Activity Breakout by Group (UGCA)

  
 
 
 

 

A successful outcome of this project is one that meets my need for….

Users 1:

  1. Current standards for cost effectiveness. Performance/ease of use (works well, easy to use, affordable)

  2. A label that can be trusted- third party certification. The product should be healthy for user (reduce health hazard) and the product should be available

  3. Education/awareness

Other:

  • Create demand
  • Acceptability as  legitimate group
  • Break down barriers
  • Provide customer benefits
  • Maintain facility integrity

Policy Makers/Environmental Groups

  1. A dynamic generally accepted, effective model for assessing levels of green-ness

  2. Easy access to accurate information and framework for understanding

  3. List of categories of impacts and those chemicals that may not be used (i.e. endocrine disruptors, carcinogens, mutagens)

Other:

  • Products that don’t need to be regulated
  • Criteria and a system that would make the leaders more successful
  • Measured environmental improvements based on changes in the market
  • Taxes on bad chemicals (i.e. as rising cost of freon has discouraged its use)

Purchasers

  1. A broad standard that applies to multiple regions (national international companies)

  2. Labels/standards provide a means of evaluation to save time

  3. Integrity of the evaluation system- criteria are stringent so it means something

Other:

  • cost/availability /performance evaluation
  • third party certification versus self-reporting
  • easy justification for switching to ‘green’
  • reduce liability
  • education
  • brand integrity
  • a tool for non-proprietary competitive bidding at regional and national levels

Formulators/Manufacturers

  1. Identify needs of the customer and drivers for green chemistry. Willingness/ability of customers to pay. Want to understand price sensitivity

  2. Use EHS compatible chemicals, real science, evolving, may need to change direction with more information

  3. Clear operational definitions of EHS criteria.  Balance with performance/economy

Other:

  • Long term sustainability of our company:  profits, jobs, products
  • Understand key drivers of end users
  • Knowledge or understanding of how formulators can go up the chemical and raw materials supply chain

Users 2:

  1. Health and safety of staff/customers/community. Products should not contain harmful chemicals (glycols, acids, scents)

  2.  Products that are effective and easy to use

  3. Ability to trust formulators/manufacturers with green formulations.  Standardized MSDSs format and font and different languages or video training – full disclosure in consistent easy to understand format even to the extent of making it friendly to users who do not read English or perhaps do not read at all.

Other:

  • Products that are economically viable

  • Environmentally friendly packaging/recyclable

  • Purchasing criteria for identifying “green chemicals”

  • Systems approach-integrated/scalable- wide variety of chemicals to meet the need

  • Streamline chemicals - fewer chemicals that cover multiple tasks.