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- About the DfE Label
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- DfE's Alternatives Assessments
Program - BPA in Thermal Paper
- Flame Retardant Alternativesto decaBDE
- Flame Retardant Alternativesfor Hexabromocyclododecane(HBCD)
- Flame Retardants in CircuitBoards
- Flame Retardants in Furniture
- Nonylphenol Ethoxylate (NPE)Surfactants
- Alternatives to Certain Phthalates
- DfE Life-Cycle Assessments
- Lithium-ion Batteries &Nanotechnology
- Safer Detergents Stewardship
Initiative - DfE's Best Practices Partnerships
- DfE's Alternatives Assessments
- Resources
EPA's Design for the Environment program helps consumers, businesses, and institutional buyers identify cleaning and other products that perform well and are safer for human health and the environment.
Look for products with the DfE label and protect your family's health and the planet.
Find Products with the DfE Label
Design for the Environment Videos
EPA's Pollution Prevention PSA
DfE Webcast from 9/20/2011:
"Enhancements to the EPA's Design for the Environment Safer Product Labeling Program"
What's New with DfE?
September 8, 2014 -- We are redesigning our Safer Product Label and we want to hear from you. See the latest designs on our Label Redesign webpage and submit your feedback. Read the press release.
June 12, 2014 – EPA, through DfE, issued:
- Final DfE Alternatives Assessment for Hexabromocyclododecane (HBCD) (PDF) (230pp, 1.76MB) that evaluates and compares potential hazards associated with HBCD and three alternatives. Read more.
- Draft update of a previous alternative assessment on flame retardants used in flexible polyurethane foam (PDF) (840pp, 8.05MB), which will be available for public review and comment until August 11, 2014. Please submit comments to Docket No. EPA-HQ-2014-0389 via www.regulations.gov. Read more.
- Q. & A. Consumer Fact Sheet on Flame Retardants