Green Seal
What is GREEN SEAL?
Green Seal is a non-profit organization that works with industry and stakeholders to set environmental standards for products and services.
A growing number of governments and corporations are now specifying in their procurement policies cleaning and other products that are Green Seal™ certified or meet Green standards. If you don't have products that are certified as meeting these standards, it will be very difficult to sell to these entities.
GREEN SEAL Standards Affect Our Industry
Cleaning/degreasing agents (GS-34)
http://www.greenseal.org/certification/standards/cleaning-degreasing.cfm
Green procurement criteria (GS-38)
http://www.greenseal.org/certification/standards/criteria_procurement.pdf
Green facilities operation and maintenance (GS-39)
http://www.greenseal.org/certification/standards/criteria_om.pdf
Industrial and institutional cleaners (GS-37)
http://www.greenseal.org/certification/standards/gs37.pdf
Industrial & institutional floor-care products. (GS-40)
http://www.greenseal.org/certification/standards/gs40.pdf
New standard for hand cleaners and hand soaps (GS-41)
http://www.greenseal.org/certification/standards/gs41-handcleaners.pdf
Standard for cleaning services expected in Summer 2006
http://www.greenseal.org/certification/proposed_env_stds_for_cleaning_svcs.pdf
WHAT
IS "CERTIFICATION"?
First a "standard" is set for a product category. This
standard reflects industry and stakeholder consensus on the
criteria that define an environmentally preferable product.
For "certification," product evaluations are conducted
using a life-cycle approach to ensure that all significant
environmental impacts of a product are considered, from raw
materials extraction
through manufacturing to use and disposal. Wherever possible,
Green Seal™ standards cite international test methods for
evaluating product
performance or environmental attributes such as toxicity,
and its procedures conform to international standards for ecolabelling.
For more information about Green Seal™, click here.