Of course, toxins are biodegradable but many toxic household cleaners do not degrade very quickly. Children or adults who touch household surfaces and floors then put their hands in their mouths, eat food directly from a counter, or put household objects in their hands risk ingesting small amounts of harmful chemicals. The fumes from toxic cleaning fluids play a major role in indoor air pollution. The EPA estimates that the air inside your home can be 2 to 5 times more polluted than the air just outside your window.
Toxins in your home affect your community. The manufacturing process for these chemicals can be a significant source of air and water pollution, contribute to global warming, or endanger the health of others that must come in contact with these substances in order to bring these products to market.
Buy less toxic products that degrade more quickly. Buy paper products that are not whitened with chlorine bleach. Use energy efficient cleaning tools and household products.
Purchase from responsible manufacturers. Green & Clean chooses products made by leaders in household cleaning and safeguarding the environment. We choose to use products that can make a huge impact in pollution.
One manufacturer, Seventh Generation, estimates that if every family in America replaced one roll of 180 count virgin fiber paper towels with 100% recycled paper towels we would save 3.7 million cubic feet of landfill space, avoid 89,400 pounds of pollution and save 1.4 million trees. If every family in the U.S. replaced just one 32 ounce bottle of petroleum based cleaner with an equally effective plant based cleaner and we'd save 6, 800 barrels of oil.
Another manufacturer, Ecover, is a thought leader in the cleaning products market. Ecover has created an awe inspiring manufacturing facility based on their philosophy of producing products in a way that is ecologically, economically and socially responsible.
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