Campaigns Promoting Life Cycle Thinking

Clean Car Campaign (CCC)

Toxic chemicals are released during the production, use, and disposal of vehicles. CCC has identified opportunities for the auto industry to produce vehicles that are cleaner throughout their life cycle. In a years time, the campaign helped auto manufacturers reduce the use of mercury in the car, in addition to securing a federal tax credit for consumers who buy hybrids like the Toyota Prius and Honda Civic. For more information, please visit CCC’s website: www.cleancarcampaign.org

Computer Take Back Campaign and the International Campaign for Responsible Technology

Electronics such as computers, printers, and copiers are one of the largest sources of lead and mercury contamination in the environment. With over 250 million computers expected to enter landfills over the next five years, CTBC and ICRT are building consumer support for computers that contain safer materials and are taken back to the manufacturer at the end-of-life to be reused or recycled. For more information please visit the Silicon Valley Toxic Coalition’s website (www.svtc.org), and the Computer Take Back Campaign's website (www.computertakeback.com).

Healthy Building Network (HBN)

Environmentalists and public health specialists are working with architects and others in the profession to design buildings that use safe materials and eliminate the use of chlorinated plastics like PVC pipes and other materials of concern. For more information, please visit HBN’s website: www.healthybuilding.net

Health Care Without Harm (HCWH)

Health Care Without Harm is a broad-based international campaign that is reforming the environmental practices of the healthcare industry. HCWH has helped thousands of hospitals to adopt life cycle approaches to their procurement practices for medical supplies. Many hospitals are now demanding that their suppliers provide mercury-free and PVC-free medical products. For more information, please visit HCWH’s website: www.hcwh.org