Healthy Business Strategies

Click here for resources, case studies and strategies that will help businesses create value by embedding the concerns for human health and the environment into their products. Healthy business strategies have the potential to differentiate company brands from competitors, lower costs across the life cycle, enhance employee and customer loyalty and increase market share value.

Safer Products Project

CPA is working collaboratively with groups across the globe to build support for safer chemicals. Click here to see what chemicals are commonly found in household dust, why we should care about these chemicals that pose needless health risks and how companies are moving towards safer alternatives.

Flame Retardants

Over the last decade, the scientific community has closely monitored the use and exposure to brominated flame retardants (BFRs)—a large class of hazardous chemicals used to fire retard consumer products. Click here to learn more about how companies can innovate and find safer alternatives.

Green Chemistry

We now all contain hazardous chemicals in our bodies and in our environment. Why? Because the chemical industry has been allowed to produce chemicals with no attention to their environmental or human health effect. Green Chemistry promotes the innovative design of new chemicals that reduce or eliminate the use or generation of hazardous substances. To learn about Green Chemistry trainings, developments and other resources, click here.

Producer Take Back

A new policy is gaining popularity because of its environmental gains, its cost savings and its societal benefits. Producer take-back will reverse our escalating waste generation by making manufacturers responsible for taking back their consumer products at the end of life to reuse and recycle. Click here to learn more.

Electronics

Due to shorter life spans of electronic products, and the absence of a domestic recycling infrastructure to process discarded equipment, electronic waste is the fastest growing, most toxic waste stream in the world. Click here to learn more about the policies and market drivers that are needed to promote sustainability in the electronics sector.

How Producer Responsibility for Product Take-back Can Promote Eco-Design
This factsheet describes the important criteria in take-back policies that are needed to create the right incentives for manufacturers to make products more durable, recyclable and less hazardous. Click here to download

Green Screen for Safer Chemicals Report
The Green Screen is a new tool for identifying safer chemicals. We apply the Green Screen to the flame retardants: decaBDE, BPADP, and RDP. Of the three, RDP is the environmentally preferable alternative. Click on the image above to read more.

CONFERENCE
THIS FALL:
Nutec: Nutrients - Upcycling - Triple-Top-Line - Eco-effectiveness - Community
Can products and materials be healthy for humans and the environment, combine functionality and aesthetics, be produced with fairness in every aspect – and be economically successful at the same time? Learn more about a unique conference CPA is co-sponsoring.

Steps to Clean Production
Clean Production is a way of designing products and manufacturing processes in harmony with natural ecological cycles. It aims to eliminate toxic wastes and inputs and promotes the sustainable use of renewable energy and materials. And it’s all doable! Click here to explore the wealth of information inside our Four Steps to Clean Production.