Green Cleaning Products

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Green Cleaning Products
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Risks

• 90 percent of their days indoors
• air pollutants indoors can be 2-5 times, and
  occasionally up to 100 times, higher than outdoor
  levels.
• Headaches, dizziness, fatigue

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What is Green?

• The concept of "GREEN" is rooted in the idea of
  moving away from toxic and particularly hazardous
  petrochemical products towards  natural,
  bio-based ones

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GS-37

• GS-37 is applicable for all purpose, bathroom,
  and glass cleaners. It establishes criteria for
  13 factors, such as toxic compounds, carcinogens,
  skin and eye irritants, and

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Benefits

• reduces your agency's environmental footprint
• Green purchasing is an important element of an
  Environmental Management System (EMS)
• helps create a more sizable market for cost
  effective high performance green products

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Benefits cont.

• Most importantly green cleaning products promote
  a healthier working environment and improve the
  safety of janitorial workers

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Case Study 1

• Harvard 2004
• Green cleaning products introduced to custodial
  staff
• micro fiber cloths and HEPA vacuums, in the hopes
  of producing less waste in their process
• training covered general cleaning procedures and
  cultural shift issues relating to green cleaning

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Case Study 2

• Divinity School at Harvard
• Facilities Superintendent Roy Lauridsen
• low-energy hand dryers, HEPA filtration vacuum
  cleaners, micro fiber cloths and mops, dilution
  control systems, and Green Seal certified or
  recommended products