Hazardous substance reduction in businesses – a tough nut to crack!
The multitude of businesses in municipalities are important actors for reducing chemical risks. Business operations may involve the use of hazardous substances that may be released via wastewater to the environment or there may be occupational exposure at the workplace. NonHazCity provided information including newsletters and brochures, direct consultancy and training courses for different businesses to realise the hazardous substance reduction potential within their sectors.
Hairdressers and cleaning services were among the sectors targeted for these activities. Other NonHazCity target sectors included car repair workshops, laundry services, the construction industry, the woodworking industry, healthcare services, hotels and, in general, offices.
However, most businesses outside the manufacturing sector, in particular small businesses (which represent 99% of all businesses in the EU), do not believe that they use hazardous substance containing products or articles in their operations and workplaces. NonHazCity in its ambitions to raise awareness of hazardous substances in everyday life wanted to show that in some types of businesses, occupational exposure and exposure of customers, can far exceed emissions to the environment.
Hazardous Substances – An important issue for plastic campaigns!
International Seminar ‘Right plastic at right places’ September 8 – 9 2020 in Pärnu, Estonia Plastic is a vector for hazardous substances. The synthetically produced material consists of linear and branched molecular chains and is usually mixed with cocktails of additives. The additives may guarantee the desired functions of our everyday items, such as a […]
The Swedish City of Västerås is on a Plastic Diet
The City of Västerås kick-started a Plastic Diet on the 6th of February 2020. Now, the city is on its way to develop a wide set of activities to minimize plastics and hazardous substances of all different kinds in the city, for example, single-use plastics at events and cigarette butts on the streets. NonHazCity is a […]
NonHazCity in Stockholm
LIFE interviewed NonHazCity 1 manager Arne Jamtrot from the City of Stockholm to find out more about the project and the city’s work on chemicals. The interview can be found here.
