Creating Safe and Healthy Spaces: Selecting Materials that Support Healing

Cover......Page 1
Credits......Page 2
Healing from the inside out......Page 3
Material of concern: PVC......Page 5
Substitution unlocks bottom-line gains......Page 6
The decision: Catalyze innovation......Page 7
Getting started: Setting goals......Page 8
Criteria for the transition to green materials......Page 9
Table 1: Green Materials Hierarchy for Healthcare......Page 11
Specifying preferable plastics......Page 13
Specifying low VOC materials......Page 17
Challenges on the path to green materials......Page 18
Reaping the big bottom-line benefits......Page 19
Author Biographies......Page 20
Notes......Page 21
Appendix 1: Greening the Cleaning Must Not List......Page 25
Twelve Principles of Green Chemistry......Page 26
Appendix 3: Stockholm Convention Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs); Persistent, Bioaccumulative, and Toxic (PBT); and Very Persistent and Very
Bioaccumulative (vPvB) Lists......Page 27