GS-51 Standard proves good for professional laundry industry.

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Designed to address environmental impacts of laundry care products used in institutional and industrial settings, GS-51 Standard helps laundry industry reduce their environmental footprint and adopt more sustainable practices. Standard covers more than 20 product categories including detergents, prewash products, spot removers, laundry additives, and fabric care products. GS-51 helps protect workers' health, meet performance requirements, and reduce fuel, transportation, and storage needs.



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Why Green Seal's GS-51 Standard is Good for the Professional Laundry Industry



It's proving to be the right standard at the right time for the institutional laundry industry



Washington, DC. -  Green Seals new standard, GS-51 Laundry Care Products for Industrial and Institutional Use, is designed to address the environmental impacts of laundry care products used in institutional and industrial settings. It is proving to be the right standard at the right time for the institutional laundry industry, according to Arthur Weissman, President and CEO for Green Seal™.



"The [institutional laundry] industry continues to be pressured to 'go Green,' to reduce their environmental footprint, and adopt more sustainable practices," says Weissman. "GS-51 was created to help them accomplish this and to facilitate the shift to healthier, safer laundry products."



The standard covers more than 20 product categories for conventional laundry and dry cleaning, including detergents, prewash products, spot removers, laundry additives, fabric care products, and other products regularly used in institutional cleaning.



Along with helping the institutional industry become Greener and more sustainable, the new standard also helps the industry:



Protect workers' health. To receive certification under GS-51, laundry products can not contain any components that are carcinogens, reproductive toxins, mutagens, neurotoxins/systemic toxins, endocrine disruptors, asthmagens, respiratory sensitizers and skin sensitizers. Certified products must not cause skin corrosion or eye damage.



Meet performance requirements. The standard is designed to ensure that all GS-51-certified laundry care products deliver, if not exceed, the performance expected of comparable non-Green laundry care products.



Reduce fuel, transportation, and storage needs.

GS-51 requires that certified detergents and fabric softeners be sold in concentrated (2X) and/or ultraconcentrated (4X) forms. "This leads to fewer trucks on the road, saving fuel and reducing greenhouse emissions," Weissman explains. 



"And concentrated products use less packaging material and contain less water, so they have less impact on our natural resources."



About Green Seal

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