Who uses the GreenScreen™?

• Hewlett-Packard

  HP is now the world's leading practitioner of the GreenScreen™ tool
  - 2009 HP Global Citizenship Report

  Hewlett-Packard (HP) began using the GreenScreen™ to assess alternatives to chemicals being restricted in their products and has assessed more than 50 replacement materials for brominated and chlorinated flame retardants, phthalates, PVC and other substances of concern. HP is now the world's leading practitioner of the GreenScreen™ tool, and the results of assessments have begun to inform decision making on key replacement materials. HP has adopted the GreenScreen™ as the primary tool for alternatives assessment to enable informed substitution for substances eliminated from HP products.

• Wal-Mart

  Wal-Mart’s Chemical Intensive Products workgroup has developed a chemical screen based on the GreenScreen™ approach.

  The GreenScreen™ approach first ‘brings up the bottom’ by screening chemicals against the Red List of Chemicals of High Concern

  

  Inspired by the GreenScreen™ approach, Wal-Mart introduced in May 2009 a Chemical Screening Tool to Walmart Buyers and Walmart Suppliers, called “GreenWERCS”. The information the tool provides is based on pre-identified scoring and weighting of chemical product characteristics with the initial focus on:
  PBT’s (Persistent and Bioaccumulative Toxic Substances)
  CMR’s (Carcinogenicity; Mutagenicity; Reproductive Toxicity)
  Hazardous waste implications of chemical based products.

  Buyers can assess how suppliers score against their competitors’ scores as well as initiate a dialogue with companies. The GreenWERCS portal will accommodate the transmission of summary data results to other participating retailers in the program. Wal-Mart’s stated goal is to encourage constant improvement on chemicals use within their supply chain.

• 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.

  • California

    California’s Regulation for Safer Consumer Products is the result of two years of input and collaboration from stakeholders, scientists, environmental groups and the public which began in 2008. It is the nation’s most comprehensive proposed regulation aimed at making consumer products less toxic by setting up a process for prioritizing chemicals of concern and fostering the design of safer products sold in California.   In September 2010 the 92 page proposed regulation  went up for final review and the GreenScreen™ for Safer Chemicals is endorsed as a Tier 1 Alternatives Assessment tool (page 18).  For more information visit the California Green Chemistry Initiative website.
    

• 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.