Product Sustainability Summit Europe 2022

• Planetary boundaries for chemical pollution exceeded
• Chemical and waste issues a priority, as important as climate change
• Key role for waste management and recycling
• The sector???s responsibility for the quality of secondary materials and resources??
• Recycled materials/resources free from substances of concern (SoC)
• Lack of information about SoC and importance of Scip dissemination portal

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Nicolas Humez

Chairman, Hazardous Waste Europe (HWE)

• Tarkett???s holistic ??corporate strategy for a safe and circular economy ahead of regulatory change????
• Ecodesigning circular products with good materials, in closed loops and at scale
• Addressing transparency needs and digital product passport development????
• State of play and perspectives: dealing responsibly with legacy chemicals????

Myriam Tryjefaczka

Director Sustainability and Public Affairs EMEA, Tarkett, France

• A theory of change??
• Three-step learning process
  • a common vision for transparency??
  • selection of instruments??

• Cross-impact analysis??
• First indicative results??

Martin F??hr

Professor for Public Law, Comparative Law and Legal Theory, sofia/Darmstadt University for Applied Sciences, Germany

• Brief history of regulations affecting halogenated flame retardants
• Recent activity to regulate as a class or sub-class
• Alternatives, polymeric bromine and non-halogens

Mike Goode

Chief Commercial Officer, FRX Polymers Inc

• Polymer registration, generic approach to risk management, essential use, restriction and authorisation reform, mixture assessment factor, CLP revision affecting downstream user formulators??
• What are the expected impacts for downstream users???
• Suggestions to manage the impacts, while still achieving the policy objectives??

Susanne Zaenker

General Director, A.I.S.E

• The role of ecolabels in a circular economy
• Phased approach to PFAS prohibition
• Lessons learned and next steps

Nina Hwang

Lead Environmental Scientist, Green Seal Inc

• Regulatory landscape for digital product passport: emerging transparency and traceability needs
• Role of blockchain: Game-changing technology in supply chain communication
• Experience from front runners in the chemical industry:
• Dow: recycling of?? polyurethane foam from mattress by sharing ingredient information while protecting proprietary information
• Solvay: tracking polyamide fibres and manufacturing operations in clothing manufacturing to enable selective recollection and recycling??
• Procter & Gamble: palm oil tracking and mass balance to prove sustainable origin of raw materials

Lorenzo Zullo

CEO, ChemChain

• Clariant???s Portfolio Value Program (PVP)??
• Case study of safe and sustainable flame retardants ??? what has been achieved, what is still missing? ??
• GreenScreen, TCO Accepting Substances List, ChemForward SAFER programme??
• Reducing the carbon footprint ??? renewable carbon sources, mass balance based ??

• EU criteria development for safe and sustainable by design ??
• The wider context: pinfa.org roadmap for the chemicals strategy for sustainability??

• Challenges for existing versus new businesses and products????
• Framing the sustainability proposition and accounting for trade-offs and uncertainties across the value chain?????
• Battlefields ??? prioritising action and managing constraints?????
• Embedding and realising sustainability within your organisation and value chain?????
• Data and reporting ??? shaping the conversation with your stakeholders?????

Sue Bullock

Principal, Product Safety and Stewardship Head of Industrial and Specialty Chemicals, TSG Consulting

• Supply chain transparency is a growing need, but also one of the largest challenges brands face today??
• What makes supply chain transparency so difficult?
• Some ways brands can address supply chain transparency challenges??

Lori Bestervelt

Operations Lead, Scivera, Scivera/Enhesa