Nice blog by Michael Kirschner summarizes steps to take to deal with all the challenges that are threatening products containing chemicals “of concern.” He advises manufacturers to take the following steps: Collect full material disclosure from your suppliers. Simple declarations and certificates are useless. If your suppliers insist on continuing to provide this level of information [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Product Stewardship’
Product Stewardship & Chemicals Management
Posted in Product Stewardship, tagged Product Stewardship on February 29, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Product Stewardship: Design with LC Thinking
Posted in Product Stewardship, tagged EHS Strategies Inc., LCA, life cycle thinking, Product Stewardship, Sustainability on September 15, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Interesting presentation by Bresseler company in how they do quick versions of life cycle analysis in an iterative process in doing product design: http://www.bresslergroup.com/webinar/cut-the-crap/video.php I don’t know the company, but I like their way of thinking. This is not unlike the product stewardship processes I’ve long supported. See my paper on Product Development with Life [...]
LCA and Sustainability
Posted in Sustainability, tagged EHS Strategies Inc., LCA, life cycle thinking, Product Stewardship, Sustainability on August 15, 2011 | 1 Comment »
I agree with the article by Mark McElroy “Do LCAs Measure Up To Sustainability?” He says they do not, because they are too narrowly focused on eco-efficiency only and ignore context. As I’ve blogged before, sustainability should be about how we do what we do and not a collation of LCA’s. At best LCA’s help [...]
Current Events and Articles
Posted in Environmental Marketing Claims, Events and Articles, Product Stewardship, REACH, TSCA, tagged EHS Strategies Inc., Environmental Marketing Claims, life cycle thinking, Product Stewardship, REACH, Sustainability, TSCA on July 13, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Current and recent events and articles: Upcoming: November 15 and 17, 2011 Dept of Commerce, US Commercial Service webinar “EU REACH – What You Should be Doing.” I’m speaking the 17th on “Protecting Your Supply Chain.” August 18, 2011 Spoke on “Greening Your Supply Chain” for the Environmental Initiative’s Business & Environment Session. Slides [...]
EPA DfE Alternatives Assessment Methodology
Posted in Environmental Marketing Claims, Product Stewardship, tagged action plans, EHS Strategies Inc., Environmental Marketing Claims, green chemistry, Product Stewardship on December 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
EPA has just posted its draft Alternatives Assessment Methodology on how it will compare the hazards of alternate chemicals in deciding whether or not to designate a product as “Designed for the Environment.” DfE is geared to identifying alternatives that work and are available and are greener than the current chemicals that are being used. [...]
Greener Chemicals and Processes Standard Proposal
Posted in Environmental Marketing Claims, Product Stewardship, Sustainability, tagged EHS Strategies Inc., green chemistry, Product Stewardship, Sustainability on September 20, 2010 | 1 Comment »
I’m on the joint committee that developed the following proposed standard on “greener” chemicals and processes. Our intent is to have a standard that can be used by customers of chemical manufacturers to decide who has the “greener” chemical and process. This is an information standard and does not weight any of the metrics per [...]
10 Principles of Responsible Product Stewarship
Posted in Product Stewardship, Sustainability, tagged EHS Strategies Inc., life cycle thinking, Product Stewardship, Sustainability on August 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
See my article in GreenBiz.com: http://bit.ly/agKUDI
California Safer Alternatives Draft Regulation
Posted in Product Stewardship, tagged California Green Chemistry Initiative, EHS Strategies Inc., Product Stewardship on June 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
California released its draft regulation to implement the Green Chemicals Initiative June 23, 2010. Find it here: http://bit.ly/9BV64N It’s stunning in its reach (makes EU’s REACH look like a walk in the park). Pretty much everything is a “consumer product” despite the name of “Safer Consumer Product Alternatives” – if someone uses it in California [...]
Where’s Chemical Industry’s Righteous Indignation?
Posted in Product Stewardship, tagged EHS Strategies Inc., Gulf oil spill, Product Stewardship on June 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
They say Obama is a cold fish: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/06/21/AR2010062103698.html?wpisrc=nl_pmopinions. He lets Lisa Jackson do all the emoting and threatening. They both operate by giving unilateral orders and treat both the oil and chemical industry as The Enemy, while talking about cooperation (see previous post on Jackson). I don’t know much about the oil industry, but I [...]
Maine’s “Product Stewardship” – NOT
Posted in Product Stewardship, tagged EHS Strategies Inc., Product Stewardship on March 26, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Maine has passed a law they call “product stewardship” – but it’s not. It’s a product end-of-life take back law. In a big stick way it will “encourage” companies to design their products so they will be easier to take back and recycle, but it’s not truly product stewardship. Summary here. I’ve ranted before about [...]
