Toxic Smart Solutions

Keeping you, your home and the environment toxic-free!

Our ToxicSmart program is designed to help you reduce the impacts of toxic chemicals on your family and the environment. It's easy! Here's how:

Printable ToxicSmart illustrated info guides (8 pages each, PDF):

• What Does Clean Really Mean? - for your home
  • Punjabi version
  • Chinese version
• What's Your Poison? - for your garden
• Solving the Solvent Problem - for your workshop

The ToxicSmart Resource Guide: a step-by-step guide for community groups wishing to bring ToxicSmart to their own community.

For more information on the program, please email here.

Additional Tools & Resources

• Clean? - a video on household cleaners
• ToxicSmart Glossary of Ingredients: toxic chemicals you might find in your home, along with their impacts
• The Scoop on Laundry: Use Less, Save More (laundry detergent reduction program)
• Quick tips to reduce toxins in your home
• Alternatives to Pesticides
• Workplace toxins: Cleaners and Toxins (Labour Environmental Alliance Society)
• The Cancer Smart Consumer Guide (Labour Environmental Alliance Society)
• Environmental Working Group's Cosmetic safety database
• Healthy homes, gardens and schools (Washington Toxics Coalition) 
• Cleaning Supplies Can Contaminate Classroom Air (Environmental Working Group)
• Detox for your home (Women to Women)