GREEN RESOURCES

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Cascades- Cascades North River brand is a preferred supplier of recycled tissue paper products for every industry's needs. Cascade North River products not only exceed the most stringent environmental standards but are also certified by the largest number of organizations in the industry: Green Seal Certified, Green Restaurant Certified, Environmental Choice, and Processed Chlorine Free Products Assocaition.

Cascades North River brand is the most extensive environmental product line available.  It offers superior performance, is clean, soft, and absorbent and all North River products are 100% recycled. Napkins contain a minimum of 40% post-consumer fiber, Tissue contains a minimum of 60% post-consumer fiber, and Roll Towel contains a minimum of 80% post-consumer fiber.
-Cascade Clearly Green Literature

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ECOLAB- EcoLogic - Environmentally Responsible Cleaning- Environmental sustainability is part of Ecolab's strategy. They care about the environment because their customers, sanitizing and maintenance needs. Ecolab conserves resources and preserves the quality of the environment.

Ecolab believes that Corporations should conduct their business as responsible stewards of the environment in a manner that does not disrupt the earth's natural evolutionary processes. Ecolab states that environmentally responsible cleaning is…cleaning that promotes a healthier and cleaner environment by utilizing products that help prevent toxic pollution and waste, conserve resources and habitats and minimize global warming.

ECOLAB- Commitment to Sustainability

-ECOLAB EcoLogic Literature

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Georgia-Pacific- Global Presence & Local Excellence! That's environmental leadership. Whether they are creating innovative new products, committing to stretch paper recovery goals, improving their efficiency in water and energy use, reclaiming and reusing waste … or just doing what they've said they will do, Georgia-Pacific takes a comprehensive approach to the environment … continuously improving our performance and sustaining it with all of our actions.
-Georgia Pacific Website

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GoJo- GOJO® Green Certified Foam Hand Cleaner helps support a clean environment. New GOJO® Green Certified Foam Hand Cleaner is the first certified hand soap to meet the Green Seal® and EcoLogoM joint standard (GS-41/CCD-104) for hand cleaners and hand soaps. The certifications mean that the product has been rigorously tested by these unbiased, third-party organizations and meet the organizations' standards for being environmentally responsible without sacrificing product performance.

GOJO® Green Certified Foam Hand Cleaner is a biodegradable hand washing formula in a foam-style format. The formula provides rich, luxurious, moisturizing lather. The formula is available in refills to fit three popular GOJO dispensing systems: the GOJO® TFX™ Touch Free Dispensing; the GOJO® CX™ Counter Mount Dispensing System; and the GOJO® FMX™ push-style Foam Soap Dispensing system.
-GoJo Website

Responsible Solutions for Enhanced Well-Being

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Johnson Diversey - Offers responsible solutions to take the pathway of Cleaning for health and the environment. Johnsons offers a responsible solutions program that is a unique and comprehensive approach to accelerating your cleaning and hygiene program for delivering safe, healthy, high performance facilities now! Team up with a responsible partner. You can trust the development and manufacture of products and programs to be environmentally responsible and respectful of human health.

They are a proud sponsor of the Quick & Easy Guide to Green Cleaning in Schools. Together with their distribution partners, they are working with schools to achieve safe, health, high performance environments.
-Reference Johnson Diversey

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Kimberly Clark - Kimberly Clark Professional believes strongly that in order to help you create a truly green building; all of their products need to meet both environmental standards and end user high quality standards.

It is important for KC to provide customers with the quality, environmentally sound products. Higher-quality products made with a sensible amount of recycled material are a better environmental value.
-Reference Kimberly Clark

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Procter & Gamble - Green Guarantee! P&G Pro Line's Green Guarantee ensures the environmental safety of its products, packaging and operations.  All P&G Pro Line Green Guarantee products provide outstanding performance while meeting high standards for human and environmental safety.

-Reference: Procter & Gamble - Green Guarantee

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Simoniz - Simoniz: Green Scene - People Safe & Eco Responsible. Green Scene products provided by Simoniz are green seal certified which meet or exceed the following green seal standards: they are safe to the environment, safe to people, conserve resources, formulated to meet customer expectations, standardizes for industrial and institutional cleaners, floor care products and household cleaners.

In being safe to the environment Simoniz states that their product ingredients will not harm any plant, animal or aquatic life, that they are non-toxic to the earth, water or atmosphere, ingredients are biodegradable and will not form into any toxic substances. 
-Reference Simoniz Green Scene 

Tennant - Tennant is working to create a cleaner and safer world by delivering superior cleaning results in environmentally-responsible ways. Tennant's environmental stewardship focuses on their commitment to improving the quality of indoor environments. Tennant creates environmentally preferable products and solutions that reduce the impact of cleaning on the outdoors by reducing, reusing, and recycling. They aim to conserve resources, reduce detergents, increase safety, improve air quality and reduce noise.

Tennant recognizes guidelines and standards established to help meet the government mandate: The NYS OGS is adopting the Carpet and Rug Institute Green Label standard for vacuum cleaners and has created an OGS green vacuum cleaners product list of vacuums to meet certain standards through a stringent testing process that measures three performance factors:

• Soil Removal
• Dust Containment
• Carpet Appearance Retention   

Wausau Paper - Wausau Paper produces Bay West brand towels, tissue, soap, wipers, and dispensing systems for the away-from-home market. They offer premium and 100% recycled towels and tissue along with dispensing systems that control waste and reduce maintenance time. Their commitment to the environment includes: source reduction, resource recovery and recycling.

Their controlled-use dispensing systems promote source reduction and discourage paper waste by controlling the amount of toweling dispensed at each use. Several of their controlled dispensing systems offer a pre-determined amount of toweling to promote using only the toweling that is needed.

Several EcoSoft™ products have obtained certification as environmentally preferable by Green Seal, Inc. of Washington. These EcoSoft™ Green Seal® products are the first and only complete line of towels and tissue to be certified by Green Seal. To achieve and maintain the Green Seal certification, their towel and tissue products are continually subjected to rigorous evaluation and testing.
-Reference: Wausau Paper: Bay West - Environmental Policy

Green Seal is known as the mark of environmental responsibility.  Their mission is to achieve a more sustainable world by promoting environmentally responsible production, purchasing, and products. Green Seal Certification ensures that a product meets rigorous, science-based environmental leadership standards. This gives manufacturers the assurance to back up their claims and purchasers confidence that certified products are better for human health and the environment.

Visit the website below to find a current list that is updated weekly for all Green Seal-certified products and services: http://www.greenseal.org/findaproduct/index.cfm.

To learn more about Green Seal call 202-872-6400, e-mail: greenseal@greenseal.org, or on-line: www.greenseal.org.
-Reference: Green Seal, Inc. 2005

LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) is a green building rating system developed by the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) specifically for buildings providing the most comprehensive framework for assessing a building’s overall environmental performance. –Reference U.S. Green Building Council 

The U.S. Green Building Council
USGBC – is a coalition of leaders from across the building industry that’s working to promote buildings that are environmentally responsible, profitable and health places to live and work. –Reference U.S. Green Building Council

Environmentally Preferable Products
Are defined as those that have a lesser or reduced effect on human health and the environment when compared with competing products or services. –Reference U.S. Green Building Council