The essential briefing on materials, markets, regulation, packaging, recycling, and the people moving the plastics industry forward.
Printed copies of this document are available free of charge from EPA’s document warehouse, the National Service Center for Environmental Publications. Be sure to search by the EXACT title or EPA publication number. In addition, you can order a set of Notebooks, which profiles numerous industries and government operations, see Obtaining Copies for more information. […]
Printed copies of this document are available free of charge from EPA’s document warehouse, the National Service Center for Environmental Publications. Be sure to search by the EXACT title or EPA publication number. In addition, you can order a set of Notebooks, which profiles numerous industries and government operations, see Obtaining Copies for more information. […]
EPA has developed criteria to assess hazards associated with new polymeric substances based on its experience during the 15 years the New Chemicals Program has been in place. EPA determined in 1984 that the manufacture, processing, distribution in commerce, use, and disposal of new chemical substances meeting certain criteria would not present an unreasonable risk […]
REACH – Important points REACH is a European Community Regulation on chemicals and their safe use. It deals with the Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemical substances. The new law entered into force on 1 June 2007. Download a brief on this regulation. Detailed information may be obtained from http://echa.europa.eu/home_en.asp. A points to be […]
The authorities have found a novel way to keep the city’s traders and shopkeepers on their toes and follow the ban on use of plastic bags: keep the exact line of punishment wrapped in suspense. The Delhi government’s advertisements under the Environment Protection Act have so far emphasised only on the maximum penalty — Rs […]