The United States Environmental Protection Agency found that airborne chemical levels in homes were as much as seventy times higher than outside.  Americans spend 80%-90% of their time indoors.  The typical home now contains over sixty-three hazardous products that together contain hundreds of different chemicals. 

We can make a difference by replacing toxic cleaning products with non-toxics in our schools and homes. Follow the links below to learn about commercially available non-toxic products, and present the information to your school administration and purchasing department.

This year, encourage your school to adopt a non-toxic purchasing policy!  

Check out the Products you use now at:

Enviro Alternatives: http://www.enviroalternatives.com/nontoxic.html

Material Safety Data Sheet http://msds.pdc.cornell.edu/msdssrch.asp

Directory of Natural Cleaning http://expage.com/nancysnatural

Children's Health Environmental Coalition: http://www.checnet.org

Oregon Toxics Alliance: http://www.oregontoxics.org

For a listing of alternatives to toxic cleaning products:

Sun and Earth:"Sun & Earth makes natural non-toxic cleaning products for home and office. When it comes to cleaners you don’t have to accept tradeoffs between cleaning power, safety for children and pets, your sensitive skin and the environment." http://www.sunandearth.com

Diedre Imus Institute, Greening the Cleaning "The Deirdre Imus Environmental Center for Pediatric Oncology is devoted to the health and well being of our children, their parents and the general public through a program of education and action designed to identify and eliminate the carcinogens and environmental factors that assault and ravage our lives." http://www.dienviro.com/

Safe Substitutes for Cleaning Products in the Home and at School: http://es.epa.gov/techinfo/facts/safe-fs.html

Better Health Campaign: http://www.betterhealthcampaign.org

Books
http://www.totallyclean.com/tc_books.html