Young Offenders to Clean up Graffiti as Part of a New Scheme
November 19, 2008 Posted by Katie in : Cleaning News, News , add a commentBuckinghamshire County Council and a youth offending team have partnered up to send young offenders who have been involved in vandalism onto the streets to clear graffiti.
The work is done as part of the youngsters time with the youth offending team, which children are referred to after being convicted in court.
Under the project, youngsters are sent out with non-toxic cleaning kits and work in small teams under close supervision.
Michael Box, a technician with Buckinghamshire County Council, came up with the idea for the project.
He said: ‘We have virtually no budget for graffiti cleaning bridges and subways, and seeing these public places covered in tags does upset members of the public.’
‘I was trying to work out how to overcome this when I had a chance conversation with a friend, who works with the young offending service in another part of the country, who spoke about having difficulty finding schemes to get the youngsters involved in.’
‘It just seemed obvious; you could solve both problems by putting them together.’
The scheme has been hailed as “exceptional” and has earnt Mr Box some personal success after he won the county council’s Innovation Achieving Top Performance award earlier in the year.
Buckinghamshire Youth Offending Service manager said: ‘Community reparation work is a fundamental tool in making sure young people who offend understand there are consequences for their behaviour, and preventing them from re offending.’
A Cleaning Job Out Of This World
Posted by Administrator in : News , add a commentSometimes, cleaning can be a boring job, right? Office Cleaning and House Cleaning are not the most exciting job in this world, but what about cleaning in the void of Space? Well that sounds like a cleaning job out of this world (literally and metaphorically). Possibly one of the most exciting cleaning jobs ever.
Yesterday, two astronauts from the international space station have started a series of spacewalks to clean a massive joint that turns one of the power-generating solar-panel wings toward the sun. This joint is 10 foot wide and has been clogged with metal shavings from grinding parts for over a year, limiting how much power the solar wing can produce.
Astronauts Heide Stefanyshyn and Stephen Bowen have at their disposal a putty knife to scrape away the metal grit, wet wipes for cleaning and a grease gun to lubricate the joint.
“We have a little cleaning and greasing to do, to see if we can make it rotate smoother,” “We’re going to try to make it come back to life.” Said one of the astronauts.
Each spacewalk will be of approximately 6.5 hours that means 6 long hours of hard cleaning in the void of space none stop.
What was the longest, hardest or the most existing cleaning job you have ever faced?
