Programme
Value chain initiatives for retailers managing chemicals
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Chair:
Emma Chynoweth, Chief Customer Officer, Chemical Watch, UK
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Registration
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Keynote The work of the Green Chemistry & Commerce Council Retailer Leadership Council
- Retailers’ critical role in driving safer chemistry: they need to clearly communicate their innovation needs and be willing to collaborate to scale solutions
- The RLC provides a forum to share experiences and engage with the value chain to respond to increasing consumer demands for greener products
- An overview of lessons learned from the RLC over its five year existence
- Session 1: Consumer awareness
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AskREACH Project: Article 33 requests and consumer awareness: impact on retailers
- Your shelves and your clients: communicating information on substances of very high concern (SVHC) in your articles
- AskREACH: What is it and how can it help you to fulfil your obligations?
- How can you as a retailer get involved in AskREACH project?
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Consumer council project finds online products non-compliant with EU regulation
- Compliance of cosmetic products bought on an online marketplace – survey presentation: findings, implications and consumer advice
- Challenges for the consumer when buying online– lack of information and how to improve
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Q&A
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Refreshments
- Session 2: Supply chain drivers
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How transparency and traceability connect chemical compliance with ethics, supply chains and consumers - brands based on knowledge (built environment as a case study)
- Consumer awareness of indoor air quality within retail stores (built environment case study)
- Increasingly user interest in chemicals within their spaces as well as products they buy
- Components where communication of credentials throughout supply chain is fundamental to achieving greater level of sustainability
- Chemicals, sustainability, built environment and supply chain are all linked and require transparency to be understood
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Is Coop Danmark replacing the regulator through its chemicals strategy in their supply chain?
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Dow initiative around transparency in the supply chain
via video link
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Q&A
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Lunch
- Session 3: Safer chemicals in products
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How IKEA identify and substitute chemicals of concern effectively
- IKEA’s position on chemicals
- IKEA’s work to phase out and substitute chemicals of concern including some concrete examples
- Work to avoid regrettable substitutions
- Cooperation with suppliers and sub-suppliers to secure safe, healthy and compliant products
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Trade Association Perspective
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Procter & Gamble: a ‘fast moving consumer goods’ perspective on chemicals safety, transparency and sustainable innovation
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Panel discussion including Q&A on overcoming the challenges retailers and their suppliers face in moving safer chemicals goals forward
- What are the main chemicals management challenges in the value chain?
- And what value chain activities would best drive:
- ingredient transparency
- safer chemicals in consumer products
- meaningful communication with consumers
Moderator: Joel Tickner, Associate Professor and Director Chemicals Policy and Science Initiative, University of Massachusetts Lowell, US
Panel discussion on circular economy and food contact materials
Panelists:
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Refreshments
- Session 4: Engaging with UK REACH after exit
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EU exit/REACH
Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, UK Government
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Q&A
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Informal post Q&A discussion with time for some individual questions
Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, UK Government
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Close of conference
