Stacy Glass and Lauren Heine, ChemFORWARD underlined the need to establish trusted downstream user information on chemicals in products. Firstly, toxicology data is missing on many chemicals. Secondly, data is not accessible to users. A survey of nearly fifty...
Google is committed to moving to safer chemicals in its products and operations to support a safe and circular economy, from production through the end of life for recycling. For Google, this means using less hazardous chemicals. To achieve this, a widely accessible...
Carles Ibanez, ICL discussed the challenge for flame retardants and for all plastics additives of persistence versus durability. Flame retardants must be chemically stable, that is “durable”, both in processing (e.g. melting of plastic compounds and injection molding...
A very wide range of different flame retardants are today needed to achieve fire safety in materials with very different and demanding mechanical, electrical, aesthetic or other properties. This makes end-of-life recycling complex. Different recycling routes are being...
As part of EU Green Week, Fire Safe Europe’s 2nd June 2022 webinar discussed why fire safety is linked to sustainability in buildings, in the context of the EU’s “Renovation Wave” objective of renovating building stock to improve energy efficieny and of “green...
