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EPA Announces 2024 Safer Choice Partner of the Year Award Winners
WASHINGTON – Today, Sept. 24, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
announced 43 Safer Choice Partner of the Year award winners across 20 states
and the District of Columbia, recognizing their achievements in the design,
manufacture, promotion, selection and use of cleaners, detergents and other
products with safer chemicals.
The Safer Choice program and label help consumers and purchasers at facilities
find cleaning and other products with chemical ingredients that are safer for
human health and the environment. Applicants for this year’s awards were
encouraged to show how their work promotes environmental justice, bolsters
resilience to the impacts of climate change, results in cleaner air or water,
improves drinking water quality or advances innovation in packaging.
“We all deserve to clean our homes, schools and other facilities with
cleaning products that use safer ingredients, like those that have earned
EPA’s Safer Choice label,” said EPA Office of Chemical Safety and
Pollution Prevention Deputy Assistant Administrator for Pollution Prevention
Jennie Romer. “I want to congratulate this year’s Safer Choice Partner of
the Year award winners for going above and beyond to protect public health and
the environment and to show their support for making products with safer
ingredients accessible for all people.”
Improving Access to Products with Safer Ingredients
Many Safer Choice partners recognized today have shown leadership in
developing affordable products that use safer chemical ingredients and work
well. Several winners made their Safer Choice-certified products available at
low-cost retailers in stores and online. One winner highlighted the Safer
Choice label in consumer product coupons. Another winner began reformulating
their line of more affordable cleaning products to use safer ingredients.
These efforts help ensure products with safer ingredients are accessible to
more people at more affordable prices. 
Using Products with Safer Ingredients in Communities
Winners also made achievements in protecting communities, including workers.
For example, two cleaning service providers, including a minority-owned
business, used Safer Choice-certified products in their facilities’ cleaning
work. These efforts help protect the workers who use cleaning products
throughout the day and the people in the buildings being cleaned. In addition,
Tribal and local and national nongovernmental organization winners advanced
environmental justice by increasing awareness of the Safer Choice label among
tribal elders and tribal facilities, childcare centers in disadvantaged
communities and Spanish-speaking communities.
Advancing Innovation in Safer Chemistry and Sustainable Packaging
Winners of the Safer Choice Partner of the Year Award have also shown
leadership and innovation in safer chemistry and sustainability. One
innovator winner upcycled seafood waste to create two safer chemicals. These
two chitosan-based chemicals can be used in wastewater treatment products and
are now included on EPA’s Safer Chemical ingredients list. Several winners
also reduced plastic use with plastic-free packaging, concentrated formulas
and reusable or refillable cleaning bottles. One winner offers refill
cartridges for their reusable cleaning bottles that reduce plastic waste by
83% each time they are used.
A list of the 2024 Partner of the Year award winners can be found
below. Learn more about the 2024 Safer Choice Partner of the Year award
winners and watch videos highlighting their accomplishments.
List of Winners
American Cleaning Institute, Washington, D.C. 
Apple, Cupertino, Calif. 
Blueland, New York, N.Y. 
Bona US, Englewood, Colo. 
Booyah Clean, Harahan, La. 
Case Medical, Bloomfield, N.J. 
Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, Environmental Protection Service, Durant, Okla. 
Church & Dwight Co., Inc., Ewing, N.J. 
City of Gresham, Oregon and Pollution Prevention Resource Center, Gresham,
Ore. and Everett, Wash.
The Clorox Company, Oakland, Calif.
Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, Division of
Environmental Health and Sustainability, Denver, Colo. 
ECOS, Cypress, Calif.
EnvirOx, Danville, Ill.
Hazardous Waste Management Program, King County, Wash. 
Henkel Corporation, Rocky Hill, Conn.
Holloway House, Inc., Fortville, Ind.
The Home Depot, Atlanta, Ga.
Household & Commercial Products Association, Washington, D.C. 
IndSpyre Solutions, Inc., Lawrenceville, Ga.
ISSA, The Worldwide Cleaning Industry Association, Rosemont, Ill.
JAWS International, Ltd., a Division of Canberra Corporation, Toledo, Ohio 
Jelmar, LLC, Skokie, Ill.
Mighty Fire Breaker LLC, Lima, Ohio
North Central Educational Service District, Wenatchee, Wash.
Novonesis, Franklinton, N.C. 
Optimal Cleaning Solutions, Stockbridge, Wis.
Oregon Department of Environmental Quality and Pollution Prevention Resource
Center, Portland, Ore. and Everett, Wash.
The Procter & Gamble Company, Cincinnati, Ohio 
PurposeBuilt Brands, Gurnee, Ill.
Roger McFadden and Associates, LLC, Canby, Ore.
Rust-Oleum Corporation, Vernon Hills, Ill.
SEIU Education & Support Fund, Washington, D.C.
Seventh Generation, Burlington, Vt. 
Solutex, Inc., Sterling, Va.
SOZIO, Piscataway, N.J. 
Spartan Chemical Company, Maumee, Ohio 
State Industrial Products, Mayfield Heights, Ohio 
Tidal Vision Products Inc., Bellingham, Wash.
Toxic-Free Future, Seattle, Wash. 
Toxics Use Reduction Institute, Lowell, Mass.
Verde, Phoenix, Ariz.
WAXIE Sanitary Supply, San Diego, Calif. 
Women for a Healthy Environment, Pittsburgh, Pa.
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