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The Dirty Math

  • By Tanya Lewis
  • 01 Jul, 2018

But these disposable pads aren’t recyclable, and there’s no crafty use for a dirty mop pad.

Remember those 45 million mops I wrote about last week? And how much it costs to keep buying pads for them just to clean your floors once a week? Let me tell you another dirty little truth about those pads:  They are filling up our landfills.

A Nielson report shows that just for the wet-mop pads (not even counting the dry ones!), over 1 BILLION pads, along with the chemical cleaning solutions, have gone into our landfills already, and an estimated 15 MILLION MORE are getting thrown away each year.  

Just imagine how much space 1,000,000,000 pads would take up...

  • Laid end-to-end, those pads would stretch 189,393 miles.
  • They would go around the Earth at the Equator 7 ½ times.
  • They would reach over ¾ of the distance to the moon.
  • Stacked regularly, like they are in the box, those 1 billion pads would reach the height of Mt. Everest – over 350 times.

Many communities recycle, helping us to reduce lanfill space needed.  And the internet is full of “upcyle” and DIY projects to keep and reuse things that would otherwise get thrown away, which is great for our planet and a fun thing to do in your spare time.  

The bottom line is that we all have to clean our homes. But now you don’t have to make a mess in our landfills just to get it done. The Green Glider Mop Pad not only cleans better than disposables, it is reusable and keeps trash out of our landfills.

Head over to Walmart to get yours, and help End the Disposable Trend!


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Simply put, people who Reuse and Recycle are living Greener than those who don’t. Green Glider mop pads will dramatically reduce the waste incurred from discarding these disposable refills into our already saturated landfills, and lower the overall carbon footprint by requiring fewer trips to the market. Over 100 Million disposable mop pads are buried beneath out planet’s surface each year, i.e. well over 1 Billion disposables tossed in to our landfills since the dawn of disposable refill mop pads about 10 years ago.

The idea is to manage our carbon footprint. Everything we do (or don’t do) has an impact on our planet – our carbon impact. However, there’s a lot more to the footprint than just carbon. What we must do is think of our overall “footprint”, and try to tread as lightly as we can. Here is one way we can eliminate unnecessary waste from our everyday habits. Every little bit helps, and with the use of Green Glider reusable mop pads, we can start to make a significant change if we all work together to End the Disposable Trend!
By Tanya Lewis 23 Jul, 2018
The Green Glider Company will be researching ways to recycle worn out Green Glider mop pads. Instead of consumers discarding them, we are designing a program in which depleted Green Glider mop pads can be sent back to us to be recycled instead of being thrown away.

We are very proud to be in the process of this noble cause and look forward to offering this extended “Green” program to complement our already environmentally beneficial product. So when skeptics blurt out “well, you have to throw it away eventually”, we can say, “actually, no you don’t”!
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For centuries, moms everywhere have been creating solutions to their everyday needs. And increasingly those inventions are ending up on television, in stores, and in homes across the nation. As showcased on Fox News  recently, that's precisely what lead Tanya Lewis to invent Green Glider mop head replacement.

Lewis has always looked for ways to save money, "During my childhood money was always tight. We re-used everything and nothing went to waste. Back then society was not taught to feel euphoric about throwing something away immediately after just one use. Now, as a mother, I’ve retained the values from my childhood years by reusing...and reducing unnecessary waste in our home by being creative and smart."

Determined to find a solution that was reusable, effective and saved money to End the Disposable Trend®, she realized the marketplace had little to offer. Microfiber pads picked up dirt but didn't absorb. Shammy was great at absorbing but just pushed the dirt around. But put them both together and you've got a patented solution's a proven winner.

Tens of millions of consumers already own one of these all-in-one mop systems that sadly lack the most important cleaning feature: an adjustable, reusable mop pad with top quality, durability and most importantly, absorption. Consumers love these new mop systems that have taken the floor cleaning industry by storm, but these devices aren’t what actually cleans your floor. It’s the “mop pad” that does the cleaning. Lewis has invented the eco-friendly mop pad so consumers can upgrade the mop they’ve already got. As sales rapidly climb, Lewis excitedly extols the benefits of being the creative mastermind behind Green Glider, the hottest new household brand to “Sweep the Nation!”

Now, by signing with Wow! Is Me, Lewis is taking her company to retail markets and increased word of mouth as mom's everywhere discover Green Glider. Wow! Is Me founder Adryenn Ashley was a fan of Green Glider before taking them on as a client, "As a mom, I'm hyper vigilant about my environment, using only organic all natural products, and with Green Glider, floors are so easy to keep clean that I don't freak out when my son picks up a piece of food off the floor and pops it in his mouth before I can stop him."

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