Disinfectants, sanitizers, desks, partitions, paints, notebooks, computers, markers, furnishings. A policy guidance memo to help you find and use low-emissions, low toxicity products which will help promote healthy Indoor Air (IAQ), and reduce exposures in schools associated with asthma, headaches, rashes, eye and skin irritation, and as well cancer.
This Toolkit also offers related information on Safer Disinfectants, GreenWashing, aka, false environmental marketing claims, and on other topics from the Work Group on Green Cleaning and Chemical Policy Reform in Schools.
- US EPA Introduction to Eco-Labels and Standards for Greener Products
- The Seven Sins of Greenwashing
- Green Seal – all products and services
- United Laboratories UL Solutions: Eco Logo labeled products
- NY State OGS Green Purchasing Program – all products and services
- MA Environmentally Preferable Procurement Program: all product types
- Healthy Purchasing for Healthy Schools Memo, 2013
- Healthy Purchasing for Healthy Schools Webcast, 2013
- Healthy Schools Network’s Lead-Free Electronics Fact Sheet for Schools and Parents Works, 2018
- Healthy Purchasing for Healthy Schools Guidance Memo, 2013
- EPA Can Help Consumers Identify Household and Other Products with Safer Chemicals by Strengthening Its “Design for the Environment” Program, 2014
- EPA Design for the Environment label: states and NGOs’ concerns about labeling and marketing
- EPA’s Design for the Environment label was renamed Safer Choice following the 2014 report.
- EPA DfE Label: NGO Evaluation, 2010
- EPA DfE Label: NY State Review, 2010
- “Increase Your Green: People, Planet, and Profits,” School Business Affairs magazine, Jan. 2015