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Area for effort: Cosmetics Responsible: Municipality of Herning
Problem
We have a large consumption of many different products with many different constituents some of which are hazardous to human health and/or the environment. Information about which products are the least hazardous both to human health and the environment is unavailable or difficult to get at for the ordinary consumer.
Target group
Citizens.
Instrument/Effort: Website with product assessments
Cosmetics are assessed on the basis of declarations that are mandatory according to the Statutory Order on Cosmetic Products. The assessment must be made through the Chemical database on the website of the Information Centre for Environment and Health (IMS).
The product assessments are gathered in a database that is made publicly available on the Internet.
A link will be made to the IMS Chemical database so that citizens who did not find what they were looking for can easier move forward with their own assessment. Links may also be made to many of the other studies made of cosmetics.
The website will invite citizens who did not find the products they were looking for to send in the empty packaging to the municipality. We will then make a product assessment and publish it on the net.
In addition to filing new product assessments it will be necessary to make recurrent audits of existing product assessments.
The database will be made known through different media: local newspapers, the municipality’s website, distribution of pamphlets at different green events.
Indicators
- Number of hits on the website.
- Number of products received from citizens for assessment (and maybe also other questions about the website).
When
August 2005 – December 2006.
How
Product assessments are made and published on the website. |
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