The Triple S Green Guide is a blueprint that facilities can use to help develop a comprehensive green cleaning program. It includes:

• Green Certifications defined
• 8-step Facility Implementation Program
• Matting that meets the US Green Building Council criteria
• Cleaning without Chemicals
• Green Seal Dilution Control System
• EcoLogo Certified Floor Products
• RTU Green Seal Certified Cleaners
• Green certified soaps and LEED credit dryers
• Green carpet cleaners and Green Label vacuums
• Microfiber mopping, dusting, cleaning
• Green towels, tissue, liners
• Recycling resources
• Water conservation tools
• Environmental odor control, ice melt and graffiti remover

Our Commitment to Our Environment

Gem Supply is mindful of our use of the earth's natural resources, our impact on the environment of Florida and our responsibilities as members of the cleaning community. We commit ourselves to environmental awareness and responsibility. We also strive to promote sustainability within our facilities and in the lives of our employees.

This affirmation by Gem Supply comes at a time when the consequences of inaction are no longer abstract or shrouded in uncertainty. Although study and deliberation must continue, the accumulated knowledge about the effects of hazardous chemicals such as; caustics, phosphates, bleach, ammonia, chelating agents, silicates, dye, harsh detergents, perfumes, butyls, glycol ethers, solvents, volatile organic compounds, SARA Section 313 reportable ingredients, corrosive acids, harsh builders, persistent bio-accumulative or toxic chemicals, ozone depleting compounds and nonylphenol ethoxylates are well known and documented.

This demands the identification and implementation of effective solutions that will protect the environment because In the process of cleaning our industry annually consumes and disposes of:

• 5 Billion lbs. of chemicals
• 4.5 Billion lbs. of paper
• 35 Billion plastic liners
• 250 Million lbs. of vacuums

What is Gem doing to Live Green?

Gem’s ongoing efforts on behalf of sustainability and environmental stewardship take place in our business practices, in our continuing education classes and in the community. As a distribution company that has long derived great benefit and much of its identity from the sale of chemicals, Gem has a special obligation to challenge its employees and customers to examine, discuss, and debate issues of ecological preservation, social justice, economic viability, and global responsibility

Gem will continue to incorporate environmental awareness into our continuing education classes so that our customers and clients have the ability, knowledge and intellectual flexibility to confront these complex issues, make sound judgments and take ethical action.

In our daily operations, Gem will continue to reduce waste and pollution through conservation, recycling, and other sustainability practices. These efforts will continue to include the investigation and implementation of new technologies and methods aimed at reducing the cleaning industries impact on the environment.

Gem will also maintain its leadership role in the cleaning community by researching, indentifying and helping to solve the environmental challenges of cleaning.