Enviromental Care

Sure we all know enough to not to digest cleaning products and to keep it away from children and our food, but there are many ways harmful toxins from regular cleaning products can still end up effecting you.

It begins with the disposal of these products. Like most people, you probably throw away a spray bottle once there is not enough fluid left to get a full spray and throw away powders without checking to see how much is really left. These disposed products contain thousands of untested chemicals that you have now unintentionally put into the environment. 

With the exception of laundry detergent, most common cleaning products have many non-biodegradable chemicals that over time end up in streams, rivers and who knows where else. These chemicals come in contact with marine life of all sorts whether it be the plant that a fish eats or the fish that you eat. Not to mention the effects of these chemical when in contact with your skin has been proven to cause cancer and birth defects.

Packaging of many cleaning products has improved over the years in part due to the Montreal Protocol. However not all of this packaging is biodegradable even today and some of it can not be recycled and take a heavy toll on our planets health. For example: Aerosol cans still contain propellant gases which have chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) that are proven to harm the ozone layer.

Bottom line is that we are killing ourselves and our planet by not using Green Cleaning Products. Even if one would be lucky enough to never be effected by the negative effects, can you use these products knowing that they will effect someone else?

Reference: http://www.greenchoices.org/green-living/cleaning/environmental-impacts