Green Cleaning

• Replace toxic products under your sink with non-toxic, biodegradable substitutes.  Toxic products are harmful to the environment, and if not disposed of properly, could leak into the waste stream.
• When choosing cleaning supplies, you can reduce your use of non-renewable resources by avoiding products with harmful ingredients like sponges with antibacterial ingredients.  To save money, reuse old shirts as rags instead of paper towels! HEPA vacuums work towards providing your home and environment with fresh, clean air, and reduce your consumption of nonrenewable resources (http://www.gohepa.com/).
• Cut down on costs and help to create clean air by mixing your own cleaning solutions. By combining simple ingredients such as plain soap, water, baking soda (sodium bicarbonate), vinegar, washing soda (sodium carbonate), lemon juice, and borax you can satisfy most household cleaning needs.
• Use laundry soaps labeled "fragrance-free," because the fragrances in detergents and fabric softeners can contain phthalates, chemicals that have been linked to cancer and reproductive-system damage in animal lab tests.
• Levels of pollutants in indoor air can be from two to more than 100 times higher than outdoors, according to the U.S. EPA. Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) that evaporate, or "off gas," from home decorating and cleaning products are mostly responsible for indoor pollution.