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Why We Chose to be Charter Members of the Ocean Plastics Leadership NetworkACC Plastics Division is proud to be a charter member of SoulBuffalo’s newly launched Ocean Plastics Leadership Network (OPLN). The OPLN is a much welcomed evolution and formalization of the work begun during the May 2019 summit in the North Atlantic. Learn more.
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Reports and Studies Dec 18, 2019 ICCA LRI 2019 Workshop Full Report 21st Century Approaches for Evaluating Exposures, Biological Activity, and Risks of Complex Substances: Report of an ICCA-LRI Workshop Co-organised with the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre
Reports and Studies Dec 18, 2019 2018 National Post-Consumer Plastics Bottle Recycling Report This study is a cooperative effort between the Plastics Division of ACC and APR, the goal of which is to quantify the amount of high density polyethylene (HDPE) and polypropylene (PP) bottles collected for recycling, as well as the rate of recycling of those bottles.
Reports and Studies Dec 16, 2019 Peak Exposures in Epidemiologic Studies and Cancer Risks: Considerations for Regulatory Risk Assessment The focus was on potential etiologic relations between environmental chemical exposures and cancer risks.
Reports and Studies Dec 16, 2019 Regulatory Implications of New Science in Evaluating Formaldehyde Leukemogenicity Given formaldehyde's commercial importance, environmental ubiquity and endogenous production, accurate hazard classification and risk evaluation of whether exposure to formaldehyde from occupational, residential and consumer products causes leukemia are critical.
Reports and Studies Dec 16, 2019 Considerations for Refining the Risk Assessment Process for Formaldehyde: Results from an Interdisciplinary Workshop Twenty-four invited-experts participated with expertise in epidemiology, toxicology, science integration and risk evaluation.
Reports and Studies Sep 21, 2019 Special Research Study: Comparison of Water Pipe Installation Lengths and Costs in Wisconsin: Madison, Milwaukee, Kenosha, and Waukesha ACC retained BCC Research to investigate and compare municipal water supply pipe (i.e., pressure main) costs in four communities in Wisconsin.
Reports and Studies Aug 20, 2019 2019 Guide to the Business of Chemistry The 2019 Guide to the Business of Chemistry is a data-packed resource that provides an historic overview of the chemical industry through 2018.
Reports and Studies Jul 16, 2019 ICCA-LRI and JRC Workshop: Summary and Outcomes ACC Science & Research Highlights July 16, 2019.
Reports and Studies Jul 11, 2019 Clarification to the July 8, 2019 Alert Bulletin Clarification to the July 8, 2019 Alert Bulletin.
Reports and Studies Jul 11, 2019 2019 - Code of Practice Compliance Letter 2019 - Code of Practice Compliance Letter
Reports and Studies Jul 02, 2019 2017 National Post-Consumer Plastic Bag & Film Recycling Report The thirteenth annual report on the amount of plastic bags and film recovered in the United States for recycling.
Reports and Studies Jul 02, 2019 2017 National Post-Consumer Non-Bottle Rigid Plastic Recycling Report The eleventh annual report on U.S. pounds of postconsumer non-bottle rigid plastics—packaging and non-packaging—recovered for recycling.
Reports and Studies Jun 24, 2019 PPI: The Economic Impact of State-based Chemicals Regulation The Progressive Policy Institute examines how states focus their chemical regulation efforts and highlights the risk-based approach using siloxanes as an example.
Reports and Studies Jun 10, 2019 Access Threshold of Toxicological Concern (TTC) Values for Over 40,000 Chemicals In many cases a Threshold of Toxicological Concern (TTC) value can be used in lieu of chemical-specific data for substances that lack toxicology test data. However, it can take time, effort and specific skill sets to derive a TTC value.
Reports and Studies Jun 01, 2019 The Economic Benefits of Ethylene Oxide and the Potential Cost of Deselection A versatile and valuable building block of chemistry, ethylene oxide (EO) and its derivatives help make many of the products we use every day.
