Health Implications
There are serious health implications associated with buildings and their operations including cleaning practices. Greening your property can benefit the health of your guests and meeting participants, your staff and the local community, including local rivers, lakes and wildlife. Many commonly used interior design elements, cleaning chemicals and personal care products raise adverse human health issues, including asthma, respiratory difficulty and depressed red cell counts.
Be a good ancestor.
Dr. Howard Frumkin, Director, National Center for Environmental Health/Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
There are over 80,000 chemicals in commerce in the U.S., and only a tiny fraction has been evaluated for human health and environmental impacts. Scientists do not have the tools to assess how exposure to hundreds of chemicals every day affects humans. Products you may use to control weeds and pests are designed to kill ~ they are poisons. As a result, minimizing or eliminating their use should be part of your environmental management plan.
The same hazards raised by workplace chemicals, many of which can trigger asthma or contain acids, are also found at home. Children are particularly susceptible to chemical exposure because they are rapidly growing with high metabolic rates and undeveloped detoxifying organs.