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World Toilet Summit

I was eating breakfast while surfing the web, and thinking of serious election-aftermath stuff to post in the blog when this news about this week's ongoing World Toilet Summit in Macau caught my attention. At first I was amused by the notion of a global toilet expo and all the crappy notions that...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 11-05-2008
NGOs' chemical list for dummies

Public activists and non-government organizations especially in Europe seem to know more about the risks and hazards of specific chemical products more than the chemical producers and consumers themselves. Take for example the list of "high concern" chemicals called the Reach SIN list 1.0 provided...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-22-2008
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
Cosmetic show in full green force

I've been running around at the annual HBA cosmetic event in New York city for the past two days and that led me to not being able to do my blogging job, for which I apologize. Fortunately, the 3-day show is full of green news, events and presentations. For my stories on new green packaging products...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-11-2008
Green marketing 101

Marketers may have to attend Greenwashing seminars and classes if they want to learn the do's and don'ts on how to use green words in their advertisings. All over the world, public advocates are scrutinizing every green word in marketing and advertising and this summer alone found major companies...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-26-2008
Market loss on phthalates ban

According to this article from ICIS News , the temporary ban of some plasticizer phthalates on kids' products can cause permanent consumption loss in this end-market. The American Chemistry Council (ACC) hold a media web conference yesterday talking about the consequences of the phthalates ban under...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-12-2008
Plastic bag fuss on West Coast

A lot of plastic news happening in the West Coast particularly in Seattle and Los Angeles that I did not have the time to talk about last week. According to several news sources, the city council of Los Angeles, California, voted a resolution on July 22 to ban all plastic bags from retail stores starting...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-12-2008
Toxics in scented laundry, air fresheners?

More bad news for consumer products this in time in the laundry market (which has seen its big share of public advocates complaints) as well as air fresheners. A study from the University of Washington (UW) found that chemicals with potential toxicity or health hazards are being used in top selling laundry...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-29-2008
EPA to ban carbofuran pesticide

Then US Environmental Protection Agency said last week that it has identified risks associated with the pesticide carbofuran and is proceeding toward cancelling the pesticide's registration. "EPA has concluded that dietary, worker, and ecological risks are of concern for all uses of carbofuran...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-28-2008
Cosmetic safety in question. Again.

No matter how safe or thoroughly tested cosmetic ingredients are, there's always one (or two or more) that will always be put into question. Just in time for the summer, the Environmental Working Group claimed that out of nearly 1,000 sunscreen products in the US market, four out of five offer inadequate...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-28-2008

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