ID credit Green Cleaning and Maintenance
I'm a little confused about the actual requirements that cleaning products need to achieve for the Green CleaningGreen cleaning is the use of cleaning products and practices that have lower environmental impacts and more positive indoor air quality impacts than conventional products and practices. and Maintenance ID credit. My understanding is that they have to be Green Seal certified. Is there an alternative EPA standard that also achieves LEED compliance? Is there a list that explicitly states what standard (Green Seal certified, etc.) each type of cleaning product needs to achieve to comply with LEED?
I could not find an answer to this question explicitly stated in the ID LEED Credit Catalog or on the USGBC site.





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RE: certifications for cleaning products
I referenced the requirements from EBOMEBOM is an acronym for Existing Buildings: Operations & Maintenance, one of the LEED 2009 rating sytems. v2009 IEQc3.3 and set a target compliance goal of 60%. US EPA’s Design for the Environment Program’s Standard for Safer Cleaning Products is not referenced as compliant standard but it does appear in the LEED 2012 draft...
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