Does a product with the EPA's Design for the Environment logo qualify for this credit?
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EBOM-2009 IEQc3.3: Green Cleaning—Purchase of Sustainable Cleaning Products and Materials
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Tristan Roberts
RepresentativeVermont House of Representatives
LEEDuser Expert
11477 thumbs up
March 11, 2011 - 12:10 am
Not according to the credit language. What's the product?
Geoffrey Tomlinson
Vaha Sustainable Energy61 thumbs up
March 11, 2011 - 3:19 pm
Many of the Staples Brand "Sustainable Earth" products have an EPA Design for the Environment Logo, but are not specifically Green Seal Certified.
Sustainable Earth by Staples® Graffiti Remover #99 is one of the products I am looking at.
Jenny Carney
Vice PresidentWSP
LEEDuser Expert
657 thumbs up
March 11, 2011 - 3:50 pm
For what it's worth, my toxicologist sister thinks the DfE program makes a lot more sense for minimizing toxicity in cleaning product formulas than a lot of the programs that are cited in the credit language.
I'm not sure that DfE existed prior to the establishment of the current requirements, but I think it is in the proposed language for the next version of LEED. In any event, you can either try in the submittal process to present this as an alternative compliance project (with fingers crossed), or use a CIR to get official advance clearance for the approach. The latter is recommended if your are really depending on the credit.