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 Healthy Business StrategiesClick here for resources, case studies and strategies that will help businesses create value by embedding the concerns for human health and the environment into their products. Healthy business strategies have the potential to differentiate company brands from competitors, lower costs across the life cycle, enhance employee and customer loyalty and increase market share value. Electronics
Due to shorter life spans of electronic products, and the absence of a domestic recycling infrastructure to process discarded equipment, electronic waste is the fastest growing, most toxic waste stream in the world. Click here to learn more about the policies and market drivers that are needed to promote sustainability in the electronics sector. Flame RetardantsOver the last decade, the scientific community has closely monitored the use and exposure to brominated flame retardants (BFRs)—a large class of hazardous chemicals used to fire retard consumer products. Click here to learn more about how companies can innovate and find safer alternatives. Green Chemistry
We now all contain hazardous chemicals in our bodies and in our environment. Why? Because the chemical industry has been allowed to produce chemicals with no attention to their environmental or human health effect. Green Chemistry promotes the innovative design of new chemicals that reduce or eliminate the use or generation of hazardous substances. To learn about Green Chemistry trainings, developments and other resources, click here. Producer Take BackA new policy is gaining popularity because of its environmental gains, its cost savings and its societal benefits. Producer take-back will reverse our escalating waste generation by making manufacturers responsible for taking back their consumer products at the end of life to reuse and recycle. Click here to learn more. Safer Products Project
CPA is working collaboratively with groups across the globe to build support for safer chemicals. Click here to see what chemicals are commonly found in household dust, why we should care about these chemicals that pose needless health risks and how companies are moving towards safer alternatives. 
Clean Production Action (CPA) supports the US EPA’s Design for the Environment Program and the Safer Detergent Stewardship Initiative (SDSI) as key programs for facilitating the adoption of green chemistry. Building on the US EPA alternative assessment protocols, CPA developed the Green Screen for Safer Chemicals to help organizations evaluate chemical alternatives, including surfactants, and to move to the use of chemicals that are safer for human health and the environment.  |
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