Janitorial and Housekeeping Services
Best Management Practices
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• Cleaners, Toxins and the Ecosystem Project  |
| | Information: As part of the project, the Labour Environmental Alliance Society published the Cleaners and Toxins guide, a 24-page booklet that lists a number of toxic cleaning product ingredients, along with their health and environmental effects and proposes strategies for eliminating them from the workplace and the environment.
| • Cleaning for Health: Products and Practices for a Safer Indoor Environment
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| | Information: This report provides guidance on environmentally preferable cleaning products and methods. It provides a model specification, as well as manufacturer contacts and other resources for those who want to develop a safer cleaning program for their buildings.
| • Cleaning Products Pilot Project Fact Sheet
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| | Information: produced by the United States Environmental Protection Agency, this factsheet supports those who are responsible for environmental preferable purchasing.
| | • Eco-Efficiency and Chemical Management: Cleaning Compounds |
| | Information: This four page fact sheet produced by the Eco-efficiency Centre in Nova Scotia, provides information on purchasing and minimizing the use of cleaning chemicals.
| • Janitorial Products Pollution Prevention Project
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| | Information:The Janitorial Products P2 Project produced a series of fact sheets on environmental, health, and safety issues associated with toilet cleaning,hard floor care, carpet care, restroom cleaning, glass cleaning, metal cleaning, disinfectants
| • Safer Cleaning Products - New American Dream
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| | Links to websites that provide information about protecting yourself and your workers | | |
Product Certification Programs
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| • Environmental Choice Program (Ecologo) |
| | Role: to help consumers and organizations buy ‘green’
Information: access to environmentally preferable products and services
| • Green Seal (USA)
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| | Role: an independent, non-profit organization that strives to achieve a healthier and cleaner environment by identifying and promoting products and services that cause less toxic pollution and waste, conserve resources and habitats, and minimize global warming and ozone depletion.
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Key Contacts
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| • Canadian Association of Environmental Management |
| | Role: formerly the Canadian Administrative Housekeeping Association, the Canadian Association of Environment Management is a national association of managers, supervisors, self-employed people, corporate and associate members involved in the environmental services field.
| | • Sanitation Canada |
| | Role: A magazine servicing the Sanitary Maintenance Industry in Canada. The magazine often features articles on green cleaning issues. | | |
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