{"id":8262,"date":"2010-08-05T11:03:30","date_gmt":"2010-08-05T16:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.sustainablog.org\/?p=8262"},"modified":"2010-08-05T11:03:30","modified_gmt":"2010-08-05T16:03:30","slug":"green-cleaning-design-for-the-environment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/articles\/green-cleaning-design-for-the-environment\/","title":{"rendered":"Make Sure Your Cleaning is Really Green: Design for the Environment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/media.sundancechannel.com\/UPLOADS\/blog\/wordpress\/images\/2010\/08\/design-for-the-environment.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-40219\" src=\"http:\/\/media.sundancechannel.com\/UPLOADS\/blog\/wordpress\/images\/2010\/08\/design-for-the-environment.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"124\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re shopping for energy efficient appliances, you know to look for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.energystar.gov\/\">ENERGY STAR<\/a> label. If you&#8217;re looking for bath fixtures, toilets, or shower heads, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epa.gov\/WaterSense\/\">Water Sense<\/a> gives you insight into the most water-efficient products. And the new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epeat.net\/\">EPEAT<\/a> label provides a standard for multiple environmental attributes of home electronics.<\/p>\n<p>These government-created or supported certifications help with bigger-ticket purchases&#8230; but what about day-to-day items that can impact you home environment (as well as the natural environment), and possibly your family&#8217;s health? Turns out there&#8217;s a certification program for those kinds of products, too. <!--more-->The Environmental Protection Agencies <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epa.gov\/dfe\/index.htm\">Design for the Environment<\/a> program has largely flown under the radar since its founding in 1992, and the launch of its certification label in 1997; in those eighteen years, though, DfE has certified <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epa.gov\/dfe\/pubs\/projects\/formulat\/formpart.htm\">more than 2000 industrial and consumer products<\/a> for high health, safety, and environmental standards, including cleaning products, inks, car care, and odor removal products.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read more about the EPA&#8217;s <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sundancechannel.com\/sunfiltered\/2010\/08\/green-cleaning-design-for-the-environment\/\"><strong>Design for the Environment program<\/strong><\/a><strong> at SUNfiltered. And if you&#8217;re peeved about chemicals in cleaning products, check out David Quilty&#8217;s commentary (ok, rant) on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thegoodhuman.com\/2010\/08\/05\/why-call-it-cleaning-if-we-just-spray-toxic-chemicals-all-over-the-house\/\">the contradiction of cleaning with toxins<\/a>&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Green cleaning products? Yeah, we&#8217;ve got &#8217;em&#8230; from brands like <a href=\"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/categories\/eco-home\/natural-cleaning-natural-cleaning-products-natural-cleaners\/green-brands\/seventh-generation\">Seventh Generation<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/categories\/eco-home\/natural-cleaning-natural-cleaning-products-natural-cleaners\/green-brands\/ecover\">Ecover<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/categories\/eco-home\/natural-cleaning-natural-cleaning-products-natural-cleaners\/green-brands\/bi-o-kleen\">Bi-O-Kleen<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re shopping for energy efficient appliances, you know to look for the ENERGY STAR label. If you&#8217;re looking for bath fixtures, toilets, or shower heads, Water Sense gives you&nbsp;[ &hellip; ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":40219,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,79],"tags":[2025,4550,129,75],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Design for the Environment: Certified Green Cleaning Products<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"How do you know the green cleaning products you buy are really safe? 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