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Greening Your School

According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, more than 60 million Americans — one-fifth of the population — spend their days inside school buildings as students, faculty, staff and administration.
We all have fond memories of school – classmates, favorite activities. School makes a life-long impression on each of us, because it is the time in our lives when we can enjoy freedom and growth.
Yet during this stage, students are also most susceptible to toxins that exist in their schools, as a result of many commonly-used products, from cleaning agents to pesticides. Fortunately, there are green alternatives available, such as our own line of institutional Greening The Cleaning® products, in use in numerous school districts and successfully tested for New York City schools. Our program is also leading the way on standards for health and safety. (See how our stringent product standards stack up.) 

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Green Your Kid's School
7 Secrets To Getting It Done

Ask your school principal or administrator for the product name of all the cleaning supplies used. Ask to see the full list of ingredients. You have the right to ask and know.  If they use products that don't list all ingredients then it isn't a green product. You want to know what chemicals if any your child is being exposed to.
Our GTC products have full disclosure of all ingredients and don't contain chemicals that are carcinogenic, neurotoxicants, hormone or endocrine distruptors.
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The National "Greening Your Schools" Program

Through our national "Greening Your Schools" program, The Deirdre Imus Environmental Center is helping schools adopt more eco-friendly cleaning and maintenance practices.

See article in USA Today:
"Deirdre Imus Helps Schools Go Green

Students and all who work in the school benefit from improvements to indoor air, especially those who suffer from asthma or other respiratory problems.  Our Center's mission is to help reduce or eliminate toxins from the environment.   Our award-winning Greening The Cleaning® program makes it easy to start -- with environmentally responsible alternatives to toxic cleaning products.

Greening The Cleaning® products work as good or better than traditional cleaners and help lower cleaning costs.

100% of all profits from our institutional products go to The Deirdre Imus Environmental Health Center® for supporting the GTC Greening The Cleaning® program in addition to funding education and research to identify, control and ultimately prevent toxic exposures in the environment that threaten our children’s health.   

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