Rick,

Where does Releasit stand as far as "Green Seal Certified".

what is green seal certified?

Tom, I’m pleased to able to say that Releasit products are safe for the technician and the indoor environment. Yet “safe” is not the real thrust of Green Seal intitiative – it’s primary focus is to establish how rapidly a cleaning product can biodegrade. It seems that Green Seal is putting unrealistic definitions on their GS-37 standard for carpet cleaning chemicals. "Safe for people" is obviously a good goal and one that I support fully. However, biodegradability in 28 days is a standard that will not be met by over 95% of the ingredients that are currently used to formulate cleaning products. Hoping to find good raw ingredients that can break down that quickly is like finding a needle in a haystack - there are no great options. Ultimately, the “Green Seal” initiative will drive up the cost of cleaning products and possibly diminish performance. And I suspect that in the end compromises will be made. It will be interesting to see just how the Green Seal initiative impacts our industry. In the meantime, we’ll continue to build our products with the safest effective ingredients that we can obtain.




Rick Gelinas
encapman

If you really want to know in depth about "Green Seal" program, please call my friend Ivan Day, the Founder of Procyon in Spokane, Washington. His product far exceeds all the Green Seal standards but unless he coughs up $170,000.00 He can not use theirs. He has come up with his own "green seal" and has this cute green seal on this neat logo. To me the Green Seal is a farce.

Green Seal may be a farce, but using safe cleaning products is something that needs to be addressed. It is fine to assume that the product you are using is safe, but one of these days you may need to prove it. Cleaning for health reasons and not just appearance is coming bit by bit. A new product by Chemspec that is totally detergent free is one of the first products I have seen that is a safe cleaning system for both low moisture and hot water extraction methods.

Just like anything else the goverment is involved in it will be a cluster **** but I really like the idea of promoting my business as "Green"...and I think using products that have the green seal or that are environmentally and human friendly can only be a positive.

Just my thoughts

One big probelm is that just because a product has a grean seal does not mean it is safe NONTOXIC to humans. It only means it is friendly to the envoirnment.

WOOPY I will take a product that is safe to humans first