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Green Cleaning

Sustainable Green Products - Go Green with West Coast!

West Coast Maintenance Materials Co. recognizes and supports the growing need for both environmental and sustainable green products. Green cleaning encompasses a broad scope of concerns including products, processes, and the safety and health of building occupants and cleaning professionals. Environmentally safe cleaning products have a direct impact on indoor air quality. They reduce health and environmental impacts that contribute to the quality of your work place.

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What is Green Cleaning?

Green Cleaning is defined as cleaning to protect health without harming the environment.

A Green Cleaning program goes beyond chemical and equipment choices. It includes policies, procedures, training and shared responsibility efforts to minimize the impact of cleaning materials on the health of building occupants while protecting the environment as a whole.

What is Sustainability?

Sustainability is defined as the creation of manufactured products that use processes that are non-polluting, conserve energy and natural resources, are economically sound, and safe for employees, communities and consumers.

What is LEEDS®?

LEED is an internationally recognized green building certification system, providing third-party verification that a building was designed and built using strategies aimed at improving performance across all metrics that matter most; energy savings, water-efficiency, CO2 emissions reduction, improved indoor environmental quality, and stewardship of resources and sensitivity to their impact.

Developed by the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), LEED provides building owners and operators a concise framework for identifying and implementing practical and measurable green building design, construction, operations and maintenance solutions.

By switching to green cleaning  you can quickly and easily qualify for LEED® points. To learn more about LEED® certification, visit the U.S. Green Building Council

Reference Guide

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) - www.epa.gov
EPA is a government agency that leads the nation's environmental science, research, education and assessment efforts. The mission of the Environmental Protection Agency is to protect human health and environment.


Design for the Environment (DfE) Program, U.S. EPA - www.epa.gov/dfe
The Design for the Environment (DfE) Program works in partnership with a broad range of stakeholders to reduce risk to people and the environment by preventing pollution.


U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) - www.usgbc.org
A non-profit organization devoted to creating standards intended to shift the building industry towards improved sustainability by targeting how buildings are designed, built and operated.


Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) - www.usgbc.org
Developed by the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), LEED provides building owners and operators a concise framework for identifying and implementing practical and measurable green building design, construction, operations and maintenance solutions.


LEED-EBOM (Existing Building Operations & Maintenance) - www.usgbc.org
The LEED for Existing Buildings Rating System helps building owners and operators measure operations, improvements and maintenance on a consistent scale, with the goal of maximizing operational efficiency while minimizing environmental impacts.


EcoLogo - www.terrachoice-certified.com
EcoLogo offers third party certification of environmentally preferable products comparing products/services with others in the same category, develops rigorous and scientifically relevant criteria that reflect the entire lifecycle of the product, and awards the EcoLogo to those that are verified by an independent third party as complying with the criteria.


Green Seal - www.greenseal.org
Green Seal provides science-based environmental certification standards that are credible, transparent, and essential in an increasingly educated and competitive marketplace with an environmental standard as demonstrated by rigorous evaluation, testing and plant visit.


The Carpet & Rug Institute - www.carpet-rug.org
Carpet, carpet pads and carpet adhesives contribute to green building in two important ways: helping reduce volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and emissions and contributing to the growing use of recycle content for building materials.


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