EcoLogo, CleanGredients Streamline Ingredient Selection Process

OTTAWA – EcoLogo, a Canadian green certification and marketing organization, has announced that it will make it easier for manufacturers to formulate products that meet its green certification criteria by streamlining the audit for products using ingredients listed on the CleanGredients database.

CleanGredients is an online database of institutional and industrial cleaning ingredients developed to help manufacturers of green cleaning chemicals and products select environmentally preferable chemical ingredients.

Created by GreenBlue, a nonprofit organization based in Charlottesville, Va., CleanGredients works with various industry sectors to stimulate the development of healthier products and services. It also works in partnership with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Design for the Environment Program.

According to Scott McDougall, president of EcoLogo, any active surfactant in the database listed as "readily biodegradable" will now be acceptable evidence for EcoLogo that the ingredients meet its requirements.