Germany and Sweden together propose a restriction under REACH to cover six perfluorinated and polyfluorinated substances, known as PFAS. As the restriction also covers any substance that can degrade into one of the six, the Swedish Chemicals Agency estimates that…
As the managing director of a SME with its own sustainable technology I spend a lot of time thinking about how to achieve successful green substitution and about what the constituents of this process are. I recently got a chance to bounce my own ideas off others when I took part in a Chemical Watch seminar in Copenhagen. During the seminar two things stood out for me.
I think that dating sites manifest one of the best and most intrinsic qualities of the internet: to connect people. And of course, this quality can be used for more than dating and finding a new partner – it can also be used to speed up the transition from hazardous chemicals to safer alternatives.
This week the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) released a meta-analysis on the socio-economic impacts of REACH authorisation. According to ECHA, the way the authorisation process has been handled has led to increased control of use of the most problematic chemicals…
Substituting a problematic substance with one that is equally as bad is a common mistake within the world of chemicals. Hazardous chemicals are many times used because of their performance – like giving your textile fiber a water repellent quality…
During last week’s vote in the ECHA Member State Committee, Bisphenol A (BPA) was officially identified as an SVHC substance due to its endocrine disrupting properties for human health. While BPA has already been added to this SVHC list for…
Last week the Environmental Committee in the European Parliament voted in favor of adopting the Mercury Regulation article 10, which means mercury should be phased out from dental amalgam by 2022. The Parliament will now initiate discussions with the European…
A new ECHA report, written by representatives from the university of Massachusetts, investigates how institutions, industries and governments in the EU work to promote substitution of hazardous chemicals. Among other things, it recommends ECHA to build infrastructures to promote substitution,…
ChemSec is developing an online marketplace for safer alternatives to hazardous chemicals, where companies searching for alternatives and companies selling them can interact. At the moment we picture this marketplace as an Ebay for chemicals, with ads from both buyers…
