Our publications 2009

 

 

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ChemSec Leaflet

“Imagine a world free of harmful chemicals. A place where man-made toxins no longer threaten our health and the environment around us. It is possible. We are working to make it happen. Welcome to ChemSec” New leaflet describing how ChemSec has been, and still is, working for a toxic free world.

ChemSec Leaflet

 

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ChemSec Business Group Leaflet

Since 2004 ChemSec has gathered leading companies working for toxic use reduction within the ChemSec Business Group. This leaflet gives a short summay of the ChemSec Business Group, it's work, principles and objectives.

ChemSec Business Group Leaflet

 

Publication: What IS the SIN List?

 

What IS the SIN List?

The SIN List is an NGO driven project to catalyze the transition to toxic-free products and processes. The aim is to fast-track the most urgent high concern chemicals for substitution, by informing authorities and providing advance guidance to companies, consumers and regulators. This is a quick and easy introduction to the SIN List - why is it needed, who is behind it, who is using it etc.

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Publication: What is ON the SIN List?

What is ON the SIN List?

The SIN List contains substances fulfilling the criteria for Substances of Very High Concern in accordance with the new EU regulation on chemicals, REACH. These are substances that are Carcinogenic, Mutagenic and toxic to Reproduction (CMRs), Persistent, Bioaccumulative and
Toxic (PBTs), very Persistent and very Bioaccumulative (vPvB) and Substances of Equivalent Concern. This is a quick and easy introduction to which substances are on the SIN List, and why.

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Greening Consumer Eletronics Report

Greening Consumer Electronics: Moving Away from Bromine and Chlorine

This report features seven companies, among them Apple and Sony Ericsson, who have engineered environmental solutions that negate the need for most - or in some cases all - uses of brominated and chlorinated based substances within electronic products. Reduction of bromine and chlorine is a critical demonstration of environmental leadership on toxic use reduction within the broader sustainability lens of improving the full life cycle impacts of products.

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Annual Report 2009

ChemSec Annual Report 2009

 

 

 

 

 

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