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5 essential practices help assure safer chemicals in products

The U.S. is home to a vibrant network of “market campaigners” — environmental health advocates and social media active consumers — calling for safer chemical use in business practices. I’m one of them. To some… …

A Framework to Guide Selection of Chemical Alternatives

Concerns about the health and environmental impacts associated with some chemical products and processes have motivated a growing number of national, state, and local governments, manufacturers, and retailers to develop assessments and approaches for… …

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GreenScreen® Newsletter - January 26, 2015

Greetings from the GreenScreen® Team We hope there are great things in store for you in 2015! 2014 was an exciting year for us. Here are some highlights: There is continuing adoption of the method within organizations, standards, and eco-labels;… …

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GreenScreen Practitioner Program Accepting Applications for May 2015

ENROLLING NOW FOR MAY 2015 Clean Production Action (CPA) is now accepting applications to the May 2015 GreenScreen® Practitioner Program.    This course is CPA’s premier advanced training course in the GreenScreen… …

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The Business Case for Knowing Chemicals in Products and Supply Chains

New Report Makes Strong Business Case for Using Safer Chemicals in Products and Supply Chains Geneva, 15 December 2014 - Chemicals are all around us, present in the products we use every day. The demand for increased transparency on chemicals up and… …

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Shifting FR Markets

The FRs market is experiencing a massive transformation in chemistry. As of 2013, bromine manufacturers no longer manufacture and use decabromodiphenyl ether (decaBDE) in the U.S. according to the bromine industry association—Bromine Science… …

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Firemaster

One of the most studied of the new FRs is Firemaster 550—a bromine and phosphorous-based compound. Firemaster 550 highlights include:  Used in polyurethane foam products, including seating applications, as an alternative to the now… …

New & Emerging BFRs–Where are the tox data?

But what are manufacturers offering instead of decaBDE and HBCD, also on the phase out pathway due to its restriction by the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants? Albemarle, Chemtura, and ICL are the leading producers of BFRs… …

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BFRs in Electronics & Electrical Devices

Electronics and electrical devices account for 50% of global brominated flame retardant (BFR) consumption. The dominant end uses of BFRs in electronics are in cabinets, housings and printed circuit boards—together they account for roughly 80%… …

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Alternatives: Are FRs Necessary?

A critical approach to chemicals in products in general and plastics in particular is to ask: Is it necessary? For example, is a flame retardant in nap mats even necessary? Driven by government regulations and industry standards, manufacturers now… …