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Our New Standard is Defining Sustainability for Paints and Coatings

Green Seal’s paint certification is the only mark in the marketplace to qualify products for both LEED v4.1 low-emitting materials credit requirements and Amazon’s Climate Pledge Friendly badge — making it simple for health-focused buyers to identify safer products.

Your Guide to VOCs in Paint and Cleaning Products

Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) are common indoor air pollutants that are frequently found in household products and can cause adverse health effects. Here’s a quick overview of VOCs, how to choose healthier, greener products, and other tips for reducing your exposure to VOCs.

The Green Seal Compass: Protecting Human Health

Our standards address the most significant health impacts across the product life cycle for which there are known and feasible safer alternatives.

Innovations are Making Toxic Chemicals a Thing of the Past

A simple but advanced technology combines salt, water, vinegar, and electricity to create an EPA-registered, general purpose, hospital-grade cleaner and disinfectant proven more effective than chlorine bleach.

Introducing Green Seal’s Compass: Health, Waste, Water, and Climate

This compass guides our work to ensure only the healthiest, most responsible, and proven effective products are certified to Green Seal standards.

ABCO Products on the Paradigm Shift to Cleaning Sustainably

ABCO’s Vice President Sales & Marketing, Christopher Meaney, shares how sustainability is woven into the family owned company’s business strategy and why they partner with Green Seal.

Cascades Aims to Change the Status Quo for Paper Products

Cascades Tissue Group’s Product Manager, Isabelle Gendron, shares why sustainability is a core part of the company’s mission and how third-party certification differentiates them from competitors.

Service Leader GSF on Changing the Culture of Clean

GSF’s General Manager, Illinois & Wisconsin, Kurt Kuempel, discusses the importance of green cleaning and why they partner with Green Seal.

Aqua ChemPacs on the Rise of Dissolvable Cleaning Packs

Aqua Chempacs’ President and CEO, Steve Seneca, discusses what sustainability attributes consumers are looking for and why they partner with Green Seal.

CDC Confirms: Less is More When it Comes to Disinfecting

Our CEO, Doug Gatlin, discusses the dangers of over-disinfecting and the importance of identifying safer chemicals.

Microbial-Based Cleaning Products

We’re proposing several important improvements to our standard criteria for microbial-based cleaning products to better recognize leadership in this popular product category.

Cleaning Leader Diversey Shares Views on Ecolabelling

Diversey’s Executive Director of Sustainability, Daniel Daggett, shares how sustainability is incorporated into their business strategy and how ecolabels help them meet customers’ needs.

Why We’re Certifying Safer Alcohol-Based Hand Sanitizers

We are now certifying hand sanitizers that meet the highest standard for safety and performance in the marketplace.

Safer, Healthier Hand Sanitizers

We developed a health-protective framework for alcohol-based hand sanitizer certification to provide purchasers and consumers a simple way choose safer and effective products.

Agile Methods Lead to Better Processes and Better Standards

We’re thrilled to introduce an agile process that will allow us to quickly incorporate non-substantiative changes into our standards: Quarterly Corrections and Clarifications Reports.