product stewardship Articles
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The Globalization of Product Stewardship
From Manufacturing Today, November/December 2006 Product stewardship is critically important these days as international stewardship initiatives and directives involving specific products – typically consumer products – are sprouting up everywhere. In Europe, for example, several directives are likely to greatly influence global product stewardship. Environmental regulation historically has been ...
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10 Principles of Responsible Product Stewardship
See article on key principles of product stewardship that apply to all actors in a product's life cycle published by Greenbiz.com: ...
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Product Stewardship Productivity Summit was full of substance about substances
At Sphera’s Productivity Summit for Product Stewardship the talk was about “stuff,” lots of “stuff”—literally and figuratively—and data, lots of data. Quick question: How often do you go shopping in a store or order an item online? Pretty regularly, we presume. But how often do you think about the very components—or substances—within ...
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Product stewardship grows globally
Product stewardship can be expressed in many ways, and there’s no single best definition. According to the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), “[p]roduct stewardship is a product-centered approach to environmental protection. Also known as extended product responsibility (EPR), product stewardship calls on those in the product life cycle -- manufacturers, retailers, users and disposers ...
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Product stewardship – recycling’s little helper
Like many veteran recycling professionals, I have faced serious challenges in making the wish of recycling all materials come true. Although paper, cardboard, cans and bottles have ready markets and collection infrastructure; computers, mattresses and other items did not. They were the problem items that went into dumpsters because costs and lack of mechanism gave them little chance of ...
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Stewardship 2016 eBook and On Demand Includes Lynn L. Bergeson’s Presentation On Emerging Nanotechnology
The Product Stewardship Society recently released Stewardship 2016, an eBook looking back on the highlights of Stewardship 2016. Lynn L. Bergeson, Managing Partner, Bergeson & Campbell P.C. (B&C®), was quoted discussing the U.S. regulatory framework for nanotechnology as well as potential legal and stewardship issues that nanochemicals face. Lynn Bergeson, managing partner at ...
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Six Tips to Ensure Corporate Compliance in 2020
Are you struggling with the never-ending stream of regulatory requirements and fighting to try to secure compliance? Did your boss ask you to confirm that everything is compliant, be it in terms of environment, health and safety (EHS) or in terms of product stewardship? The creativity of the regulator seems endless. In dark moments, one sometimes wonders whether they invent regulations to keep ...
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Enhesa celebrates 10 years as an independent company
On 20 March 2011, Enhesa will celebrate its ten year anniversary as an independent entity. Enhesa was established in 2001 as a management buy-out of the Law Companies Group Environmental Policy Centres. The first Environmental Policy Centre was established in Washington DC in 1989 and the second in Brussels in 1992. With 22 years of experience, Enhesa has become the leader in assisting ...
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Rust-Oleum Europe Addresses Compliance - Case Study
Overview Rust-Oleum is part of RPM International Inc, one of the world’s largest paint manufacturers with a presence in 150 companies worldwide. Ensuring compliance with regional regulations and maintaining the right to sell in markets is paramount for the business. “The greatest challenge for our department, is meeting the requirements of new and increasingly complex environmental, ...
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TSCA at 2: An Update on Implementation and Hot Topics
Since enactment on June 22, 2016, of the Frank R. Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has implemented a muscular regulatory program expressing Congress’ intent for a new and improved Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA). The new TSCA framework required significant work and fundamental shifts in regulatory requirements and ...
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Enhesa’s Product Compliance Checklists allow companies to place products on international markets with confidence
The dramatic growth of product-related EHS laws and regulations rapidly spreading around the globe has led to growing demand for user-friendly, up-to-date and comprehensive tools to allow companies to meet these new requirements, and designed to enhance corporate global product stewardship initiatives. Recent enforcements cases indicate that the challenges of ensuring products comply with EHS ...
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Beyond systems: a vision for corporate environmental management for the future
The paper sets out how corporate environmental management techniques have become dominated by environmental management systems and the concept of eco-efficiency and how this leads to some rather restrictive outcomes. In a world of globalisation, with an emphasis on free trade, there are many new environmental challenges that need to be addressed. Not least, it is argued that globalisation leads ...
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Sustainability at Navistar: a model distinguished by sustainable innovation, proactive product stewardship, and sound science
While corporate sustainability is interpreted broadly to mean ensuring success in the present without compromising the future, a well–accepted workable definition has remained elusive. Sustainability is often defined using a set of criteria or metrics that address the recognised environmental, social, and economic pillars of sustainability. However, standard metrics fail to account for how ...
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Are you Avoiding, Setting, Undergoing or Enforcing the Product Rules?
The European Union is a leader in regulating products to make them more environmentally friendly. In this article, Paul Olagnier, Product Stewardship Manager, discusses “The Ecodesign Directive” (2009/125/EC). This Directive sets stringent energy and resource efficiency requirements for many products placed on the European market, while its sister, The Energy Labelling Directive ...
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Paint stewardship means less government and cost, and more recycling options
For many in the U.S., this winter was a tough one and when the rain and snow stop, the spring maintenance begins, which usually includes painting and cleaning out the basement and garage, which often have stored years of leftover paint. That is when homeowners ask—do I throw it in the trash? Is there somewhere I can bring this paint? Does it have any value? Can it be recycled? The ...
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Ask Enhesa Vol. 7- Product Stewardship Special
Featuring contributions from Catarina Hästesko, Rakibe Kulcur, Agathe Subileau, Paula Diaz and Ulrike Steiger You asked and we answered! Enhesa’s team of multilingual regulatory analysts are committed to providing quality insight and analysis around the latest EHS news and developments via our Enhesa Flash, webinar series, and blog posts. In response, our team often receives a ...
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Lynn L. Bergeson Quoted In “EPA TSCA Guide May Give Industry New Strategies For Risk Evaluations”
On August 15, 2017, Lynn L. Bergeson, Managing Partner of Bergeson & Campbell, P.C. (B&C®) was quoted by Inside EPA discussing how new U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) risk evaluation guidelines may impact industry. “My sense is that if you have a promising chemical product and wish to get it through the risk evaluation process sooner rather than later, considering ...
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Cytec seamlessly migrates 60 years of critical data; enhances product stewardship - Case study
The Situation Cytec Industries is one of the world’s leading specialty chemicals and materials companies with sales, laboratory and manufacturing locations in over 35 countries worldwide. Cytec has made safety and environment two of its top core values. The company strives to be an industry leader in setting the pace in procedures, programs, and most importantly, performance relating to ...
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Safety comes first for nanotechnology
Online guide provides innovative path to product stewardship. Earlier this year, the International Council on Nanotechnology (ICON), Houston, launched the GoodNanoGuide, which is available at http://www.goodnanoguide.org. To cater to all audiences, the guide provides basic, intermediate and advanced options to choose from to contribute to or search within the online forum. This innovative ...
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Michael S. Wenk, M.S., to Speak at AOCS Latin American Congress and Exhibition on Fats, Oils, and Lipids
Michael S. Wenk, M.S., Senior Regulatory Consultant with The Acta Group (Acta®) and Bergeson & Campbell, P.C. (B&C®), has been invited to speak on the current state of play of Central and South American chemical regulations at the 17th AOCS Latin American Congress and Exhibition on Fats, Oils, and Lipids, September 11-14, 2017, in Cancun, Mexico. Mr. Wenk will present ...
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