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1. What is Green Cleaning?

2. What are the benefits of Green Cleaning?

3. What makes Green cleaning products different from traditional cleaners?

4. Who decides if a cleaner can correctly be labeled Green?

5. What ingredients are contained in Brad-David’s green products?

6. How are Brad-David’s products packaged and shipped?

What is Green Cleaning?

Some traditional cleaning products can contain harmful chemicals that contaminate the environment and endanger human health. Implementing "green cleaning" practices can reduce these health, safety, and environmental risks. Green cleaning involves selecting non-traditional cleaning products, using those products properly, and taking appropriate steps to reduce health, safety, and environmental risks while maintaining a satisfactory level of cleaning and disinfecting performance.

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What are the benefits of Green Cleaning?

Green cleaning can help to reduce many of the health, safety, and environmental risks of cleaning product use. Many traditional cleaning products contain harmful chemicals that can have serious adverse effects on users, building occupants, and the environment. Cleaning products can cause harm to the environment during their use, if they are poured down drains, circulated through building ventilation systems, or disposed of outdoors. Possible environmental consequences of cleaning product use include:

• Air pollution

• Bioaccumulation of toxic substances in plants and animals

• Endocrine disruption in wildlife, which reduces the ability to reproduce

• Ozone depletion

• Water pollution

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What makes Green cleaning products different from traditional cleaners?

Green cleaning or environmentally preferable products include products that are certified to contain lower or insignificant amounts of toxic or hazardous chemicals and have reduced or minimal adverse environmental impacts. Unlike traditional cleaners, green cleaning products are:

• designed to be safer for the environment and human health;

• concentrated and formulated specifically for use with cold water;

• free of carcinogens, phosphates, dyes, fragrances, chlorinated solvents and other undesirable ingredients; and

• are safer alternatives to replace hazardous ingredients found in traditional cleaners

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Who decides if a cleaner can correctly be labeled Green?

Currently there are no formal universally-accepted or consensus-based green cleaning standards and this has caused concern among end users, government regulatory agencies and manufacturers. However, guidelines for green purchasing usually require products to carry specific third party certifications – most notably Green Seal, EcoLogo (Environmental Choice), or Design for the Environment (DfE). Brad-David’s is pursuing partnership with the EPA’s Design for the Environment program.

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What ingredients are contained in Brad-David’s green products?

Brad-David’s green cleaning products are designed to contain lower or insignificant amounts of toxic or hazardous chemicals. The firm supports using "benign by design" principles in the design, manufacture, and use of chemicals and chemical processes—a concept known as "green chemistry." The main goal of our green cleaning line is to offer high performance environmentally protective products for home, industrial and institutional custodial applications using ingredients that:

• have minimal presence of or exposure to potentially harmful chemicals

• use renewable resources

• have low VOC content

• have low aquatic toxicity

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How are Brad-David’s products packaged and shipped?

Brad-David’s green cleaning products are packaged and shipped to achieve minimal environmental risks. Brad-David’s green cleaning products are distributed:

• as concentrated formulas

• in efficient packaging

• using packaging and dilution systems designed to reduce exposure to the product

• in recyclable packaging

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