ChemFORWARD, Collaboration and Safer Chemistry Featured in GreenBiz
ChemFORWARD, Collaboration and Safer Chemistry Featured in GreenBiz
GreenBiz, the media company focused on business, technology and sustainability, has published a feature examining ChemFORWARD’s collaboration to accelerate the use of safer chemistry.
Senior Editor Elsa Wenzel worked for months to collect information and views about the need for a globally harmonized repository of safer alternatives, the importance of safe chemistry in the circular economy and the power of collaboration in driving transformation. She talked to many of our partners and collaborators as well as “green chemistry trailblazer,” John C. Warner and Clean Production Action’s executive director, Mark Rossi, to pull together a very smart and thorough exploration of this moment in the safer chemistry movement.
"The work that ChemFORWARD is doing and proposes to do will provide important additional information to a community of organizations seeking real-world data to better understand the safety implications of their materials choices," Warner told the magazine.
This article is also extremely timely, just ahead of the launch of ChemFORWARD’s v2 platform. This infrastructure combines HBN’s Pharos dataset with ChemFORWARD’s safer alternatives dataset and curates data for specific verticals. The graphics in the GreenBiz article show the clear interpretations the platform offers for the high-level decision maker along with the supporting argument with hazard tables and endpoint rationales.
"Our intention is to reverse decades of negative impacts from the inundation of toxic chemicals that we find in our products, our economy, our environment and our bodies," ChemFORWARD Executive Director Stacy Glass, told the magazine. "We need new solutions, new ways of thinking about things to have safe, circular products." Glass has led the effort from a project within the Cradle to Cradle Products Innovation Institute to its current iteration, housed within the Washington, D.C.-based Healthy Building Network, a nonprofit that advocates for sustainable building materials, Wenzel wrote in the article.
