Reduce your chemical footprint, participate in annual CFP survey
Recognizing the challenges the coronavirus poses to all of us around the world, Clean Production Action is extending the time period for filling in the Chemical Footprint Project (CFP) 2020 Survey by three months, to July 31, 2020. We are here to work with you in demonstrating your leadership in chemicals management. Last year’s CFP Survey results (https://www.chemicalfootprint.org/results/2019-report) highlighted: Six frontrunners in chemicals management: Seventh… …
Dear Friends of Clean Production Action, Like you, we watch the coronavirus news with growing concern. We believe it’s critical to do our part to help reduce the spread of COVID-19. To that end, and consistent with CDC guidance and governmental recommendations: We are working from home. Our infrastructure allows us to do this and continue our critical work and our partnerships with you. You can continue to contact us by telephone or email. We are… …
BizNGO in 2020 – join us on the journey to safer chemicals
Join BizNGO! BizNGO provides a trusted and safe space for business, environmental, and government leaders to collaborate in developing strategies and practices to advance the development and use of safer chemicals and sustainable materials. We do this through an annual meeting and three work groups: Chemicals Management Work Group Hazard Assessment & Decision Making Work Group Safer Chemicals Public Policy Work Group in… …
GreenScreen program events and updates
The GreenScreen® for Safer Chemicals program has many new and exciting updates and events to report on. See what’s new with GreenScreen: GreenScreen Certified Standard for Firefighting Foam GreenScreen Certified Standard for Firefighting Foam Webinar GreenScreen Benchmark 1 Assessments by ToxServices LLC Introducing New GreenScreen Authorized Practitioners Back to top GreenScreen Certified Standard for Firefighting Foam As global concerns grow around the use of per-and… …
Webinars on PFAS-free firefighting foam, chemical footprint survey, and more
Join us for these upcoming webinars: Learn how to gain quick access to hundreds of GreenScreen Assessments with ToxServices new Screened Chemistry Library (February 13th) Identify PFAS-free firefighting foam products with GreenScreen Certified (February 25th) Prepare for Chemical Footprint Project (CFP) Survey with our webinars on: Footprint Measurement (January 30th) Disclosure and Verification (February 6th) Catch up on webinars you may have missed:… …
"The NGO Clean Production Action (CPA) has launched the first ecolabel for firefighting foams free of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs). The GreenScreen certified label will identify foam products that do not contain the controversial substances, which have been the subject of action at both federal and state level due to environmental and health concerns. For instance, the December 2019 passage of the National Defense Authorization Act… …
GreenScreen Certified® firefighting foam products are PFAS-free and avoid other chemicals of high concern to people and planet
Somerville, MA—As global concerns grow around the use of per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS)—now widely known as the ‘forever chemicals’ because they can persist for thousands of years in the environment—Clean Production Action today released GreenScreen Certified® Firefighting Foam, the first ecolabel for PFAS-free* firefighting foam products. “Until today no certification existed for PFAS-free firefighting foam products, or that evaluated all… …
"Clean Production Action, a nonprofit that works with businesses to encourage environmentally preferable products, will announce a voluntary ecolabel to identify PFAS-free firefighting foams today. Firefighting foams produced by four companies—Angus Fire, BIOex, National Foam, and Verde Environmental Group—have already been certified, said Kayla Williams, a Clean Production spokeswoman." …
Upcoming Chemical Footprint & GreenScreen Webinars
We are starting the new decade full speed ahead with a deep dive into the Chemical Footprint Project and GreenScreen. Join us for any of the following webinars: The 2019 Chemical Footprint Project (CFP) Survey Results, January 9th CFP Webinar Series on: Management Strategy, January 16th Chemical Inventory, January 23rd Footprint Measurement, January 30th Disclosure and Verification, February 6th Advancing GreenScreen Assessments with ToxServices' ToxFMD… …
What does 461 million pounds equal?
That’s the amount of chemicals of high concern (CoHCs) eliminated by companies participating in the 2019 Chemical Footprint Project (CFP) Survey. To give that mind-boggling amount some perspective, it’s the equivalent of 628 Boeing 747 airplanes that would stretch 30 miles if parked nose-to-tail. Additional highlights from the CFP 4th Annual Report include rising demand for chemical footprinting, significant levels of improvement among the 21 returning… …