As stewards of the community at large, retailers can make a difference in shifting manufacturing standards toward greener, more sustainable products that greatly limit or even eliminate potentially harmful exposure for customers, employees and the environment.
Through data generated from WercsCARP, we have developed a tool that paves a clear path for you and manufacturers to make greener choices, easily and accurately. The chemical-screening tool GreenWERCS analyzes the composition of individual products from ingredient data entered by manufacturers, examining its potential impact on human health and the environment and plotting its combined score.
You can then compare similar products and see which ones are most sustainable as well as manipulate specific weighting measures for various segments and type of products. In addition, manufacturers are also able to see how their types of products stack up to your internal sustainability goals, spurring them to innovate.
GreenWERCS allows you to make informed decisions based on:
- Chemicals harmful to human health, including carcinogens, mutagens and known reproductive toxins
- Chemicals harmful to the environment, including persistents, bioaccumulatives and toxins
By using GreenWERCS to identify and reduce chemically hazardous products, you can choose and sell goods that help sustain and conserve resources as well as work together with manufacturers to move the entire industry towards an ingredient-based approach to sustainability.
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