2006-12-03 07:32:00 · 3 answers · asked by Chocolategirl 2 in Environment
There are different industries involved in the production of household products (steel, mining, chemical and others, producers of household products), but the main one would be the chemical industry.
Enclosed is a link to their website: click on Responsible Care and read more.
The ACC member companies have committed themself to the RC 14001 regulation, a worldwide standard for HSSE = Health, Saftey, Security and Environmental. (UN code is ISO 14001)
Under the point: Product Stewardship they analyze a products "from the craddle to the crave" meaning from the source (mining, oil exploration etc.) through transport, warehousing of raw and finished materials, production, workers safety, environmental safety, transport and sales to the consumer, use of the product and disposal and longterm effects of disposed materials.
Cosniderations to fullfill HSSE and RC14001 are used in the design of new products to reduce the impact.
The laws and regulation from the source to the consumer are already highly regulated, the "weakest link" is the last step: disposal: if you throw a battery containing heavy metals away and do not expose in the correct way all protection mechanism before fail.
(But the most dangerous products are made by me in the kitchen: you have no idea what a bad cook I am)
2006-12-03 08:53:28 · answer #1 · answered by Robert K 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
depends , most hazardous chemicals by law must have a manufacturer label on them
2006-12-03 15:44:10 · answer #2 · answered by bigfred1954 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
DOW chemicals inc.
2006-12-03 15:33:27 · answer #3 · answered by qncyguy21 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋