Every aspect of our daily lives, from the food we consume to the vehicles we use, influences the health of our world.

The harsh chemicals in many cleaning products come with an invisible price tag—polluting our water, air, soil, and climate long after we rinse them away.

A splash of bathroom cleaner here, a squirt of kitchen spray there.

It’s such a routine part of life that we rarely pause to think about what happens after we’ve scrubbed, rinsed, and moved on with our day. 

Every day we flush MILLIONS OF LITRES of contaminated water down our sinks, toilets,, we put washing tablets in our washing machines, dish washer, wipe our kitchen tops, floors, windows, wash our cars with products that all contain some chemical.

Many of the most popular and well-known cleaning products, toiletries and cosmetics contain ingredients that are / can be harmful to the environment.

This industry is supported by an advertising industry that promotes these products with little attention to what they do to the environment.

The introduction of these chemicals into waterways can lead to:

Eutrophication: Excess nutrients, such as phosphates, can cause algal blooms that deplete oxygen levels, leading to dead zones where aquatic life cannot survive.

Pre- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are a large, complex group of synthetic chemicals that have been used in consumer products around the world since about the 1950s.

There are thousands of variations in PFAS chemicals.

For example, PFAS are used to keep food from sticking to packaging or cookware, make clothes and carpets resistant to stains, and create firefighting foam that is more effective.

PFAS molecules have a chain of linked carbon and fluorine atoms.

Because the carbon-fluorine bond is one of the strongest, these chemicals do not degrade easily in the environment.

All of these products should be (under law ) summited to be tested to certify they are environmental friendly.

This could be done by the United Nations, costing nothing as a fee could be charged to qualify for the certification.

Once certified they would carry an environmental stamp.

It’s time to clean responsibly. It’s time to clean smarter.

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