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Refillable, rechargeable, portable. Uses compressed air instead of hazardous hydrocarbon propellants. Reduces waste and may save money spent on disposable aerosol cans. Non-empty aerosol cans can be hazardous to sanitation workers.
Guide for SF Green Businesses: You're ALLOWED to use this green product.
Manufacturer(s): Wurth
When to use it : In repair shops for those uses where aerosol formulations are necessary, such as for cleaning brake assemblages still on the vehicle.
Propylene glycol antifreeze is less toxic than ethylene glycol antifreeze. Recycled antifreeze reuses a non-renewable resource, natural gas.
Guide for SF City Depts.: Try this SUGGESTED product. It meets City health & environmental standards.
Guide for SF Green Businesses: You're ALLOWED to use this green product.
Get automotive products picked up for recycling & order recycling posters.
Unlike petroleum-based solvents, aqueous cleaners are typically nonflammable and contain little or no volatile organic compounds (VOC) that create poor indoor air quality. Using aqueous cleaning solutions complies with BAAQMD VOC limits.
Guide for SF City Depts.: You’re REQUIRED by law to buy this if using City funds.
Guide for SF Green Businesses: You're ALLOWED to use this green product.
Guide for SF City Depts.: You’re REQUIRED by law to buy this if using City funds.
Guide for SF Green Businesses: You're ALLOWED to use this green product.
Manufacturer(s): Various
When to use it : Clip to rims of wheels to balance the tires.
City Depts. should recycle metal (especially if it has lead) through the SF Virtual Warehouse: warehouse.sfenvironment.org/home
Recycled rubber mud flaps last longer than plastic ones.
Guide for SF City Depts.: Try this SUGGESTED product. It meets City health & environmental standards.
Guide for SF Green Businesses: You're ALLOWED to use this green product.
Washable instead of disposable.
Guide for SF City Depts.: Try this SUGGESTED product. It meets City health & environmental standards
Guide for SF Green Businesses: You're ALLOWED to use this green product.
Manufacturer(s): Ameripride
When to use it : Call Ameripride to get lightly or heavily soaked towels washed
Refillable, rechargeable, portable. Uses compressed air instead of hazardous hydrocarbon propellants. Reduces waste and may save money spent on disposable aerosol cans. Non-empty aerosol cans can be hazardous to sanitation workers.
Guide for SF City Depts.: Try this SUGGESTED product. It meets City health & environmental standards
Guide for SF Green Businesses: You're ALLOWED to use this green product.
Manufacturer(s): Milwaukee Sprayer or manufacturer of similar products
When to use it : Use to apply bulk cleaners, degreasers, penetrating oils, solvents and lubricants.
Buying re-refined oil reduces our dependence on imported oil.
Guide for SF Green Businesses: You're ALLOWED to use this green product.
Get automotive products picked up for recycling & order recycling posters.
Non-aerosol form, aqueous based. Does not contain more than 6% volatile organic chemicals (VOCs) in ready to use form
Guide for SF City Depts.: Try this SUGGESTED product. It meets City health & environmental standards.
Guide for SF Green Businesses: You're ALLOWED to use this green product.
Does not contain petroleum or chlorinated solvents, caustic, butyl, or phosphates
Guide for SF Green Businesses: You're ALLOWED to use this green product.
Manufacturer(s): Zep
When to use it : Cleans concrete, metal, plastic. Can be used with the Wurth Refillomat Aerosol Refillable Can System
In aqueous or powder form, has a pH in the range of 2 to 11. Does not contain sodium hydroxide, naphtha, diethanolamine, n-methyl pyrrolidone, or other hazardous materials, and has less than 4% volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in ready to use form.
Guide for SF City Depts.: Try this SUGGESTED product. It meets City health & environmental standards
Guide for SF Green Businesses: You're ALLOWED to use this green product.
Manufacturer(s): Minuteman/PowerBoss Inc.
When to use it : Degrease your shop floor
While it takes 22 gallons of oil to make a new tire, retreading a truck tire only uses seven gallons of oil. Retreaded tires can also help divert thousands of scrap tires from disposal each year.
Guide for SF Green Businesses: You're ALLOWED to use this green product.
Manufacturer(s): Various
When to use it : SF Central Shops uses it on all vehicles, including emergency vehicles that are not steering axel tires.
Does not contain d-limonene, petroleum, or chlorinated solvents
Guide for SF Green Businesses: You're ALLOWED to use this green product.
Manufacturer(s): Zep
When to use it : Removes heavy grease, tar, and oils. Can be used with the Wurth Refillomat Aerosol Refillable Can System.
Non-aerosol. Has a flashpoint above 140 degress F. Does not contain glycol ethers, n-methyl pyrrolidone, or other highly toxic ingredients, and has less than 45% volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in mixed for use form.
Guide for SF City Depts.: Try this SUGGESTED product. It meets City health & environmental standards.
Guide for SF Green Businesses: You're ALLOWED to use this green product.
Manufacturer(s): PCI of America
Ask the manufacturer for the product Material Safety Data Sheet so you can avoid hexane, a neurotoxin.
Guide for SF Green Businesses: You're ALLOWED to use this green product.
When to use it : http://webfiles.acuitysp.com/PSR/zeppsr/psr_1277.PDF
Ask the manufacturer for the product Material Safety Data Sheet so you can avoid cancer-causing chemicals & reproductive toxins in the CA Prop 65 list (e.g., toluene, n-propyl bromide and ethylbenzene).
Guide for SF City Depts.: Try this SUGGESTED product. It meets City health & environmental standards
Guide for SF Green Businesses: You're ALLOWED to use this green product.
Various Propylene Glycol Antifreeze (some made from rec... 
