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Green Partner Support

Standards, Ecolabels & Attributes

EPA SAFER CHOICE

The U.S. EPA is a federal government agency whose mission is to protect human health and the environ- ment. Safer Choice (formerly known as EPA Design for the Environment or DfE) is the U.S. EPA’s label for safer chemical-based products and has advanced the EPA’s mission to protect human health and the en- vironment since the early 1990’s. The program uses EPA’s chemical expertise to carefully review products and to label only those that have met the program’s highly protective Standard for the Safer Choice Label and stringent criteria for safer chemical ingredients. By allowing use of the label on products, EPA empowers consumers and commercial purchasers to choose safer chemical products that do not sacrifice quality or performance and that are safer for people and the planet. Safer Choice labels a wide variety of chemical-based products for the institutional maintenance, jan-san, and consumer cleaning markets . A professional in the cleaning industry can rely on EPA’s Safer Choice standards to specify and source third-party recognized products that have a more sustainable profile. EPA certified safer products in the categories of general-purpose cleaners, floor and carpet care products, hand soaps, specialty cleaners, and laundry care products help a facility reach its overall sustainability goals, and contribute to LEED O+M certification for the building or CIMS-GB certification for the cleaning service provider. For more information on EPA’s Safer Choice program, please visit www.epa.gov/saferchoice.

WAXIE has several EPA Safer Choice recognized products from which to choose, including all-purpose cleaners, glass cleaners, neutral floor cleaners, restroom cleaners, carpet cleaners, and laundry care products. Your WAXIE Account Consultant can work with you to design and implement a customized green cleaning program which includes products formulated in partnership with EPA Safer Choice.

EPA COMPREHENSIVE PROCUREMENT GUIDELINES (CPG)

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is a federal government agency founded in 1970 whose mission is to protect human health and the environment. The Comprehensive Procurement Guidelines (CPG) is the buy- recycled program authorized by Congress under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) and is part of the EPA’s continuing effort to promote the use of materials recovered from solid waste. The EPA designates products that are or can be made with recovered materials and recommends practices for buying these products, including by establishing desired ranges of post-consumer and total recycled materials content. A professional in the cleaning industry can choose to utilize EPA CPG-designated recycled fiber amounts to specify and source products which have a more sustainable profile. Green cleaning products which contain

recovered content in the categories of paper towels (40–60% post-consumer fiber content), bath tissue (20–60% post-consumer fiber), facial tissue (10–15% post-consumer fiber), paper napkins (30–60% post-consumer fiber), industrial wipers (40% post-consumer fiber), and plastic trash liners (10–100% post-consumer fiber) can help a facility reach its overall sustainability goals, and can potentially contribute to LEED O+M certification for the building or CIMS-GB certification for the cleaning service provider. For more information on EPA CPG, please visit https://www.epa.gov/smm/comprehensive-procurement-guideline-cpg-program. WAXIE has several EPA CPG designated products from which to choose, including sanitary paper products and plastic trash liners which meet or exceed the EPA’s recommended levels of post-consumer recycled content. Your WAXIE Account Consultant can work with you to design and implement a customized green cleaning program which includes products which meet the EPA CPG for post-consumer recycled content.

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