Detergent

• The EU wants to introduce minimum standards to make nearly all products on its market sustainable, durable and eco-friendly.
• Long lasting, safe, and recyclable products that are less harmful to the environment should become the norm in the EU.
• EU manufacturers already have to align with ecodesign rules for energy-related products, such as heaters, refrigerators, vacuum cleaners or computers, reducing energy consumption and negative environmental effects in the design stage.
• The EU now wants to go a step further and introduce ecodesign rules for almost every product.

• An important cleaning aid in most kitchens is the tea towel, also known as a dishcloth.
• But, because hands and uncooked fresh produce are often rich in a diverse variety of germs, tea towels are prone to picking up the bacteria they come into contact with.
• Several studies have looked at the germs tea towels typically carry in domestic kitchens.
• Tea towels are good at picking up germs which is important as another study of 46 kitchens found a wide range of harmful bacterial species living on kitchen surfaces, which are often cleaned by tea towels.

Clean your cloths

• These studies suggest there is an infection risk from tea towels and that most kitchen cloths may be contaminated with high levels of bacteria.
• Tea towels that are hung up in the air tend to dry faster than cloths stored and squeezed into balls, which can affect levels of bacteria in the towels.
• Laboratory experiments that involved covering tea towels in salmonella, found that the bacteria multiplied in all types of cloths that were crumpled.
• But levels of bacteria were reduced by 1,000 times if the tea towels were hung to dry for 24 hours at room temperature.

Reduce the germs

• To avoid tea towels spreading germs around the kitchen, it’s recommended that the cloths are washed regularly and when they get wet, are allowed to dry completely before being used again.
• Since proteins and fats are also involved in the attachment of bacteria to surfaces, laundry detergents will help to detach and so reduce bacteria levels in tea towels.
• You should also store your laundered tea towels in a dry, clean area, away from any uncooked food and grubby hands.

• The global ethylene market is expected to grow at a significant rate due to the increasing demand from various end-use industries, such as packaging, automotive, construction, and textiles.
• Ethylene is a colorless, flammable gas that is widely used in the production of various chemicals, including polyethylene, ethylene oxide, and ethylene dichloride.
• Based on Feedstock, the Global Ethylene Market is segmented as naphtha, ethane, propane, butane, and others.
• Based on Application, the Global Ethylene Market is segmented as polyethylene, ethylene oxide, ethylene benzene, ethylene dichloride, ethylene glycol, vinyl acetate, alpha-olefins, and others.

• The "Industrial Air Quality Monitoring System Market - Global Outlook & Forecast 2023-2028" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.
• Hence the growing number of petrochemical industry sites is projected to boost the industrial air quality monitoring system market.
• The industrial air quality monitoring system market is highly competitive, with the presence of a large number of public and private companies.
• APAC dominated the global industrial air quality monitoring system market in 2022 and is expected to witness a CAGR of 7.12% during the forecast period.