Green Insulation Guide Choosing products with recycled content and low VOCs Why Should You Choose Green Insulation Products? To Improve Indoor Air Quality Over the next few years, insulation will be added to thousands of California homes to make them more comfortable and energy efficient. When selecting insulation products, it’s important to consider not just energy efficiency but also how the product will affect the home’s indoor air quality. Insulation materials occupy a large volume of space inside a home’s walls, floors, and attic or roof area. Some insulation products emit harmful chemicals such as formaldehyde. When the air pressure changes between the inside and outside of buildings, air and chemicals emitted from insulation can move through walls, floors and ceilings and pass into the home—a process known as infiltration. The products listed in this Green Insulation Guide are a safer choice. They emit ultra-low or undetectable levels of harmful chemicals, which helps keep indoor air cleaner and may help prevent diseases like asthma and cancer. To Promote Recycling & Recycled-Content Products Green insulation products with high levels of post- consumer recycled content require less energy to manufacture than similar products that don’t have recycled content. Plus they support consumer recycling programs by putting discarded materials like glass bottles to good use. What Makes These Products Green? This Green Insulation Guide highlights environ- mentally preferable building insulation for use in residential building energy upgrades and retrofits. The building insulation products listed in this Guide are certified through third-party testing to: ▪ Emit ultra-low amounts of volatile organic compounds (VOCs)* ▪ Have a minimum of 30% post-consumer recycled content Other chemicals of concern may be present in insulation. New screening criteria may be added to this guide when appropriate hazard evaluation standards are identified. *Conforms to California Department of Public Health, Environmental Health Laboratory Branch Standard Method V1.1 - 2010 (CA Specification 01350) using the single family residence scenario found in Appendix B (www.cal-iaq.org/vocs/standard- method). Unfaced Fiberglass Roll Insulation – Photo courtesy of Johns Mansville PROPINK® L77 Loosefill Insulation – Photo Courtesy Owens Corning
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Green Insulation Guide Choosing products with recycled content
and low VOCs
Why Should You Choose Green
Insulation Products?
To Improve Indoor Air Quality
Over the next few years, insulation will be added to
thousands of California homes to make them more
comfortable and energy efficient. When selecting
insulation products, it’s important to consider not just
energy efficiency but also how the product will affect the
home’s indoor air quality.
Insulation materials occupy a large volume of space
inside a home’s walls, floors, and attic or roof area. Some
insulation products emit harmful chemicals such as
formaldehyde. When the air pressure changes between
the inside and outside of buildings, air and chemicals
emitted from insulation can move through walls, floors
and ceilings and pass into the home—a process known
as infiltration.
The products listed in this Green Insulation Guide are a
safer choice. They emit ultra-low or undetectable levels of
harmful chemicals, which helps keep indoor air cleaner
and may help prevent diseases like asthma and cancer.
To Promote Recycling & Recycled-Content Products
Green insulation products with high levels of post-
consumer recycled content require less energy to
manufacture than similar products that don’t have
recycled content. Plus they support consumer recycling
programs by putting discarded materials like glass bottles
to good use.
What Makes These Products Green?
This Green Insulation Guide highlights environ-mentally preferable building insulation for use in residential building energy upgrades and retrofits. The building insulation products listed in this Guide are certified through third-party testing to:
▪ Emit ultra-low amounts of volatile organic compounds (VOCs)*
▪ Have a minimum of 30% post-consumer recycled content
Other chemicals of concern may be present in insulation. New screening criteria may be added to this guide when appropriate hazard evaluation standards are identified.
*Conforms to California Department of Public Health, Environmental Health Laboratory Branch Standard Method V1.1 -2010 (CA Specification 01350) using the single family residence scenario found in Appendix B (www.cal-iaq.org/vocs/standard-method).
Unfaced Fiberglass Roll Insulation – Photo courtesy of Johns Mansville
Products listed in this table are independently certified to meet both the ultra-low VOC emissions levels and the 30% post-consumer recycled content criteria.
Manufacturer/
Product Type Product Name
30%
PC
Ultra-
Low
VOC
Johns Manville/
fiberglass batts
Unfaced and Faced (kraft, MR) Batts
and Rolls, ComfortTherm® Batts
and Rolls, Easy Fit® Unfaced and
Kraft-Faced Batts
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Johns Manville/
blown-in fiberglass
Attic Protector®, ClimatePro®,
Spider® � �
Owens Corning/
blown-in fiberglass
PROPINK® L77 Loosefill Insulation,
PROPINK Complete™ Blown-in Wall
System using PROPINK® L77
Loosefill Insulation, AttiCat®
Expanding Blown-In PINK
FIBERGLAS™
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Green Insulation Products—Partial Conformance Products listed in this table are independently certified to meet either the
ultra-low VOC emissions or the 30% post-consumer recycled content