ICIS Blogs : bans

Canada plans to ban phthalates

Green Chemicals — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 16:02:44 GMT

Last week Friday, Canada's Minister of Health announced their planned proposal to ban phthalates in soft vinyl toys and child-care articles as well as further reduction limits of lead in consumer products. Canada is proposing regulations to prevent...(read more)

No plastic bag ban from Wal-Mart

Green Chemicals — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 05:46:01 GMT

Much to the relief of the chemical and plastic manufacturing community , the big box retailer giant Wal-Mart opts to reduce, reuse and recycle instead of implementing plastic shopping bag bans. Yesterday, Wal-Mart announced its goal to reduce its global...(read more)

Chem council's new retail "fixer"

Green Chemicals — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 10:43:13 GMT

The American Chemistry Council created a new position called managing director for retail sustainability, to safeguard the interests of the chemical industry against the growing bans, regulations and standards on certain chemicals being initiated by major...(read more)