. …otherwise, we would use the older products we had come to rely on for effectiveness.