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Easy green cleaning

Natural cleaning or 'green cleaning' is a way to clean your home with fewer cleaning products and using safer alternatives - producing less waste and reducing the need for harmful chemicals.

Many household cleaners use chemicals that can affect human health and the environment, as well as creating packaging waste that ends up in landfill. In fact, we don't really need the range of cleaners found in most homes. To clean well, cheaply and safely throughout the house, all you need are a few basic ingredients. The Easy green cleaning guide tells you what you need to prepare your own green cleaning kit and how to make the most of it around the home. More information on green cleaning is available on Our Environment - It's a living thing website.

English language:

• Laser print file (11741CleanENG.pdf, 2011, 1Mb)
• Professional print file (11741CleanENGprt.pdf, 2011, 2Mb)
• Professional print for council co-branding (11741CleanENGcb.pdf, 2011, 3Mb)
• Guide to logo placement for co-branding (GuideToPlacement.pdf, 553Kb)
• Accessible Word document (13353GreenClean.doc, 64Kb)

Other languages:

Laser print files

• Arabic (11062RecyARAB.pdf, 2011, 2Mb)
• Assyrian (11092RecyASSY.pdf, 2011, 1.9Mb)
• Dari (11078RecyDARI.pdf, 2011, 1.6Mb)
• Greek (11084RecyGRE.pdf, 2011, 1.7Mb)
• Italian  (11066RecyITAL.pdf, 2011, 1.5Mb)
• Japanese (11080RecyJAP.pdf, 2011, 1.7Mb)
• Khmer (11088RecyKHMER.pdf, 2011, 2Mb)
• Korean  (11064RecyKOR.pdf, 2011, 2Mb)
• Lao  (11078RecyDARI.pdf, 2011, 4Mb)
• Portugese (11086RecyPORT.pdf, 2011, 1.6Mb)
• Russian (11094RecyRUSS.pdf, 2011, 1.6Mb)
• Serbian (11076RecySERB.pdf, 2011, 1.5Mb)
• Simple Chinese (11097RecyTRACHI.pdf, 2011, 1.7Mb)
• Spanish (11090RecySPAN.pdf, 2011, 1.6Mb)
• Thai (11073CleanTHAI.pdf, 2.3Mb)
• Traditional Chinese (11100RecyCHI.pdf, 2011, 2.7Mb)
• Turkish (11070RecyTURK.pdf, 2011, 1.5Mb)
• Vietnamese (11068RecyVIET.pdf, 2011, 1.5Mb)

  For professional print quality and council co-branding files please contact:
  Sustainability Programs
  Program Support
  Ph: (02) 8837 6000
  Email: sustainability@environment.nsw.gov.au