The BizNGO conference, hosted by Clean Production Action, was mainly about Chemical Footprinting This was the 10th BizNGO conference and there was much to discuss and learn. BizNGO is one of my favorite conferences because there is such a willingness to share information, brainstorm ideas and drive forward on the path to safer chemicals. I really like the interesting content, the cross industry collaboration and the valuable input from the NGO community and academia. The main… …
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: CONTACT: Kelly McGlumphy, Public Relations Manager, GOJO Industries, 330.255.6986, McGlumpK@GOJO.com, www.GOJO.com The company’s Sustainable Value Strategies and Goals promote leadership and continuous improvement, while delivering innovation in products and the ways the company works. AKRON, Ohio, and BOSTON (Dec. 8, 2015) - GOJO, a global leader in hand hygiene and healthy skin and the maker of PURELL® Advanced Hand Sanitizer, today announced its 2020… …
A 10-year checkup on the quest to detox commercial products In the last 50 years, manmade chemicals have made their way into almost every industrial and manufacturing process-basically every commercial product. Synthetic chemicals have become the foundation of our society, and the United States alone produces and imports tens of billions of pounds of chemicals every single day. It’s a staggering amount, and it’s expected to double in the next two decades. The law that regulates this… …
Join us in Boston, Dec. 8-9 @ the JFK Library! Nicole Koharik, serves as the global sustainability marketing director for GOJO Industries, a global leader in hand hygiene and healthy skin and the inventor of PURELL® Hand Sanitizer. Koharik’s focus at GOJO includes corporate sustainability strategy, policies, goals and stakeholder engagement and reporting. GOJO was among the first organizations to pilot the Chemical Footprint Project, and Koharik will be speaking about the… …
Contents: Transatlantic partnership attracts over $2.1 trillion in support Health care Signatories bring $70 billion in purchasing power to Chemical Footprint Project November 30, 2015: deadline for Responders’ participation Transatlantic Partnership attracts $2.1 trillion in support! Clean Production Action (CPA) and the Investor Environmental Health Network (IEHN) are excited to announce a new transatlantic partnership with ChemSec – the International Chemical Secretariat based in… …
Join us in Boston, Dec. 8-9 @ the JFK Library! Mike Schade spearheads the Mind the Store campaign for Safer Chemicals Healthy Families, which aims to work with the nation's leading retailers on creating comprehensive chemicals policies. He will be speaking at this year’s BizNGO-Chemical Footprint Conference about his recent victories getting Macy’s to commit to phasing out toxic flame retardants from furniture and Home Depot to phase out phthalates in flooring, among… …
STOCKHOLM, November 11, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- TCO Development today launched the latest generation TCO Certified sustainability certification for IT products. The revision includes new criteria for reducing hazardous non-halogenated flame retardant substances and replacing them with safer alternatives. First to certify product include displays from Eizo, Dell, Lenovo, LG and Samsung. "Today there are over 40 000 chemical substances on the market and the environmental and human health… …
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: November 11, 2015 CONTACT: Shayna Samuels, 718-541-4785, shayna@ripplestrategies.com New Global Standard for Decreasing Toxic Chemicals in Electronics Released Today GreenScreen® for Safer Chemicals Announced as Method to Meet Requirements (Somerville, MA) – TCO Certified -- an international third-party sustainability certification for IT products – announced today a new approach to phase out hazardous substances in computers, displays and other electronic… …
Register for the conference here! Dr. Mark Rossi founded the BizNGO Working Group for Safer Chemicals & Sustainable Materials 10 years ago. Below he discusses what prompted this massive undertaking, what accomplishments have been achieved, and what he hopes will come out of the upcoming 10th anniversary conference in Boston December 8-9, 2015. Q: What prompted you to start BizNGO 10 years ago? Mark Rossi: 10 years ago Clean Production Action (CPA)… …
UNITED STATES, November 5, 2015-- NGO, Clean Production Action, has published guidance on how to use its chemicals assessment tool, GreenScreen®, to meet criteria under the US Green Building Council's (USGBC) certification programme, Leed v4. The latest edition of the Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design (Leed v4) awards up to two points for meeting certain material ingredient criteria. One credit is awarded for disclosure of chemical ingredients, and another for avoiding… …