Clean Green to Transform Your Home: Cleaning 101 Provides Safe, Eco-friendly Solutions

Green cleaning can help reduce the nearly $2.3 billion in U.S. healthcare costs due to unintentional ingestion of toxic household chemicals.

Split microfiber cloths make green cleaning easier to do.

Our one step this week is Cleaning 101: Using Safer Solutions. Like last week’s practice ( Drinking 101: More Tap Water, Fewer Bottled Beverages), this is a practice everyone can afford-plus it would lower healthcare costs if widely adopted. Green cleaning protects the well being of our natural environment and the people we love who are living in that environment.

Two That Matter Most

To know whether you are meeting your need for cleaning in a sustainable way, these two environmental indicators matter most:

1. How much money you spend on “green” cleaning solutions.
2. How much money you spend on harsh chemical cleaning solutions.

Sustainable Practice: Cleaning 101

Using Safer Solutions

Clean using effective tools and techniques, including aqueous solutions of homemade and plant-based biodegradable compounds free of unnecessary perfumes or dyes and…