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The rise and fall of mercury

The use of mercury could slowly die out as Europe and the US recently passed a ban to export one of the most infamous element in chemical history. Yesterday, the US Congress approved the Mercury Market Minimization Act of 2008 , which would ban the export of elemental mercury, prohibit federal agencies...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-30-2008
Regulatory and sustainability in cosmetics

On the second day of the HBA cosmetic show in New York City as I attended some presentations on their third annual regulatory summit, the buzzwords that frequently circulated throughout the program were green, California, bisphenol-A, phthalates, REACH , consumer advocacy groups, organic, certification...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-11-2008
Cleaner livestock waste

Residents near farms or livestock processing facilities will soon breathe a cleaner (and less smelly) sigh of relief. Bion Environmental Technologies said they now have a patent approval for their phosphorus removal process in livestock waste treatment. The company said excess nutrients from livestock...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-12-2008
Chicken gas powers Chinese farm

Biogas from chicken manure will now power a big chicken farm in Beijing using GE's Jenbacher gas engines . According to GE, the plant, with annual capacity of 14,600 megawatt/hour electricity, is the first of its type in China designed to help reduce suburban electricity shortage. With 3 million...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-05-2008
E-waste export ban introduced

A bill banning the export of electronic waste to developing nations was introduced last week in Congress by Environment and Hazardous Materials subcommittee chairman Gene Green (D-Texas), and Rep. Mike Thompson (D-Calif.), a member of the Congressional E-waste Working Group. The H.RES.1395 resolution...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-04-2008
EPA gets pesticide lawsuit

I wonder how many lawsuits the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) gets each week? I just got this press release from the group Earthjustice, and they, among a coalition of farmworkers, public health, and environmental groups, filed a lawsuit today against the EPA to stop the use of organochlorine...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-24-2008
Where's your old celphone?

According to a survey by Nokia , only 3% of the people they interviewed in 13 countries recycled their old mobile phones, 4% threw them in the landfill, and a majority left them on drawers or other places at home to gather dust. Others sell their used devices or passed them to families and friends. The...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-14-2008
Mercury link to dolphin deaths

Another news from Australia, scientists from the continent found that mercury poisoning could be a contributing factor for why dolphins strand themselves on the shore. According to an article from the Royal Society of Chemistry , scientists from the Monash University in Melbourne found higher mercury...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-02-2008
Views on green cleaning

ICIS Chemical Business (disclosure: I work for ICIS ) published its second soap and detergent issue for the year and like the first one, the global cleaning industry continue its major focus on sustainability, regulation and innovation. As far as the green cleaning trend goes, eco-labeling seems to be...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 06-24-2008
ex-Fujicolor guy fined for green crime

A former employee of Fujicolor Processing recently plead guilty to cherry-picking samples of the company's wastewater effluent In Terrell, Texas. According to the Department of Justice , Gerald Lakota presented on their monthly discharge monitoring reports only good sample to meet their facility's...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 06-20-2008

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