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Challenge
About SCCP
The NPPR 2025 Safer Chemistry Challenge Program (SCCP) is designed to motivate, challenge, and reward facilities to reduce the use of chemicals, especially hazardous chemicals, through source reduction measures. These measures include the following approaches:
- Making changes in production processes and adopting new technologies
- Moving toward cleaner processes that avoid the use and generation of toxic chemicals
- Changing raw materials to include benign or low toxicity materials that degrade into innocuous substances in the environment
- Using tools and design options in support of green chemistry
- Selecting and using safe alternatives
As part of this program, companies are encouraged to partner with state and local technical assistance programs. Such programs can help identify ways to reduce waste and emissions and move toward safer substitute chemicals, which can result in reduced costs, improved productivity, and regulatory compliance.
Challenge Program Benefits
By making changes and participating in the Challenge Program, companies can:
- Improve employee health and safety
- Minimize risk and liability Institute supply chain initiatives
- Improve company image with the community
- Reward investments in the design of increasingly safer chemicals and products
- Reduce cost of compliance and employee protection
- Realize that alternatives may have improved performance
- Improve profitability
Steps to Participating in the Challenge Program
This is a list of state and federal chemicals of concern.
Recognition and Reward Opportunities
To view the Safer Chemistry Challenge Program (SCCP) FAQs.
Upcoming Event
May 22 - 24, 2013 - 4th International Workshop on Advances in Cleaner Production
Dates: May 22 - 24, 2013
Location: São Paulo, Brazil
Theme: “Integrating Cleaner Production into Sustainability Strategies”
Learn More: http://www.advancesincleanerproduction.net/fourth/english/site/oportunidades.html
The Workshop’s theme - “Integrating Cleaner Production into Sustainability Strategies” - intends to stimulate the discussion of crucial importance, with the objectives:
1. The exchange of academic information
2. The presentation of recent results
3. The discussion of common problems and their possible solutions
4. The increase of the contact among academic knowledge and corporative experiences
5. The discussion of the Workshop’s theme
Researchers are invited to submit contributions on all topics related to teaching, research, and practice on Cleaner Production. The works should focus Cleaner Production and especially on the contribution of “Integrating Cleaner Production into Sustainability Strategies”. Authors devoted to correlated themes are also welcome.
Dates
- April 18, 2013 - Notification of full papers acceptance
- May 22 - 24, 2013 - The 4th International Workshop: Advances in Cleaner Production
Keynote Speakers:
Donald Huisingh, University of Tennessee - USA
Keynote: From ‘Dilution is the Solution to Pollution’ to ‘Regional Sustainable Development’ is the Solution for improved Quality of Life for All: A Long and Challenging Journey
Arne Remmen, Aalborg University - Denmark
Keynote: Life Cycle Management – Bringing People, Organizations and Product Chains into the Environmental Field
Mark Brown, University of Florida - USA
Keynote: Emergy and the Economy - Reflections on Sustainability
Simone Bastianoni, University of Siena - Italy
Keynote: Unsustainability - A Syndrome of Human Systems
Jeffrey Burke, National Pollution Prevention Roundtable - USA
Keynote: Environmental Management Systems - Providing the Best Opportunity to Integrate Cleaner Production into Sustainability Strategies
Homepage: www.advancesincleanerproduction.net
P2 Video
Welcome to NPPR!
The National Pollution Prevention Roundtable, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, is the largest membership organization in the United States devoted solely to pollution prevention (P2). The mission of the Roundtable is to provide a national forum for promoting the development, implementation, and evaluation of efforts to avoid, eliminate, or reduce pollution at the source.
