Mark Rossi, PhD
Chair, Business-NGO Working Group
Research Director, Clean Production Action
P.O. Box 153
Spring Brook, NY 14140
781.391.6743
mark@cleanproduction.org
Chair, Business-NGO Working Group
Research Director, Clean Production Action
P.O. Box 153
Spring Brook, NY 14140
781.391.6743
mark@cleanproduction.org
The Business-NGO Working Group promotes the creation and adoption of safer chemicals and sustainable materials in a way that supports market transitions to a healthy economy, healthy environment, and healthy people.
Spearheaded by the nonprofit environmental organization Clean Production Action, the Working Group is a unique collaboration of business and NGO leaders who are creating a roadmap to the widespread use of safer chemicals in consumer products. In 2006, twenty-two organizations from the environmental community and the electronics, health care, furnishing and retail sectors started the Working Group. In 2008, the Working Group went public and released the Guiding Principles for Chemicals Policy. In 2008, the Working Group went public and released the Guiding Principles for Chemicals Policy.
Today the Working Group is moving forward on three initiatives:
- The “Guiding Principles for Chemicals Policy” Implementation Resource Guide
- “BioSpecs”: Purchasing specifications for more sustainable biobased food service ware products
- Communicating the needs of downstream chemical users in public policy initiatives
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