Mermaid Cleaning Services and No BuTTs are pleased to announce that Victorian based Eco-Pole Ashtray clients can now have their Eco-Pole Wall & Post-mounted Ashtrays and Freestanding Bollard Ashtrays emptied and maintained at their preferred frequencies by Mermaid Cleaning Services.
Established in 1984, Mermaid Cleaning Services (a division of Mermaid Property Services) has long been recognised for providing a quality product & high level of customer satisfaction in the cleaning services sector and has grown to become one of Victoria's leading provider of corporate and commercial cleaning and property maintenance services.
"The majority of Eco-Pole Ashtray clients are ready, willing and able to service their own ashtrays - and the process is quick, easy and only takes a few seconds." said Jack Jacobson, No BuTTs Managing Director.
"But as our list of corporate and business client installations grows, many of them would prefer to have their Eco-Pole Ashtrays serviced and emptied on a regular basis by professional service providers - and Mermaid Cleaning Services fits the bill perfectly."
"As more and more of our clients request an ashtray emptying and cleaning service it makes perfect sense to utilise Mermaid's established cleaning service infrastructure - and with over 400 staff and contractors across Victoria, we can now offer our clients unparalleled service and efficiency in terms of their specific requirements."
"It has always been an issue that we didn’t know how to tackle. Our staff were spending more and more time having to pick up discarded cigarette butts one by one from around our clients locations so we looked for a solution that would assist our clients to minimise the problem of cigarette butt litter at their locations." said Ashleigh Israel of Mermaid Property Services.
"As soon as we discovered No BuTTs and their brilliantly designed range of Eco-Pole Wall & Post-mounted Ashtrays, we knew that this was the perfect solution."
"Let's put it like this. Our clients now have a choice." said Ashleigh.
"They can either have our cleaning staff spend 20 or more minutes collecting all the cigarette butts that their staff, visitors, customers, members, passengers, etc have littered outside and around their property, or we can install one or more Eco-Pole Ashtrays in the appropriate locations and pretty much solve the problem."
"Installing Eco-Pole Ashtrays not only gives their smokers the ability to easily do the right thing with their butts, and thereby virtually eliminates their butt litter - but also means that our staff aren’t wasting any more time picking up all those butts - and their time can be redirected to other duties, therefore increasing their productivity - and that saves time and money."
"When you consider that Eco-Pole Ashtrays virtually eliminate any excuse for cigarette butt littering - and it only takes our staff around 10 seconds to empty our clients Eco-Pole Ashtrays, it's just a no brainer for everyone involved."
"Apart from that," said No BuTTs National Accounts Manager Terri-Anne Lee, "Cigarette butt litter outside businesses and premises is extremely unsightly and degrades the appearance of every location that suffers from cigarette butt litter - and it's just so unecessary."
"So it's very exciting for us and our clients that Mermaid Cleaning Services can provide our Eco-Pole Ashtray clients with a virtually unlimited range of servicing and cleaning options that suits their size, location and smoking rates." said Terri-Anne.
"Some of our smaller clients might only need a fortnightly emptying service but many of our larger corporate clients like convention centres, sport arenas and retail facilities require daily maintenance of their Eco-Pole Ashtrays, and Mermaid can easily handle whatever each client prefers."
Going Smoke Free
"We also have some clients that are going or have gone Smoke Free, and completely ban smoking on their premises." said Asleigh.
"The key to going Smoke Free the right way is to deal with the reality that their smokers will simply go somewhere else to smoke - and that just makes their cigarette butt litter someone else's problem - usually their neighbours."
"That is completely unacceptable, both from an environmental perspective and also with regard to the damage done to their corporate image when their smokers litter their butts, especially in public - because people do notice, but the solution is simple."
"Supplying our No BuTTs logo printed Personal Ashtrays to our Smoke Free clients eliminates that problem, displays a high standard of social and environmental responsibilty, and also provides Mermaid Cleaning Services with outstanding and very visible eco-friendly advertising."