Does anyone have experience with using green cleaning products that meet the Green Seal Standard for Residential Cleaning Products?
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Trista Brown
Project DirectorWSP USA
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November 7, 2013 - 12:46 pm
Hi Martha,
Are you asking about the effectiveness of GS certified residential cleaning products? Or are you asking for examples of available products? I don’t have any experience to share, but am really curious if others do since I’d purchase some myself if people like them!
Trista
Martha Norbeck
PresidentC-Wise Design and Consulting
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November 20, 2013 - 2:33 pm
Hi Trista,
Thank you for responding. I am working on a very small library project and to ask them to use a concentrated cleaning solution seems impractical. I was hoping I could specify an all-purpose cleaner that meets the GS-08 standard for residential cleaning products rather than GS-37 which is for institutional and industrial cleaners and is the LEED requirement. Any thoughts on this?
Thank you!
Trista Brown
Project DirectorWSP USA
456 thumbs up
November 20, 2013 - 2:47 pm
Hi Martha, I did a search and this Staples multi-purpose cleaner came up as an affordable, GS-08 certified option - http://www.staples.com/Sustainable-Earth-by-Staples-All-Purpose-Cleaner-...
The full list of certified products can be found here - http://www.greenseal.org/FindGreenSealProductsandServices.aspx?vid=ViewP...
Let us know how whichever product you select ends up working!
Trista
Martha Norbeck
PresidentC-Wise Design and Consulting
71 thumbs up
December 2, 2013 - 2:39 pm
Hi Trista,
I finally heard back from the GBCI on this one. Here is what they have to say:
"The Green Seal GS-37 and GS-08 standards are not equivalent in all aspects; GS-37 includes additional performance, health, environmental, and training requirements that are not found in the GS-08 standard. The GS-37 standard applies to products intended for routine cleaning of offices and other facilities. For more information, refer to http://www.greenseal.org/GreenBusiness/Standards.aspx. Additionally, LEED-EB v2.0 MRc4 Sustainable Cleaning Products and Materials CIR ruling dated 2/27/2008 (LEED Interpretation ID#1981 dated 02/27/2008; applicable to LEED-EBOM v2009) confirms that the use of household cleaners in lieu of GS-37 certified cleaning products is not sufficient unless they meet or exceed GS-37 criteria; Green Seal GS-37 certification or equivalent third-party verification must be achieved for general-purpose, bathroom, glass, and carpet cleaners in order to meet the sustainability criteria of IEQc3.3 Green Cleaning: Purchase of Sustainable Cleaning Products and Materials. Refer to the full LEED Interpretation for more information. In this case, GS-08 standards are not equivalent to GS-37 standards."