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HGC News Note 032110
REACH SVHC Additions
The eight chemicals recently proposed by the EU for addition to the REACH Substances of Very High Concern (SVHC) list are:
- boric acid;
- tetraboron disodium heptaoxide hydrate;
- disodium tetraborate anhydrous;
- potassium dichromate;
- ammonium dichromate;
- potassium chromate;
- sodium chromate;
- trichloroethylene.
These substances have wide use across many products and manufacturing operations.
EPA TSCA List
EPA is providing free web access to the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) Chemical Substance Inventory. This is one of many steps that EPA is taking to update the 30 year old process the US uses for chemical approval. The inventory can be found at
http://www.epa.gov/oppt/newchems/pubs/invntory.htm
Greenhouse Gasses and Your Customers
If you find that your customers are expecting you to provide environmental information about your products and operations, don’t be surprised. Home Depot announced it will achieve a 20% reduction in kWh per square foot usage in its U.S. stores by 2015. They already have saved 2.6 billion kWh since 2004 (yes, that is billion). The second part of their program is reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions 20% from US suppliers (also by 2015). You may recall from earlier News Notes that Walmart is on an aggressive sustainability program with its supply chain and expects a 20-million-tonne cut in greenhouse gas emissions through its supply chain by 2015. If you are a Federal contractor or vendor don’t forget that under Executive Order 13514 Federal Agencies are in the process of reporting and reducing greenhouse gas emission from Federal Agencies, their contractors and their vendors. |
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