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Cardinal Clean

Cardinal Clean

Stanford Student Housing custodial teams have been using the award-winning Cardinal Clean system to clean and sanitize close to 100 residence halls since its introduction in 2015. Cardinal Clean was more recently introduced to student residents in almost all undergraduate residences laundry rooms.  More machines are being installed on campus for student use.  This initiative makes Stanford the first US campus to offer students access to use this powerful and green cleaning solution for free.

Green, Powerful & Free

Cardinal Clean is Stanford’s free, powerful & green cleaning standard. The Cardinal Clean machine electrifies tap water and oxygen to produce a completely sustainable, safe, and effective multi-purpose disinfectant. 

  • Kills 99.99% of germs, virus, and bacteria for 24 hours after dispensing
  • Turns to regular water after seven days
  • Reduces plastic pollution, hazardous waste disposal, and chemicals into the water system
  • Non-toxic and non-irritant for your health
  • It saves you money because it’s free!
How to Use Cardinal Clean
Put your spray bottle in the sink. Turn on the cold water tap. Flip the switch on. Wait for the light to turn green. Collect your solution. Once full, turn OFF the machine and the cold water tap.

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Let us know how you like Cardinal Clean!
Your feedback will help us make these machines easy to use and available to more students campus-wide. 
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Where can you use Cardinal Clean?

  • Appliances
  • Glass
  • Showers
  • Toilets
  • Countertops 
  • Floors/carpets
  • Sink
  • Furniture
  • High-touch points like your cellphone, light switches and door handles

The Science Behind Cardinal Clean

Cardinal Clean uses ozone, a potent disinfectant that naturally occurs in our environment.  Ozone is stronger than bleach and is often used to disinfect drinking water. The machine intakes oxygen and tap water then applies 4500V of electricity, allowing two-atom oxygen gas to rearrange into three-atom ozone gas to produce the ozone. Because of ozone’s unique structure, it disinfects molecules using radical oxidation instead of traditional oxidation used by chlorine bleach.

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The Cardinal Clean solution quickly kills odors, stains, viruses, and bacteria, including E. coli, Salmonella, MRSA, C-Difficile, and hundreds of other common germs? It is  3,000 times faster and much stronger than bleach and chlorine-based cleaners without exposing you to toxins, carcinogens, or chemical residue.