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.
Our proposed certification standard for trash bags and can liners recognizes products that use less virgin plastic while maintaining top performance.
Our newly expanded prohibition on all PFAS in certified cleaning and personal care products promotes safer options for consumers and recognizes industry leaders who are taking important steps to protect human health and reduce environmental pollution.
Healthy Schools Campaign (HSC) and Green Seal launched a pilot standard for healthy and sustainable school facilities that focuses on measures that can make a big difference without major capital investments.
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.
We are proposing a new prohibition on per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances in certified cleaning and personal care products.
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.
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.
Our standards address the most significant health impacts across the product life cycle for which there are known and feasible safer alternatives.
We finalized key updates to our Environmental Innovation Standard to expand the program’s ability to promote market transformation and ensure measurable health and environmental impact reductions.
We developed a health-protective framework for alcohol-based hand sanitizer certification to provide purchasers and consumers a simple way choose safer and effective products.
We’re thrilled to introduce an agile process that will allow us to quickly incorporate non-substantiative changes into our standards: Quarterly Corrections and Clarifications Reports.
ABCO Products applied for our Environmental Innovation certification for their NaturaYarn mop heads.
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.
We now allow titanium dioxide as an ingredient in enzyme-based cleaning products that meet our standard criteria.
America has a paper waste problem. The paper that we recycle shouldn’t be sitting in landfills – but it will continue to pile up unless we choose paper products made from recycled material.