Sustainable chemistry is an integral part of the work on chemicals management at the OECD. Taking a proactive sustainable chemistry approach supports risk management of chemicals, materials and products from their conception and enhances life-cycle thinking.
Sustainable chemistry is also a process that stimulates innovation across all sectors to design and discover new chemicals, production processes, and product stewardship practices that will provide increased performance and increased value while meeting the goals of protecting and enhancing human health and the environment.
The environmental and societal benefits of sustainable chemistry include:
This workshop was organised to understand the barriers the industry faces to more sustainable design of flexible food-grade packaging from a chemicals perspective, discuss policies being put in place by governments, and identify where additional policies could help. Another complementary objective was to understand to what extent the issues discussed are specific to flexible food-grade packaging as opposed to general across different types of plastics or plastic packaging.
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The development of plastic products does not systematically take sustainability, particularly from a chemicals perspective, into account. This report seeks to enable the creation of inherently sustainable plastic products by integrating sustainable chemistry thinking in the design process.
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This case study on biscuit wrappers was developed to provide input to and inform the development of general considerations for design of sustainable plastics from a chemical perspective.
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This case study on detergent bottles was developed to provide input to and inform the development of general considerations for design of sustainable plastics from a chemical perspective.
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This case study on flooring was developed to provide input to and inform the development of general considerations for design of sustainable plastics from a chemical perspective. F
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This case study on insulation was developed to provide input to and inform the development of general considerations for design of sustainable plastics from a chemical perspective.
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