Healthy Business Strategies - Clean Production Action
Healthy Business Strategies - Clean Production Action
Healthy Business Strategies - Clean Production Action
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– For recycled products, design them to be<br />
“closed loop recycled”— recycled back<br />
into the same product.<br />
– For compostable products, use renewable<br />
materials that are sustainably<br />
grown and harvested.<br />
• Use renewable energy in manufacturing<br />
and design products for very high energy<br />
efficiency.<br />
Partnerships<br />
• engage supply chain. The use of only<br />
green chemicals and healthy materials in<br />
products requires on-going collaborations<br />
(as well as compliance evaluations) with<br />
suppliers.<br />
• Work collaboratively with environmental<br />
advocates and other non-profit<br />
organizations. Advocates keep up to date<br />
with chemical toxicity science and corporate<br />
green chemistry practices and they<br />
can be insightful collaborators on the<br />
journey towards green chemistry.<br />
• Be socially responsible. Operate and<br />
contract from facilities that meet basic<br />
human rights for workers, including: livable<br />
wages, health care and dental insurance,<br />
right to form unions, safe and healthy<br />
workplaces, environmentally responsible<br />
production, no forced labor, no worker<br />
harassment, no discrimination and no<br />
child labor.<br />
Much has been learned about benign and<br />
safe chemistry over recent decades and these<br />
six profitable and well known companies are<br />
proof that safer chemicals use in products is<br />
a goal whose time has come. As our case<br />
studies show, different tools and approaches<br />
can be used. But as with all journeys fraught<br />
with difficulties and set backs there must be<br />
commitment that the effort will be worth the<br />
price. Companies can no longer neglect the<br />
opportunity they have to stop the ongoing<br />
assault of hazardous chemicals into our<br />
common environment. Consumers are<br />
waking up to corporate responsibility. Market<br />
share will increasingly go to those companies<br />
who show leadership and commitment<br />
to safe chemical use in their products.<br />
In 10 years time, we hope to look back on the<br />
many companies that saw and met the challenges<br />
of chemical hazards, and celebrate<br />
the successful transition to a healthy<br />
materials economy.<br />
healthy business strategies for transforming the toxic chemical economy
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