Who uses the GreenScreen™?

• Hewlett-Packard

  - HP 2011 Global Citizenship Report

  When replacing substances of concern, we seek to identify alternatives with a reduced risk of potential human health and environmental impacts that also meet our performance and cost criteria. To support these objectives, we have developed an integrated assessment approach to analyzing potential replacements for substances of concern. Established in 2007, our approach begins with a hazard-based screening step to help rule out alternative options that are of equal or greater concern than the substances that they would replace. This comparative chemical hazard screening is based on the GreenScreenTM for Safer Chemicals framework developed by the nongovernmental organization (NGO) Clean Production Action.

  Integrating the GreenScreen framework into our overall alternatives assessment protocol has enabled HP to more easily select replacement materials with a reduced risk of human health and environmental impacts. We have completed more than 130 assessments since the program began. Projects in 2011 included evaluating PVC-free power cords, process cleaners, and general plastic resins. .

• Software Providers
  • GreenWercs
    The GreenWERCS software chemical ranking tool is used by Wal-Mart and other companies. The GreenScreen List Translator has been incorporated into this tool as another information source.
  • Pharos
    The Pharos Chemical and Material Library incorporates the GreenScreen List Translator into its chemical hazard screening.
• US State Regulatory Agencies
  • Washington State

    The state of Washington, USA used the GreenScreen™ as an alternatives assessment tool to determine if safer alternatives to Deca-BDE, a flame retardant used in television casings and upholstery, existed on the market. A state-wide ban on products containing this class of chemicals takes effect January 2011. For more information click here to download (.pdf file) Alternatives to Deca-BDE in Televisions and Computers and Residential Upholstered Furniture: Identifying safer and technically feasible alternatives to the flame retardant called Deca-BDE used in the electronic enclosures of televisions and computers and in residential upholstered furniture. Washington Department of Ecology and Department of Health. Final Report December 29, 2008 (.pdf file)

  • Maine

    The State of Maine, USA unanimously adopted proposed regulations in February 2010 to protect the health of children by ensuring that chemicals of high concern in consumer products are replaced with safer alternatives.  The GreenScreen™ is endorsed as a good substitution assessment tool in the Regulation of Chemicals Use in Children’s Products.

• U.S. Environmental Protection Agency: Design for Environment
  Clean Production Action founded the GreenScreen™ assessment criteria in the U.S. EPA's Design for Environment (DfE) approach. CPA and DfE work closely on the development of chemical alternatives assessment criteria and CPA serves as technical advisor to the DfE Alternatives Assessments Partnerships looking at chemicals of concern as part of the EPA's enhanced chemicals management program.

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