Product Sustainability
When we formulate and manufacture Clorox® products, we keep you and our planet in mind. We conduct environmental safety assessments to help ensure our products will be safe for the environment when used as directed. These evaluations include such things as biodegradation and bioaccumulation, and impact on septic systems, aquatic life, birds, and other wildlife. We’re also constantly working on more efficient, sustainable solutions for our product packaging that include using recyclable or compostable materials.
For instance, it might surprise you to know that the lifecycle of our namesake Clorox® bleach, one of the world’s most effective and inexpensive disinfectants, starts and ends with sodium chloride, common table salt. Brita® filters provide great-tasting water without the plastic waste from bottled water. Glad® ForceFlex® trash bags are made in a way that we’re using one million pounds less plastic per year compared to our original trash bags. Burt’s Bees® earth-friendly products have set a high bar in natural personal care. The Kingsford® Products Manufacturing Company is an industry leader in environmental controls and sustainability for charcoal manufacturing.
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Green Works® Cleaners: It Works, Naturally
For generations, the Clorox name has been associated with products that get the job done. So when we decided to create a naturally-derived line of cleaning products, we wanted them to work, naturally.
It wasn't easy. Without an industry standard for what "natural" means, we developed our own tough tests and, in the process, developed Green Works® cleaning products that work as well as conventional cleaners on most soils. At least 95 percent of ingredients in Green Works® products come from natural sources like coconuts and lemons. The cleaning ingredients in Green Works® products are biodegradable, formulated to be nonallergenic, not tested on animals and packaged in bottles that can be recycled.
Green Works® products are recognized by the US EPA's Design for Environment* program for using safer chemistry.
*The DfE is a program started by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to reduce risk to people and the environment by preventing pollution. Review teams screen the ingredients in products (household cleaners are one of many different categories) to make sure that they pose the least concern among chemicals in their class. Basically, the DfE logo on a product is short hand to say the ingredients inside are safer for families and the environment.
