Greener Surface Cleaners – An EcoLogo Trend
New products receive EcoLogo certification every month, and I thought it might be instructive to look at the last several months to see if there have been any trends. Turns out there have. While I knew green cleaning was a hot topic, I had no idea how hot. Roughly one third of recently certified products fall under the EcoLogo category of hard-surface cleaners. And that doesn’t even include the handful of other products like detergent and hand cleaner that support the green cleaning trend.
- No glycol ethers or their acetates
- No alkylphenol ethoxylate surfactants (APEOS) (Note: environmentalists are trying to pass a bill in Connecticut that would phase out these suspected hormone disruptors in all products)
- No toxic metals, including but not limited to arsenic, cadmium, chromium, lead, silver and mercury
- No more than 1% by weight of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) as used (after dilution if applicable), or more than 12% by weight if sold in concentrated form
Among the other categories of recently certified EcoLogo products are green power, personal care products (like shampoo) and toilet tissue.