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Definition used for Federal Bio-based Product Preferred Provider Program (FB4P) A product determined to be a commercial or industrial product (other than food or feed) that is composed, in whole or in significant part, of biological products or renewable domestic agricultural materials (including plant, animal, and marine materials) or forestry materials. A bio-based Product:

• Relies on plant or animal materials as the main ingredient.
• The plants or animals utilized are a renewable resource.
• With some exceptions, generally do not contain synthetics, toxins or environmentally damaging substances.

Benefits of Bio-based Products

• Generally healthier and safer for the user.
• Generally healthier for the environment.
• Reduced dependence on imported oil.
• Generally helpful to the economy.
• Extremely helpful to the rural economy.

Environmental Benefits Because bio-based products by definition are made from renewable plant or animal materials rather than synthetic chemicals or hydrocarbons, they:

• Help reduce water and air pollution by displacing fossil fuels and feed-stocks.
• Pose little or no risks to animal, plant, and marine life in the event of a spill.
• Pose far less risk to both indoor and outdoor environments when in use.
• Pose far less burden on landfills in disposal due to biodegradability.

A colloid is a very small particle that is suspended in another medium and is a term given to a state of matter. Micelles are relatively small, spherical structures composed of anywhere from a few dozen to a few thousand molecules that attract one another to reduce surface tension. Colloidal micelles cleaners are a mixture of tiny particles of one substance dispersed and suspended in another substance. These particles are extremely small, highly active, and may remain in suspension indefinitely, unaffected by gravity. A practical example of a colloidal mixture is fog. If you look closely at fog you can see small droplets of water floating and constantly moving around in the air. This constant movement is one of the reasons colloidal cleaners work so well. There are two requirements that must be met in order to make a stable colloidal micelles cleaning compound: First, the particle size must be extremely small. Second, the particles must be made to repel each other. ABM Solutions’ formulations accomplish both criteria.

If the attraction to the colloidal cleaner is greater than the electromagnetic forces holding the materials together that are to be removed; the weaker material is broken up into billions of individual particles and taken into solution by the colloidal cleaner. Because the material to be cleaned is now a part of the colloidal mixture, it will not under normal circumstances recombine or redeposit on the surface to be cleaned. The power and versatility of bio-based colloidal cleaning compounds is amazing. ABM Solutions’ bio-based colloidal cleaners have an extremely wide range of application without the undesirable side effects of harsh toxic chemical cleaners.

VOCs are volatile organic compounds that vaporize at room temperature and react with nitrous oxides in the atmosphere to form smog. Government rules about volatile organic compounds (VOCs) grew out of the Clean Air Movement in Southern California, and deal only with ingredients of a product. Whether ingredients are toxic is not considered when drafting, implementing, and enforcing regulations limiting VOCs.

In order to achieve their claims of “ZERO VOCs”, some manufacturers take out certain solvents and substitute them with toxic chemicals that are not covered by the VOC regulations Problem Solved and Gentle Giant are formulated from 100% bio-based ingredients and do not contain volatile organic compounds.Problem Solved and Gentle Giant do not contain harmful acids, acetone, butyls, Isobutane, isoparaffinic hydrocarbons, halogenated hydrocarbon glycol ethers, hydrocarbons, ketones, methylene chloride, perchloroethylene, methyl ethyl ketone, or any other hazardous chemical or solvent compound.

100% VOC COMPLIANT PRODUCT

Problem Solved and Gentle Giant comply with OSHA 29 CFR – 1910.1200 Section (i) trade secrets, contains no hazardous components under OSHA or California Proposition 65 List. Under carcinogenicity: No ingredients are listed under IARC, ACGIH, NTP or OSHA as a carcinogen. Problem Solved and Gentle Giant cleaners comply 100% with all VOC regulations and with Executive Orders 12873, 13101 and 13134 for Environmentally preferable purchasing requirements

Because colloidal cleaners function on a molecule level and work differently than other cleaning compounds, the following are four important factors that should be considered in order to use colloidal cleaners effectively: Solution Strength: Some cleaning operations require that the colloidal cleaner be applied undiluted prior to adding water in order for the solution to break the surface tension of the material to be removed. Time: A colloidal cleaner needs time to fragment and take into solution the material to be removed. Temperature: An increase or decrease in temperature dramatically effects a colloidal cleaners effectiveness. Mechanical: Mechanical agitation of a colloidal cleaning solution while in contact with the material to be removed will normally increase its effectiveness.

Better Bio Solutions product formulations are a homogenous blends of bio-based ingredients that form super active colloidal cleaners. Better Bio Solutions’ cleaners are formulated from 100% bio-based ingredients and do not contain volatile organic compounds( V.O.C) , harmful acids, acetone, butyls, Isobutane, isoparaffinic hydrocarbons, halogenated hydrocarbon glycol ethers, hydrocarbons, ketones, methylene chloride, perchloroethylene, methyl ethyl ketone, or any other hazardous chemical or solvent compound.