When shopping for cleaning products for your home here is a list of Green Seal approved products to consider…………… All products have been tested for safety within the home as well as on the environment. Visit their website noted below for their standards for each product category. List includes name of product as well as where it can be purchased. Reduce the chemicals used in your home by using these products.
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Green Seal is a non-profit organization devoted to environmental standard setting, product certification, and public education. Green Seal’s mission is to work towards environmental sustainability by identifying and promoting environmentally responsible products, purchasing, and production. Through its standard setting, certification and education programs, Green Seal:
• identifies products that are designed and manufactured in an environmentally responsible manner;
• offers scientific analyses to help consumers make educated purchasing decisions regarding environmental impacts;
• ensures consumers that any product bearing the Green Seal Certification Mark has earned the right to use it; and
• encourages manufacturers to develop new products that are significantly less damaging to the environment than their predecessors.
The intent of Green Seal’s environmental requirements is to reduce, to the extent technologically and economically feasible, the environmental impacts associated with the manufacture, use and disposal of products. Set on a category-by-category basis, Environmental Standards focus on significant opportunities to reduce a product’s environmental impact.
Green Seal offers certification to all products covered by its Standards. Manufacturers may submit their products for evaluation by Green Seal. Those which comply with Green Seal’s requirements may be authorized to use the Green Seal Certification Mark on products and in product advertising. Manufacturers authorized to use the Green Seal Certification Mark on their product are subject to an ongoing program of testing, inspection, and enforcement.
For additional information on Green Seal or any of its programs, contact:
Green Seal
1001 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Suite 827
Washington, DC 20036-5525
(202) 872-6400
www.greenseal.org
Green Seal is a non-profit organization devoted to environmental standard setting, product certification, and public education. Green Seal’s mission is to work towards environmental sustainability by identifying and promoting environmentally responsible products, purchasing, and production. Through its standard setting, certification and education programs, Green Seal:
• identifies products that are designed and manufactured in an environmentally responsible manner;
• offers scientific analyses to help consumers make educated purchasing decisions regarding environmental impacts;
• ensures consumers that any product bearing the Green Seal Certification Mark has earned the right to use it; and
• encourages manufacturers to develop new products that are significantly less damaging to the environment than their predecessors.
The intent of Green Seal’s environmental requirements is to reduce, to the extent technologically and economically feasible, the environmental impacts associated with the manufacture, use and disposal of products. Set on a category-by-category basis, Environmental Standards focus on significant opportunities to reduce a product’s environmental impact.
Green Seal offers certification to all products covered by its Standards. Manufacturers may submit their products for evaluation by Green Seal. Those which comply with Green Seal’s requirements may be authorized to use the Green Seal Certification Mark on products and in product advertising. Manufacturers authorized to use the Green Seal Certification Mark on their product are subject to an ongoing program of testing, inspection, and enforcement.
For additional information on Green Seal or any of its programs, contact:
Green Seal
1001 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Suite 827
Washington, DC 20036-5525
(202) 872-6400
www.greenseal.org
