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.
Determine if Green Seal Certification Makes Sense for Your Business
On October 12, 2023, Green Seal’s Vice President of Certification, Sara Risley joined Softly Solutions’ Mollie Hughes for a webinar to discuss the value of certification for businesses, purchasers, and consumers, and how to find Green Seal-certified products.
Proposing a New Leadership Standard for Trash Bags & Can Liners
Our proposed certification standard for trash bags and can liners recognizes products that use less virgin plastic while maintaining top performance.
The Green Seal Compass: Ensuring Clean Water
Water pollution is a global issue and a continuing challenge in the U.S. The Green Seal mark helps buyers find products that are verified to be safer for aquatic ecosystems and to preserve our water quality.
Eligible for Certification: Spray-Applied Microbial Cleaners
We made important improvements to our standard criteria for microbial-based cleaning products to better recognize leadership in this product category. Now, product manufacturers with spray-applied microbial cleaners can demonstrate that their products are formulated to be healthier, safer options for buyers.
The Green Seal Compass: Minimizing Waste
Preventing and minimizing waste is a critical goal for shifting to a low impact economy. With improved product design, less shipping of water, greater use of recovered materials, and well-performing, long-lasting products, we can reduce the waste that is so costly to our society and ecosystems.
The Green Seal Compass: Protecting Human Health
Our standards address the most significant health impacts across the product life cycle for which there are known and feasible safer alternatives.
Kaivac Univac and AutoVac Stretch – Innovation Criteria
Kaivac, Inc submitted two applications for our Environmental Innovation certification for their Univac and AutoVac Stretch products.
Our Standard Means Uncompromising Cleaning Performance
We often hear the question: how do I know green cleaning products work as effectively as conventional ones? Here’s a window into our performance requirements.
USC Hotel: Why We Pursued Green Seal Certification
USC University Communications professional, Ron Mackovich, shares USC Hotel’s journey to getting Green Seal-certified and the big impacts that small changes can make.
BMS: An Interview with Green Seal CEO Doug Gatlin
BMS sat down with our CEO, Doug Gatlin, to discuss green cleaning, sustainability in the janitorial industry, and why certifications matter now more than ever.
Kittrich Shares What Green Seal Means for Consumers
Kittrich’s Corporation Formulator, Rachel Bolin, discusses the company’s commitment to safer and effective products, and why they partner with Green Seal.
BMS Cleans Over 100 Million Square Feet of Space
BMS Building Maintenance Services’ President, Michael Doherty, shares why sustainability is important to the janitorial company and how Green Seal certification demonstrates their commitment to transparency and accountability.
Your Feedback Is Key to the Success of Our Standards
We have published dozens of science-based standards and certified thousands of products, but we couldn’t do it without stakeholder input.