Environmentally Preferable Cleaners

The webinar included the following presentations:

Steve Ashkin, Ashkin Group:
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