Greener Cleaning with An Ecolabe

Enter The Ecolabel

Ecolabel products reduce environmental impact, taking into account the entire life cycle of the product from manufacture to disposal. This involves a wide range of factors including:

• The carbon footprint of the production process;
• A reduction in chemical components that could harm the environment;
• The sustainability of packaging, with materials either being recyclable or biodegradable; and
• Efforts to reduce water use in both the production and design of the products.

To earn an Ecolabel also requires products to demonstrate reduced risks to health for both the people carrying out the cleaning and the people living and working in the facilities being cleaned.

Another key element of Ecolabel criteria is that cleaning materials perform at least as well as traditional products, overcoming the barrier of a perceived compromise in quality.

Making The Switch

Cleaning professionals and clients alike often have some initial skepticism about Ecolabel products. There’s a false assumption that such products simply don’t have the strength to perform as well as traditional products and that switching is a compromise too far.

Tackling this skepticism requires a combination of education and awareness programs and practical demonstrations and trials. In many cases this can be about giving qualitative evidence that an eco-product achieves the same outputs in reducing dirt and contamination and providing the required level of hygiene.