EPA Announces Safer Choice Award Winners

EPA's Safer Choice Partner of the Year Awards recognize outstanding achievement in advancing the design, manufacture, promotion and use of products with safer ingredients and in support of the Safer Choice program. Today, at the Annual Meeting of the Household & Commercial Products Association, EPA announced the 2018 Partner of the Year Award Winners:

• Booyah Clean, Harahan, LA;
• Boulder Clean, Boulder, CO;
• Brandless, Inc., San Francisco, CA;
• Breathe, Vernon, CA;
• The Honest Company, Santa Monica, CA;
• Jelmar, LLC, Skokie, IL;
• Local Hazardous Waste Management Program, Kings County, Seattle, WA;
• Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, WA;
• Simple Green, Huntington Beach, CA;
• Solugen, Inc., Houston, TX;
• State Industrial Products, Mayfield Heights, OH;
• Wegmans Food Markets, Inc., Rochester, NY.

The awards recognize program participants who have demonstrated leadership in furthering safer chemistry and products throughout the past year and promoting the Safer Choice label.

Program participants that submit complete applications were evaluated against the following five criteria:

1. Participation in the Safer Choice program
2. Use of the Safer Choice label
3. Promotion and use of products using the Safer Choice label
4. Outreach and education on the Safer Choice program to consumers and end-users
5. Innovations in safer chemistry and other efforts to advance the Safer Choice program

Responses were weighted and points assigned based on the applicant/award category. The full evaluation criteria are described in the application form.