BizNGO 2023 Annual Meeting

Setting Bold Chemical Footprint Goals

Outcomes Chemical Footprint: defined chemicals of high concern and learned how to set goals and measure progress in chemical footprint reductions. Environmental Justice (EJ): gained skills on how to integrate EJ into business policies and practices,… …

Webinar: GreenScreen Certified® for Reusables

How GreenScreen Certified® Shifts Markets Toward Materials with Preferable Chemistry

Are you concerned that there might be harmful chemicals such as PFAS, BPA or styrene in your food packaging, containers or cookware and have been wondering how to identify products with environmentally preferable chemistry? Or are you a manufacturer… …

Clean Production Action will mobilize stakeholder support for strong chemical footprint reduction targets in the UN’s Beyond 2020 Framework for Chemicals

Clean Production Action (CPA) will advocate for the need to reduce chemical footprints by 2030 at the upcoming United Nations’ International Conference on Chemicals Management (ICCM5) in - Bonn, Germany, 25 - 29 September 2023. Over twenty… …

Groundbreaking Certification Eliminates Waste and Shifts the Food Service Market to Reusables

GreenScreen Certified® for Reusable Food Packaging, Service Ware, & Cookware

OAKLAND, CA - Today, nonprofit organizations Center for Environmental Health (CEH) and Clean Production Action (CPA) unveiled a new certification program that will eliminate toxic chemicals and waste created by single-use foodware materials. The… …

IEHN Blog: April 20, 2023

Investors commend corporations for reducing business risk by eliminating over 37 million kilograms of toxic chemicals from products, and call on more companies to adopt best practice and join the 2023 Chemical Footprint Survey

Recent scientific studies make clear that we are reaching a tipping point on chemical pollution  and taking “urgent action” is necessary [1]. According to the Chemical Footprint Project (CFP) report, “chemical pollution is one… …

Why environmental justice is a critical component of safe and sustainable chemistry

Recently I took part in a one-day roundtable to advance ‘Sustainable Chemistry in RD&D to Transform the Chemicals Industry.’ The focus was how to advance research, development and demonstration of sustainable chemistry and how the… …

Regulatory demands for PFAS-free firefighting foam products are on the rise - but are the alternatives safer? GreenScreen Certified® meets this demand and more

Three years ago, in January 2020, Clean Production Action with Toxic-Free Future launched the GreenScreen Certified® Standard for Firefighting Foam as the world's first ecolabel for per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS)-free*… …

Webinar: 6th CFP Survey

On December 2nd 2023, Clean Production Action released the 6th Chemical Footprint Project (CFP) Survey report. On January 27, 2023 our speakers presented on: CFP 6th Annual Report: key findings and next steps Chemical footprint reduction goals: value… …

PFAS Foam Replacement Challenges Nation’s Fire Departments (1)

"The Pentagon’s recent release of its requirements for firefighting suppressants that could substitute for PFAS-based aqueous film-forming foam increases the pressure on fire departments to stop using AFFF, said Bradley M.… …

Detoxifying chemistry for a circular future

We cannot expect to transition to a sustainable circular economy by continuing to rely on toxic chemistry.

I discovered the GreenScreen for Safer Chemicals comparative hazard assessment protocol very early in my career and am still thankful I did. The protocol walks trained users through 18 human and environmental health endpoints to assess individual… …