CleanGredients Welcomes Our 2012 Corporate Sponsors
We are delighted to announce that DeForest Enterprises and ISSA, both long-standing supporters of CleanGredients, have recently renewed their commitment to CleanGredients as this year’s first sponsors. We are very grateful to both DeForest and ISSA for their leadership and generous support of CleanGredients this year.
A few more sponsorship opportunities remain. We are expecting significant growth to the CleanGredients database this year, and we are seeking leadership companies as corporate sponsors to help support this growth. Become a corporate sponsor today and help promote the development of safer, greener cleaning products through CleanGredients. In return for your sponsorship, your company will receive high-visibility marketing exposure to a targeted audience of leading chemical formulators and suppliers. You can find more information on the benefits of sponsorship here. Please contact Program Director James Ewell,
who leads GreenBlue’s Chemicals program and oversees CleanGredients, with any questions. We hope you will consider supporting CleanGredients in 2012.
Upcoming GreenScreen Training
The GreenScreen™ for Safer Chemicals is a comparative chemical hazard screening method developed by Clean Production Action to help companies evaluate hazards associated with specific chemicals and identify safer alternatives. An in-depth workshop will be taking place May 8 in Ann Arbor, MI that is intended to educate designers and decision-makers on how to implement the GreenScreen to compare and select safer chemicals for use in products and manufacturing processes. This training is designed for business professionals in supply chain management, materials selection, procurement, product and process design, environmental health and safety, sustainability, and regulatory affairs. Please visit Clean Production Action’s website
for more information or to register.
GC3 Innovators Roundtable
Registration is now open for the 7th Annual Green Chemistry & Commerce Council (GC3) Innovators Roundtable, which will be held May 9-11 in Ann Arbor, MI. Hosted by NSF International, the event will bring together leading companies across supply chains to share relevant and up to date information to advance the implementation of green chemistry and design for environment practices and the production and marketing of safer chemicals, materials and products. Registration information is available here.
In the Loop
Oxo-degradables and GreenBlue’s Not-So-Scientific Rooftop Lab
The following is an excerpt from a blog post by Project Manager Adam Gendell and Project Associate Eric DesRoberts on GreenBlue's blog, In the Loop. Read all recent posts.
Back in August 2011 we serendipitously came across an oxo-degradable LDPE film wrap (for those of you who may not be enveloped in packaging lingo, that means it’s a thin piece of plastic with special additives that are activated under prolonged exposure to sunlight and oxygen to make the plastic film decompose into plastic dust, which may then be biodegraded by microbes).
Degradable plastic packaging like this is pretty controversial in the packaging community. In favor of oxo-degradable plastic is the argument that it will cease to persist in the environment if littered. Against oxo-degradables are arguments that the plastic dust is equally hazardous to human and environmental health, that they pose a risk to the plastic recycling stream because they downgrade the durability of the plastic with which they are mixed, and allegations that the degradability additives simply don’t work as advertised. Read More
Select In the Loop posts will now be featured in GreenBiz, so please be sure to follow us there as well.
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