Sustainability

Phosphorus, Inorganic and Nitrogen Flame Retardants can be sustainable

Non-halogenated phosphorus, inorganic and nitrogen flame retardants aim to protect lives and property from the dangers of fire, with minimal environmental impacts.

Protecting

Protecting human lives and property is a social and economic benefit.

Health and environment

Many PIN flame retardants have proven favourable health and environment profiles.

Non-halogenated

PIN flame retardants are non-halogenated and can reduce smoke and reduce smoke and fire gas toxicity.

Preventing fire

Preventing and limiting fire reduces the environmental impacts of smoke and fire gases, and the environmental burden of replacing damaged property.

PBT and vPvB

All current PIN flame retardants are not PBT (persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic) and are not vPvB (very persistent and very bioaccumulative).

Designed to be durable

PIN FRs are designed to be durable, that is to provide lasting fire protection over a product’s lifetime, reflecting the key EcoDesign objective of product lifetime.

Compatible

PIN FRs can be compatible with recycling and are not impacted by the obligation to separate and treat specifically electrical and electronic waste plastics containing brominated flame retardants (EU Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Directive).

Enable

PIN flame retardants enable fire safety objectives and standards, while also respecting chemical regulations, environmental, and health objectives.

Optimising the LCA of PIN flame retardants: pinfa member companies have initiated portfolio stewardship and Product Environmental Footprint programmes to assess PIN FRs against LCA (Life Cycle Assessment) and Safe and Sustainable by Design Chemicals (SSbD) criteria. The objective is to optimise the necessary compromises between desirable SSbD chemical properties, such as non-persistence (degradability) or non-bioaccumulation, and product durability, recyclability, processing stability and polymer compatibility.