About Green Seal Certification

Founded in 1989, Green Seal is an independent non profit organisation that helps identify and promote environmentally preferable products and services. The Green Seal is awarded to products that meet the standards of performance, safety and reliability. Because the DriFresh System* achieved the Green Seal Certification, you can be sure that it will promote a cleaner, healthier environment, cause less toxic pollution, reduce waste and conserve resources and habitats.
 

What does Green Seal Certified mean?

Green Seal Certification means that a product or service has been tested according to science-based environmental leadership standards, that it works as well or better than others in its class, and that it has been evaluated without bias or conflict of interest. This gives manufacturers the assurance to back up their claims, and purchasers confidence that certified products are better for human health and the environment.

To earn the coveted Green Seal, a product must meet the Green Seal environmental standard for the category as demonstrated by rigorous evaluation, testing and a plant visit.

By identifying, certifying, and promoting environmentally responsible products and services, Green Seal:

• Improves the environment by reducing toxic pollution and waste, conserving resources and habitats, and minimizing global warming and ozone depletion

• Increases health and well-being, particularly in populations most affected by product choice, such as schoolchildren, service staff, and the elderly

More specifically, the DriFresh System* has been shown by Green Seal to:

• Have low VOCs

• Pass performance testing

• Be non-toxic

• Contain no carcinogens

• Contain no reproductive toxins

• Be non-irritating to skin or eyes

• Be non-sensitizing to skin

• Not be combustible

• Contain readily biodegradable organic ingredients

• Contain no optical brighteners

• Contain no ozone-depleting compounds

• Contain no heavy metals

• Not cause eutrophication (proliferation of plant life, especially algae, in part due to high phosphorous levels, which reduces the dissolved oxygen content and often causes the extinction of other organisms)

• Have responsible packaging
   

About Our Wool Approved System

The WoolSafe Organization is an international certifying body focused on carpet cleaning and maintenance products for wool and wool blend carpets. Its purpose is to indicate that products have been tested and approved as being suitable for these carpets. Products are tested on a range of characteristics in two categories, defensive tests and performance tests. WoolSafe Approved means that the product is effective, has low resoiling characteristics, is low in alkalinity, has no bleaching agents, no optical brighteners, is nonflammable, nonhazardous, environmentally responsible and has clear and concise use directions.

 

About BioPreferred Certification

The DriFresh System* requires no special disposal and can be composted. And, the DriFresh System* is the first dry carpet cleaner to receive USDA BioPreferred™ Certification via ASTM test method D6866-05.

USDA BioPreferred products are composed in whole or in part of biological products or renewable domestic agricultural materials, including plant, animal, or marine materials. Made from renewable resources, BioPreferred products are generally safer for the environment than their petroleum counterparts and are usually biodegradable or recyclable.

* HOST Racine Industries (Wisconsin, USA)

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