CPA Publications

Factsheets

Clean Production Strategies series: (June 2009)

1. What is Clean Production? (2009)
2. Public Access to Information and the Right to Know (2009)
3. How Companies can Eliminate their Use of Toxic Chemicals (2009)

Apple Achieves Major Environmental Milestone (2009)

How Producer Responsibility for Product Take-Back can Promote Eco-Design (2008)

Progress toward PVC and BFR Elimination by Leading Electronic Manufacturers Selling Products in the US (2008)

Why We Need Green Chemistry

Why Promote Green Chemistry?

Toxic Chemicals In Household Dust (2006)

Reducing Toxic Chemicals in your Home (2004)

Legislation to Reduce Toxic Chemicals in Our Homes (2004)

GreenScreen™ Factsheet (.pdf)

GreenScreen™ Brochure (.pdf)

 

Reports

Healthy Business Strategies

Chemical Alternatives Assessment: Enabling Substitution to Safer Chemicals
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Greening Consumer Electronics: Moving Away from Bromine and Chlorine
Read how seven companies in the electronics sector have engineered environmental solutions to phase out brominated and chlorinated chemicals.
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“Healthy Business Strategies” Report (2006) Shows How Companies Can Thrive While Valuing Human Health and the Environment

Six business case studies show how companies are creating value by embedding concerns for human health and the environment into products. They are eliminating toxics, making innovative products, creating new partnerships and supporting policy reform.
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Creating Safe & Healthy Space: Selecting Materials that Support Healing, Mark Rossi, PhD and Tom Lent, September 2006
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Government Policies: Promoting Sustainable Chemicals & Materials (2006)
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Business NGO Working Group Guiding Principles for Chemicals Policy

Alternatives Assessment Framework of the Lowell Center for Sustainable Production (pdf)

 

Green Chemicals

“GreenScreen™ for Safer Chemicals” Report

CPA’s GreenScreen™ is a new comparative assessment tool that guides a precautionary approach to how we evaluate chemicals. With specific benchmarking criteria, companies can make more informed decisions about chemicals that ultimately will lead to greener chemicals coming to the market place.
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“Sick of Dust” Report Finds Hazardous Chemicals in Household Dust

The first U.S. study to test household dust for a new and wide variety of chemicals found that we are exposed to a “toxic cocktail” every day in our homes, breathing dust emitted from commonly used products — and it’s all legal.
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Brominated Flame Retardants in Dust on Computers: The Case for Safer Chemicals and Better Computer Design urges the high tech industry to move faster to find safer materials.
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The Fight for Substitution Within REACH and What was Finally Decided. Sept 2007.
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The Louisville Charter for Safer Chemicals (www.louisvillecharter.org) lists six important criteria for a sustainable chemicals policy. The first criteria is Making the Substitution Principle the Cornerstone of Sustainable Chemicals Policies and Moving Towards Clean Production and Innovation.
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Safer Chemicals Within Reach: Using the Substitution Principle to Drive Green Chemistry. This report shows how to substitute safer materials for hazardous chemicals and gives case studies of industries who are moving to safer chemical practices. This report is being used in Europe to lobby for substitution legislation within the upcoming new chemical policy, REACH, but its relevance is useful to all governments, industries, and NGOs around the world.
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The Substitution Principle: How to Really Promote Safer Chemical Use.
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Sustainable Materials

Moving Towards Sustainable Plastics: A Report Card on the Six Leading Automakers. This report ranks Toyota ahead of other car manufacturers in its use of renewable-based plastic and recycling.
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Environmentally Preferable Products in a Closed Loop Economy

New producer take back Tool Kit available to help governments and communities learn how to save money and produce less toxic waste. Download the tool kit files:
EPR Tool Kit (black & white) (PDF)
EPR Tool Kit (color) (PDF)
Supplemental CD Files (.zip collection of PDFs)

 

"Citizen's Guide to Clean Production by B Thorpe (2000),” at University Massachuesetts Lowell Center for Sustainable Production.
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Presentations

The GreenScreen™ for Safer Chemicals
Green chemistry and Cradle to Cradle Design
The Fight for the Substitution Principle with REACH
Leading Businesses Select Safer Chemicals
How Demand is building for Green Chemistry solutions
Can we shift to the Solar Future?
Clean Production solutions versus Incineration
The problems with PVC plastic
Ten Steps to Zero Waste in Bhutan

 

Archives

“Beyond Recycling: Why We Need Producer Responsibility in North America.” Talk by Beverley Thorpe, Clean Production Action, on the occasion of the celebration of the Berkeley Ecology Center’s ‘Thirty Years of Curbside Recycling,” Berkeley, California. November 20, 2003.
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