• Advocating for Safe and Just Cleaning

  • Jan 18 2022
  • Length: 43 mins
  • Podcast

Advocating for Safe and Just Cleaning

  • Summary

  • In Part 2 of our mini-series on toxic chemicals in cleaning products, we  focus on the efforts of organizers, domestic workers and scientists to strive towards safe and healthy working conditions, as well as job security and benefits for those in the cleaning work sector. We speak with an organizer with the National Domestic Worker’s Alliance, a chemical engineer working to ensure that safer chemicals are used in consumer products, and a founder of a worker-owned cleaning coop. All of these solutions combined are helping to ensure that domestic workers are respected and treated with dignity, have safe working conditions, and have a path to build economic security for themselves and their families.  

    TO LEARN MORE:

    Links to organizations mentioned in this episode:

    National Domestic Workers Alliance:  https://www.domesticworkers.org/

    Make the Road NY:  https://maketheroadny.org/

    Safe and Just Cleaners: https://safeandjustcleaners.org/

    Women’s Voices for the Earth:  https://www.womensvoices.org/

    ALIA:  https://www.myalia.org/

    Toxics Use Reduction Institute:  https://www.turi.org/

    Brazilian Women’s Group:http://verdeamarelo.org/bwg/

    Vida Verde:   http://verdeamarelo.org/vidaverde/

    Hand in Hand:  https://domesticemployers.org/

    Resources to identify safer cleaning products:

    US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Safer Choice:  https://www.epa.gov/saferchoice

    US Environmental Protection Agency DFE certified disinfectants:https://www.epa.gov/pesticide-labels/dfe-certified-disinfectants

    Massachusetts Toxics Use Reduction Institute (TURI) List of Safer Disinfectant Products:  https://www.turi.org/Our_Work/Cleaning_Laboratory/COVID-19_Safely_Clean_Disinfect/Safer_Disinfecting_Products/List_of_Safer_Disinfecting_Products

    City of San Francisco - SF Approved cleaning products:  https://www.sfapproved.org/cleaners-homes-small-businesses

    Green Seal:  https://greenseal.org/

    EcoLogo: https://www.ul.com/services/ecologo-certification

    Cradle to Cradle Certified Products Registry:  https://www.c2ccertified.org/products/registry

    Environmental Working Group (EWG) Verified™:  https://www.ewg.org/ewgverified/cleaning-products.php

    Apps:

    Clearya:  https://www.clearya.com/

    Think Dirty:  https://thinkdirtyapp.com/

    Detox Me:  https://silentspring.org/detox-me-app-tips-healthier-living

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