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Friday 7 March 2008

Cleaning Equipment: Brooms






Cleaning Equipment:
Brooms by Europa Pirate



Starting with the top of each room, most likely there will either be dust, cobwebs, or insect cocoons that will need removal from the walls and corners. For walls, a clean natural broom is recommended. This broom should only be used for this sort of “Seasonal Cleaning” and not to be substituted for a random, worn broom perhaps found in your garage or basement.

For your needs, this information should assist with the purchase of
Your New Broom(s):

When purchasing a broom either for the first time or recently, within the past few years, you are bound to notice a pleasing surprise. Not only are there the availability of the standard looking, natural material brooms, which have been seen in all Western Euro/American Homes unchanged for decades, yet the are a myriad of sleek, stylist, or just plain silly ornamented brooms that will make this chore much more lively.

Your broom should be constructed of renewable materials, hopefully from a company that guarantees its labor/manufacturing doesn’t violate any deforestation/eco practices and human rights.



Your choice of broom may be constructed from
any single or a combination of the following:



Corn and Rattan

CORN
(*Additional reading: the three sisters growing system)
Corn has been a staple of Native Americans/Tribal Peoples
As food for animals and humans
Now, Corn/Maize is also used as
Biofuel
(bio-organic fuel)

RATTAN
(Palm family)
Fast growing, eco-friendly alternative
to deforestation practices of logging


Palmyra plant
and the select/superior part of this plant
which are
the Bassine/Bassine Fibers


Tampico
(desert climate edible plant,
cream to off-white colored fibers in there natural state)
Purchase only if grown in sustainable farming.
Do NOT purchase product reaped wild or from Preserve Lands.


Horsehair
(if Company has been backed/inspected by Cruelty-Free 3rd Party Inspectors)
Horse Hair that has been Cut/Trimmed
Without Harm to animal)

Sotol
(Yucca Fiber)
*Pollination in nature requires a moth for Yucca plant reproduction

Sorghum
(Originally from Egypt)
a.k.a. Broomcom (grass)
*Avoid
red-brown color; the inferior material


Bear Grass
Fire-resistant plant (not grass)
growing just above timberline, sub-alpine, and coastal regions


and Union Fiber
(the combination of natural fibers)




The above information should clearly detail the options for avoiding the purchase of any un-natural, petro-chemical sweeping device.