Physical Place:
Indoor Environmental Quality
START Metric #39:
Green Cleaning
Guides & Resources
‘How To’ Guides
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How to Implement a Green Cleaning Program
Guidance from the New York Office of General Services (OGS), that can help any school lay the groundwork, assess, plan, implement and evaluate their green cleaning program.
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Green Cleaning for Early Care and Education
Green Cleaning, Sanitizing, and Disinfecting: A Curriculum for Early Care and Education, developed by the University of California and others, explains the most effective and safest ways of cleaning, sanitizing, and disinfecting in ECE.
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How to Transition 10% to Green Cleaning
A GSA Guide to help you achieve Tier 1 of the Green Cleaning Metric in START, through planning, implementation and evaluation and additional resources.
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Healthy, Green Purchasing for Asthma Prevention
From the US Center for Green Schools, a guide to help schools & districts introduce and implement health-informed purchasing practices into school policy.
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Additional Resources
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Customizable templates, audit forms & spreadsheets
From New York OGS, free resources for assessing buildings, conducting custodial inspections, inventorying cleaning products, surveying housekeeping satisfaction, and a sample of a building entryway policy.
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