Safer Chemicals Within Reach Using Substitution Principlet to Drive Green Chemistry

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Table of contents :
Cover
……Page 1
Copyright
……Page 2
Table of Contents……Page 3
Is the Substitution Principle workable?……Page 5
2.1 What is the Substitution Principle?……Page 7
2.2. Why not control the risks instead of insisting on substitution?……Page 8
2.3 What is a ‘safer alternative’?……Page 9
3.2 Substitution regulation spurs innovation……Page 11
3.4 Legal precedents for the Substitution Principle……Page 12
3.5 Case Study: Alternatives to Dry cleaning with Perchloroethyelene……Page 13
4.1 Mandatory planning for substitution……Page 14
4.3. Technical Support to find safer alternatives……Page 15
OSPAR List +……Page 16
5.2 Downstream users promote mandatory substitution……Page 17
5.4 Retailers support mandatory substitution……Page 18
6. CONCLUSIONS……Page 19
1.1 The electronics industry found alternatives to BFRs……Page 21
2.1 Material and functional approaches to substituting BFRs……Page 23
4. Retailers are substituting a range of hazardous materials……Page 25
6. Chemical suppliers are adopting Green Chemistry……Page 26
1.3 Leaders in the building trade are phasing out BFRs Skanska……Page 22
ANNEX II COMMON POSITION OF CBI, CIA AND GREENPEACE ON SUBSTITUTION……Page 27
ANNEX III SUBSTITUTION IN INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS……Page 28
EU LEGISLATION……Page 29
INTERNATIONAL LAW (related)……Page 35
ENDNOTES……Page 37