Announced in the EU Green Deal as part of the actions to support zero pollution, the forthcoming European Chemicals strategy for sustainability represents a valuable opportunity to pave the way towards a non toxic environment. As HWE, we have developed 8 points to reach this objective – that you wil find further detailed in the paper:
- define substances of concern
- adopt a grouping approach
- integrate missing hazards in the relevant legislation
- ensure traceability
- ban dilution
- guarantee clean material cycles through decontamination
- keep the hazard based approach for waste
- support ECHA work
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HWE’s recommendationS Chemicals strategy for sustainability May 2020