Greenlist(tm) Bulletin 06/03/2005
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- Greening of Cleaning: Renewable Feed-Stock Alternatives in Surface Cleaning Bio-Based Alternative Solvents: How Well Do They Work. 2004
- Pesticide Groups
- Every Shirt Has a Story: The Marketing and Certification of Sustainable Textiles. March 2005
- Eikos Inks Totally Nanotubular Deal with Japanese Firm. April 2005
- EU Ministers Approve New Batteries Legislation. February 2005
- Personal Use of Hair Dyes and Risk of Cancer. May 2005
- Plastics From Citrus. May 2005
- Some EH & S Managers 'Not Having Much Fun' Any More. May 2005
- SYBR Safe (tm): A Case Study in Reducing the Use of Hazardous Materials in Laboratories. 2004
- Sustainability as a Business Operating System. March 2005
1. Greening of Cleaning: Renewable Feed-Stock
Alternatives in Surface Cleaning Bio-Based
Alternative Solvents: How Well Do They Work
AUTHOR Marshall, J.
SOURCE Proceedings of the 3rd International Surface
Engineering Conference,
ABSTRACT Identifying non-hazardous solvent cleaning
substitutes is a challenging task with thousands of possible alternatives.
Ideally, the replacement formulations should strive to be safer, less toxic and
as effective as the current solvents. In an effort to develop and promote environmentally-friendlier,
safer cleaning alternatives, three types of bio-based solvents were evaluated
for their effectiveness in removing metal working and non-metal working fluids
under laboratory controlled conditions. The bio-based solvents evaluated at the
Surface Solutions Laboratory located at the
2. Pesticide Groups
AUTHOR Sissell, Kara
SOURCE Chemical Week,
ABSTRACT The spring lawn care season has brought renewed
tension between pesticide industry advocates and environmental groups that have
stepped up their fight over pesticide safety through advertising campaigns
targeting homeowners, home improvement retailers, and landscapers. Pesticide
manufacturers have created Project Evergreen, and environmental group Beyond
Pesticides has countered that move by launching the National Coalition for
Pesticide-Free Lawns. Project Evergreen says that Beyond Pesticides is using
scare tactics to frighten consumers and that pesticides are among the most
highly regulated consumer products in the world. Beyond Pesticides counters
that the pesticide industry has been losing credibility due to several
scientific, peer-reviewed studies investigating the health effects from pesticide product formulations - which people
are more likely to be exposed to - rather than simply doing risk assessments
for individual chemicals, which is what EPA evaluates. Those studies are
providing mounting evidence showing that health problems caused by exposure to
product formulations are more serious than those caused by individual
chemicals.
3. Every Shirt Has a Story: The Marketing and
Certification of Sustainable Textiles
AUTHOR Thiry, Maria C.
SOURCE AATCC Review, v5 n3, March 2005, pp7-12
ABSTRACT The modern world is full of textile products. For
those companies throughout the textile chain that are concerned with the
environmental impacts of textile products, it's important to educate everyone,
especially their customers, about the need for sustainable textiles. Consumers
want green textiles -- if the quality is as good as, or better than, a
traditional product, and if their price needs are met. Demand from the
marketplace is often helped along by nudges from regulators, including the
European Union Chemicals Directive, and
4. Eikos Inks Totally Nanotubular Deal with Japanese
Firm
AUTHOR Forman, Ethan
SOURCE Mass High Tech, v23 n15,
ABSTRACT Eikos, Inc. of Franklin Massachusetts has cooked up a transparent coating of carbon nanotubes, a breakthrough that could mean flexible displays for laptops with screens that roll up. The screens may also be used by the military to create wearable, lightweight, flexible displays for soldiers. Invisicon Carbon Nanotube Technology ink can be used for circuits and coatings, and could revolutionize computer and television displays. Eikos has licensed its technology to Takiron Corp. Ltd in Japan, an affiliate of Itochu Corp., a maker of plastics.
5. EU Ministers Approve New Batteries Legislation
SOURCE Business and the Environment, vXVI n2, February
2005, p10
ABSTRACT EU environment ministers have approved a new directive
setting binding collection and recycling targets for all batteries and
accumulators, and imposing a partial ban on portable cadmium batteries used in
hundreds of consumer products. The ministers also struck down a Commission
proposal for a complete ban on portable cadmium batteries by exempting
batteries used for emergency and alarm systems, medical equipment, and power
tools -- although the latter will be reviewed in due course.
6. Personal Use of Hair Dyes and Risk of Cancer
AUTHOR Takkouche, Bahi; Etminan, Mahyar; Montes-Matinex,
Agustin
SOURCE JAMA -- Journal of the American Medical
Association, v293 n20,
ABSTRACT Use of hair dyes has been suggested recently as
a risk factor for several types of cancer in epidemiologic studies. This study
examines the association between personal use of hair dyes and relative risk of
bladder, breast, and hematopoietic cancers. The researchers did not find strong
evidence of a marked increase in the risk of cancer among personal hair dye
users. Some aspects related to hematopoietic cancer and other cancers that have
shown evidence of increased risk in one or two studies should be investigated
further.
7. Plastics From Citrus
SOURCE Modern Plastics Worldwide, v.82 n.5, May 2005,
p.73
ABSTRACT In the pursuit of materials made from renewable,
biodegradable resources, a lab at
8. Some EH & S Managers 'Not Having Much Fun' Any
More
SOURCE
ABSTRACT Environmental managers at facilities from which
manufacturing has been outsourced report their staff and resources are
shrinking, their department know-how is diminishing, and they're forced to
replace "beyond compliance" mindsets with more traditional ones.
Following a recent Environmental Business Council/Associated Industries of
Massachusetts seminar on 'The Evolving Role of the Environmental, Health and
Safety Manager', it seems that innovation now is at least as prevalent at
smaller companies as large. While companies of all sizes are adapting to
limited resources, managers at the largest must grapple with the added
challenge of advising their overseas counterparts until, in some cases, they
hand their own jobs over as well. Smaller companies keeping manufacturing
operations in
9. SYBR Safe (tm): A Case Study in Reducing the Use of
Hazardous Materials in Laboratories
AUTHOR Sorocco, Debra
ABSTRACT This paper describes a case study in green
"bio-chemistry," evaluating the replacement of a common hazardous
chemical, ethidium bromide, with a new reagent, SYBR Safe (tm), for use in
biomedical research laboratories. The two chemicals were compared and
contrasted within the context of a small academic organization, the Forsyth
Institute in
10. Sustainability as a Business Operating System
AUTHOR
SOURCE Corporate Environmental Strategy: International
Journal for Sustainable Business, v12 n2,
March 2005, pp. 55-64
ABSTRACT Sustainable development is an engaging concept.
Who can disagree with the notion that economic and natural resources should be
managed wisely and that people and other living things should be respected? The
problem comes in the practical implementation of the concept within a corporate
setting. The key is an enterprise-wide sustainability operating system or SOS.
By using an SOS, one can sort through the broad array of options for action,
evaluating each against sustainability trends as well as business risks and
opportunities, to identify those efforts that will provide the greatest
business value. The introduction of the SOS changes the business case for
sustainability that many have found so elusive. Now the issue is the business
case for a process that finds for each company the most valuable actions that
they can take in furtherance of sustainability.
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