The green cleaning industry continues to pursue products that reduce or eliminate impacts on human health and the environment; however,these impacts over the life cycle are not well understood. This study assessed environmental impacts of four green cleaning products fromMethod Products, PBC (all-purpose cleaner, hand wash, dish soap) and Ecover (dish soap). A life cycle assessment from cradle-to-grave wasperformed and ReCiPe and IPCC GWP methodologies were applied. Results correlated greatest impact contributors to ingredient compositionand identified the need to improve data quality. Based on the findings, a prioritized list of actions for green cleaning was developed.

@article{VANLIESHOUT2015372,
title = {Leveraging Life Cycle Assessment to Evaluate Environmental Impacts of Green Cleaning Products},
journal = {Procedia CIRP},
volume = {29},
pages = {372-377},
year = {2015},
note = {The 22nd CIRP Conference on Life Cycle Engineering},
doi = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procir.2015.02.063},
author = {Kathryn G. {Van Lieshout} and Cindy Bayley and Sarah O. Akinlabi and Lisa {von Rabenau} and David Dornfeld},
}