And as time goes on, it’s becoming a necessity. Already, legislation nationwide is mandating environmentally-friendly changes in government facilities as well as municipalities, day cares/nurseries, schools and more. Even the private sector has started to focus on—and often insist upon—a more “green” lifestyle. The shift in attitude will take some by surprise, but companies like mine have capitalized on this window of opportunity.

Currently, less than 10% of professional cleaners are using a green cleaning process. Fresh Start Home Services is one of the few professional carpet cleaners in the Atlanta area that have embraced green and natural carpet cleaning.

Fresh Start Home Services offers green and non-toxic carpet cleaning services to Marietta, Canton, Cherokee County, Cobb County, Kennesaw, Bridgemill, Acworth and most of Northwest Metropolitan Atlanta.

Going Beyond Green Carpet Cleaning…

What good is a green carpet cleaning product if the way you manufacture it is harmful to the environment? In manufacturing, what is left behind after a product is produced is called its footprint. Car manufacturers leave behind mineral quarries stripped of iron ore down to the earth’s bone. Makers of plastic need petroleum, which means mile after mile of oil fields pumping crude oil out of the ground. For many people, just the word “manufacturing” conjures up images of smoke stacks spewing pollution into the air. That is their footprint.

But at Fresh Start, my focus goes beyond simply green carpet cleaning to green manufacturing. Every process used to create Planet Guard products has a minimal impact on the surrounding air, water and land. Even my product containers are made from recycled materials and are designed to be recycled again after use. By setting higher levels of green manufacturing standards, I feel I can make an even bigger contribution to the environment. Planet Guard products are manufactured and designed to clean with minimal environmental impact on the earth we all share.

Fresh Start is dedicated to using products now that will stand up to stricter green carpet cleaning requirements down the road. Today, the green carpet cleaning standards already in place are being closely scrutinized; it is likely that newer, tighter requirements will soon be in place.

Products that are currently classified as “environmentally friendly” and self-proclaimed as “green” may have to adjust their current formulations just to keep up with new regulations. But the Planet Guard products I use don’t just meet today’s requirements, they are designed to meet and exceed tomorrow’s as well.

Green Certified Carpet Cleaning Products

That is why, for example, my carpet cleaning products are Green Seal certified, Environmental Choice certified, Envirodesic certified and even carry The Carpet and Rug Institute Seal of Approval.

The carpet cleaning products that Fresh Start brings to your location are safe, but have no doubt that they are also effective. In fact, if I didn’t know these were green carpet cleaning products, I would still purchase and use them because of their outstanding cleaning performance.

Most of the products you use today contain fillers which offer no cleaning ability and are simply used to bulk up the product. Even in concentrated products, fillers can make up 50% to 90% of the formulation. That’s because the active ingredients in non-green cleaners are so powerful that manufacturers can use less (and save money), then add cheap fillers to bulk up the product. But green cleaning products need more of their safer active ingredients to help them clean as well as non-green cleaners with their more caustic formulations.

More active product means less filler. The result is environmentally healthier cleaning products that clean carpet just as well, if not better, than their non-green counterparts.

Your Green, Environmentally Safe Carpet and Upholstery Protector.