Environmentally Preferable Cleaners

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Steve Ashkin, Ashkin Group:
New Information On Environmentally Preferable Cleaners
Scot Case, Center for a New American Dream:
Helping You Clean Green: Power in Groups
Dmitriy Nikolayev, MA Operational Services Division:
Cleaning the Green Way: Massachusetts Experience Purchasing Green Cleaners
Useful Websites & Information Resources:   (provided by the speakers)
The Ashkin Group http://www.AshkinGroup.com/ The Center for a New American Dream - Safer Cleaning Products http://www.newdream.org/clean The Center for a New American Dream - Institutional Purchasing Program http://www.newdream.org/procure/ Massachusetts EPP Website http://www.mass.gov/epp Comm-PASS - Massachusetts Operational Services Division Website http://www.Comm-PASS.com Western Regional Pollution Prevention Network (WRPPN) - Janitorial Products Pollution Prevention Project http://www.wrppn.org/Janitorial/jp4.cfm EPA's Environmentally Preferable Purchasing Program http://www.epa.gov/oppt/epp The Environmental Choice Program http://www.environmentalchoice.ca/ http://www.environmentalchoice.ca/index.cfm?fuseaction=main.dspProducts&Cat=5 INFORM - "Cleaning for Health" Report (86 pp. $30; $15 for government/nonprofit) http://www.informinc.org/cleanforhealth.php California Regulation for Reducing Volatile Organic Compound Emissions from Consumer Products http://www.arb.ca.gov/consprod/regs/Cpreg.doc Eco-labels: The Consumers Union Guide to Environmental Labels http://www.eco-labels.org/ EPA's Office of Children's Health Protection http://yosemite.epa.gov/ochp/ochpweb.nsf/homepage Children's Health Environmental Coalition http://www.checnet.org/ Scorecard - About the Chemicals http://www.scorecard.org/chemical-profiles/ Beyond Pesticides http://www.beyondpesticides.org/main.html Surface Solutions Laboratory - Janitorial Product Evaluation for Environmentally Preferable Purchasing http://www.cleanersolutions.org/Research7.htm Environmental Purchasing at Vail Reorts-see Case Study on page 6-6 http://peakstoprairies.org/p2bande/skigreen/ch%206%20purchasing.pdf Arapahoe Basin (A-Basin) Alternative Cleaning Supplies-see Case Study on page 10-10 http://peakstoprairies.org/p2bande/skigreen/Ch%2010%20Bldgs.pdf Cleaning Products and Work-related Asthma http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=12762081 Massachusetts Statewide Contract for Environmentally Preferable Cleaning Products http://www.comm-pass.com/Comm-PASS/Scripts/xdoc_view.idc?doc_id=014080 Environmentally Preferable Janitorial Products: Issues and Opportunities http://www.informinc.org/PPRJanitorial.pdf

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