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Green Organizations And Information

Below are links leading to you Green Organizations that monitor or set guidelines for Green Products. There are also links that lead to More Green Information Resources.

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Green Organizations

Cleangredients.Org (CleanGredients®) is a Green

Organization project of GreenBlue® and is being developed through a multi-stakeholder coalition of participants from government entities, environmental organizations, industry associations, cleaning product formulators and distributors, and chemical manufacturers and suppliers.

They are working to shift the direction of industrial and institutional (I&I) cleaning product development toward products that are benign with respect to human and ecological health and safety.

The Biodegradable Products Institute (BPI) is a professional association of key individuals and groups from government, industry and academia. These Green Organizations promote the use, and recycling of EPA, in the Safer Detergent Stewardship Initiative.

EPA Design For the Environment Label (DfE). This EPA program has reached more than 200,000 business facilities and approximately 2 million workers. In 2008, DfE reduced the use of chemicals of concern by approximately 330 million pounds.

Green Seal certifies everything from coffee filters to air chillers. The green seal appears on products found in stores such as Office Depot, Whole Foods, and Lowe's Home Improvement stores. Discover the power of the seal.

Founded in 1989, Green Seal provides science-based environmental certification standards that are credible, transparent, and essential in an increasingly educated and competitive marketplace and improve quality of life.

GreenerChoices.org

GreenGuard Environmental Institute Initiates Comprehensive Health-Based Product Certification Pilot Programs. New proposed product certification significantly expands chemical emissions and content criteria to curb human exposure to harmful chemicals from products used in multiple environments.

More Information On Green Organizations

HouseKeeping Channel.com

ISSA - Guide To Cleaning Products

ISSA - What Is Green Cleaning? Any discussion of green cleaning should start with a working definition of the topic. We prefer the definition that is based on former U.S. President Clinton’s Executive Order 13101:

Green cleaning means the use of those products and services that have a lesser or reduced impact on human health and the environment when compared with competing products or services that serve the same purpose.