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INDUSTRIAL CHEMICALS by Mark Dorfman |
Provides regularly updated databases on a wide variety of industrial chemical issues, from Hazardous Substance Fact Sheets to quantitative data on industrial chemical use and waste generation. Software is provided to allow customized data searches. Technical assistance is available and usually quite helpful.
2. Massachusetts Toxics Use Reduction Institute
Information on the latest clean technology plus policy developments in Massachusetts, spurred by its 1989 Toxics Use Reduction Act. Technologies focus primarily on industrial cleaning chemicals. Provides links to a wide variety of technical reference materials.
Thorough, concise, and easy to read information on a wide variety of industrial chemicals and related issues. Lists the titles of past issues, also accessible via the Web.
4. Environmental Information Center
General overview of leading environmental issues related to industrial chemicals, such as climate change and endocrine disruption.
5. United Nations Environment Program, Industry and Environment
Provides short, easy to read descriptions of clean-technology success stories, particularly for industrial chemical users (as opposed to industrial chemical manufacturers) in developing countries.
Also see: Toxics and Waste, Institute for Global Communications which has a rich source of links to other sites as does the US Environmental Protection Agency's Toxics Release Inventory page. There are also a number of pay-to-access sites that provide a greater depth of chemical information. These include the National Library of Medicine's Grateful Med site, which provides health related information, and the American Chemical Society's Chemical Abstracts Services , providing detailed information on properties, structure, and uses of industrial chemicals.
Mark Dorfman is Senior Research Associate at INFORM in New York City.