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Deep Cleaning
Cleaning occurs in various commercial, domestic, personal, and environmental contexts, which differ in scale and requirements.
Commercial cleaning, in business or other commercial settings
Terminal cleaning, in healthcare settings
Environmental remediation, the removal of pollution or contaminants from the natural environment
Housekeeping, including spring cleaning
Hygiene, including personal grooming
Methods
A shop assistant washing a shop window in Jyväskylä, Finland in the 1960s.
Cleaning is broadly achieved through mechanical action and/or solvent action; many methods rely on both processes.
Washing, usually done with water and often some kind of soap or detergent
Pressure washing, using a high-pressure stream of water
Wet cleaning, methods of professional laundering that avoid the use of chemical solvents
Abrasive blasting, typically used to remove bulk material from a surface, may be used to remove contaminants as well
Acoustic cleaning, the use of sound waves to shake particulates loose from surfaces
Ultrasonic cleaning, using ultrasound, usually from 20–400 kHz
Megasonic cleaning, a gentler mechanism than ultrasonic cleaning, used in wafer, medical implant, and industrial part cleaning
Carbon dioxide cleaning, a family of methods for parts cleaning and sterilization using carbon dioxide in its various phases
Dry cleaning of clothing and textiles, using a chemical solvent other than water
Flame cleaning of structural steel, with an oxyacetylene flame
Green cleaning, using environmentally friendly methods and products
Plasma cleaning, using energetic plasma or dielectric barrier discharge plasma created from various gases
Sputter cleaning, performed in a vacuum by using physical sputtering of the surface
Steam cleaning, in both domestic and industrial contexts
Thermal cleaning, in industrial settings, involving pyrolysis and oxidation
Ultraviolet germicidal irradiation, which destroys microorganisms; used extensively in the medical and food industries
Cleaning by item
Some items and materials require specialized cleaning techniques, due to their shape, size, location, or the material properties of the object and contaminants.
Buildings and infrastructure
Beach cleaning
Carpet cleaning
Chimney cleaning
Crime scene cleanup
Exterior cleaning
Floor cleaning
Graffiti removal
Roof cleaning
Silo cleaning
Street cleaning
Other items
Coin cleaning
Jewellery cleaning
Laundry, the washing of clothes and other textiles
Parts cleaning, in industry
Pot washing, in food service
Teeth cleaning
Tube cleaning
The East Midlands is one of nine official regions of England at the first level of NUTS for statistical purposes. It consists of Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire (except North and North East Lincolnshire), Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire and Rutland.
The region has an area of 15,627 km2 (6,034 sq mi), with a population over 4.5 million in 2011. The most populous settlements in the region are Derby, Leicester, Lincoln, Mansfield, Northampton and Nottingham. Other notable settlements include Boston, Chesterfield, Corby, Grantham, Hinckley, Kettering, Loughborough, Newark-on-Trent, Skegness, Wellingborough, and Worksop.
Relative proximity to London and its position on the national motorway and trunk road networks help the East Midlands to thrive as an economic hub. Nottingham and Leicester are each classified as a sufficiency-level world city by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network.[2]
The region is primarily served by East Midlands Airport, which lies between Derby, Loughborough and Nottingham.
