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Defining Sustainability Leadership for Sanitary Paper Products

To prevent significant deforestation and climate change impacts from towel and tissue production, we collaborated with leading brands, retailers, and purchasers to create a modern leadership standard for tree-free and recycled content sanitary paper products that never use virgin tree fiber.

Understanding Ingredients: A Guide to Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS)

PFAS are a group of synthetic chemicals known for their persistence in the environment and their impacts on human health. Discover their uses and impacts, as well as tips for avoiding PFAS in household products.

Help Us Define a Safer and More Sustainable Product

Apply to join our volunteer committees to help us define the core elements of safer, more sustainable products. Industry alignment on these elements is the first step toward forming a meaningful, marketable category of safer and more sustainable everyday products.

Understanding Ingredients: A Guide to Polyethylene Glycol (PEG)

Polyethylene glycol (PEG) is a versatile and widely used compound. Discover where it’s commonly found and whether you should be concerned when you see PEG on product labels.

Understanding Ingredients: A Guide to Fragrance in Consumer Product

“Fragrance” is a common ingredient on consumer product labels that indicates the product is scented. Explore the composition of fragrances, their applications, safety considerations, and ways to minimize your exposure.

Eliminating PFAS from the Supply Chain for Consumer Products

We are committed to eliminating PFAS from the supply chain for consumer products. In our latest action to prevent any more harm from these toxic “forever chemicals,” we are proposing to prohibit any PFAS in Green Seal-certified paints and coatings, floor care products, adhesives, and degreasers.

Understanding Ingredients: A Guide to Formaldehyde

Formaldehyde is a chemical with widespread applications that exposes humans to significant health risks. Explore how formaldehyde is used today and how to find safer and more sustainable products.

Cutting Through Confusion: How Green Seal Simplifies Sustainable Shopping

Consumers want to understand what is in the products they are buying. Here’s how Green Seal is helping the industry advance toward a healthier product future.

How to Get Green Certified

Follow our straightforward certification process and prove to your customers that your products meet a high standard for protecting people and the planet with uncompromising performance.

Announcing Green Seal’s 2024 Impact Report

This year at Green Seal we dove deep into defining safer and more sustainable products. Today, on Earth Day, we are illuminating the comprehensive nature of this work in our 2024 Impact Report.

Asian Paints on Integrating Sustainability into Business Objectives

Asian Paints Limited’s Senior Vice President of Technology, Rajeev Kumar Goel, shares how sustainability fits into their company goals and why they partner with Green Seal.

CleanGo GreenGo on Creating Effective, Greener Solutions

CleanGo GreenGo’s CEO and President, Anthony Sarvucci, shares why sustainability is important to the cleaning company and why they partner with Green Seal.

Marcal Paper on Providing Quality Paper Products with Minimized Ecological Footprints

Marcal Paper’s Corporate Marketing Manager, Jon Thomson, shares what sustainability features customers are looking for today and why they partner with Green Seal.

Green Seal-Certified Products Just Got More Valuable in Federal Purchasing

Green Seal-certified products became more valuable to federal purchasers when the Biden-Harris administration announced they must buy products that are free of PFAS and specified Green Seal-certified cleaning products and hand soaps.

Mum & You on Reducing Their Environmental Impact Without Compromise

Mum & You’s Chief Innovation Officer, Catherine Stopp, shares what sustainability features customers are looking for and what’s next for the environmentally-conscious company.