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“SAFER ALTERNATIVES TO TOXIC SOLVENTS & TOXIC INGREDIENTS”

 

This series, hosted by greenUP!, Western Nevada College, and Catalina Products International, covers 1) navigating the Safer Choice label to get more industrially relevant products and 2) replacing toxic products and minimizing impacts to human health and the environment. Scientist Dr. Katy Wolf discusses alternatives explored, including soy-based cleaners, hydrocarbon with no aromatic component, acetone and acetone products, and dry ice cleaning and stripping. Suppliers and formulators join Katy in the presentations.

Webinar #1: Soy Based Products

May 8, 2025: “Soy Based Products” covers the many advantages of soy-based products:

  • Naturally occurring biobased materials
  • Close to zero VOC content
  • Can be used in a variety of applications
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Webinar #2: Cleaner and Coating Applications

June 5. 2025: “Cleaner and Coating Applications” covers a concrete floor coating for commercial buildings that minimizes dust generation, reducing lung disease in workers and community members. The webinar also covers a low-VOC content, low-toxicity cleaner available in aerosol and nonaerosol form. It can be used by auto repair shops as a brake cleaner, autobody shops for general purpose cleaning and spray gun cleaning and an industrial facility for surface preparation and repair and maintenance cleaning.

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Webinar #3: Dry Ice Cleaning

June 18, 2025: “Dry Ice Cleaning” covers dry ice blasting and dry ice liquid cleaning as a safer alternative to toxic and high-VOC content solvents. Technology substantially reduces waste generation. Case studies are presented for a variety of cleaning and certain stripping applications.