Organized by Jennifer Y. Tanir, M. Barclay Satterfield, Robert Giraud, George Cobb, and David Constable (members of ACS Committee on Environmental Improvement)
We cordially invite conference attendees to participate in an interactive, 1-day workshop, "Charting the Course to Sustainable Chemistry in the Supply Chain," on Wednesday, June 20. The goal of the workshop is to evaluate successes of integrating green/sustainable chemistry into the supply chain in the formulated personal care and household products sector and distill the learnings into a plan for widespread adoption.
One of the barriers to the ubiquitous implementation of sustainable chemistry is strong integration and acceptance throughout the supply chain. Despite many individual single-product or single-company successes, or a few advances in limited sectors’ supply chains, there is still a need for widespread agreement on sustainability goals and cooperation throughout the supply chain.
The interactive workshop will be divided in to three sessions: (1) Lessons Learned; (2) Gaps, Challenges, and Needs; and (3) Facilitated Discussion and Roadmapping, with the goal of developing a plan (and ultimately a publication) to improve incorporation of sustainable chemistry in the supply chain for formulated products. The first two sessions are panel discussions with subsequent breakout discussions for the audience to contribute their ideas to key questions. In the final session, the facilitated discussion and roadmapping aims to articulate the vision for success and identify the 4 or 5 major milestones or key recommendations to move the sector from the current status to goal status.
We are holding this workshop at the 2018 GC&E Conference in order to bring together diverse thinking: technical experts in the formulated personal care and household products with other sectors, learnings from other sectors that can be applied, new ways of thinking, and students who can develop future solutions. Conference attendees are encouraged to participate as an audience, in the breakout discussions, and in developing the plan forward through the roadmapping discussion.
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