These environmentally preferable pads require only neutral cleaner or water to effectively deep scrub and remove most floor finishes, leaving a clean surface ready for refinishing, the cleaning process is easy, and because there is no slippery residue from strippers, no stripper contact with skin and clothing, and no stripper clean up, the product helps enhance safety and productivity, environmentally preferable products are defined in the instructions for implementing executive order 13423, titled strengthening federal environmental, energy, and transportation management as products or services that have a lesser or reduced effect on human health and the environment when compared with competing products or services that serve the same purpose, this comparison may consider raw materials acquisition, product, manufacturing, packaging, distribution, reuse, operation, maintenance, or disposal of the product or service.
