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Reports and Studies Aug 01, 2016 Progress Report – 2016: The Declaration of the Global Plastics Associations for Solutions on Marine Litter This 2016 Progress Report summarizes the status of commitments made under the Global Declaration.
Reports and Studies Jul 26, 2016 Study from Trucost Finds Plastics Reduce Environmental Costs by Nearly 4 Times Compared to Alternatives A new study by Trucost finds the environmental cost of using plastics in consumer goods and packaging is nearly four times less than it would be if plastics were replaced with alternative materials.
Reports and Studies Jul 26, 2016 Plastics and Sustainability: A Valuation of Environmental Benefits, Costs and Opportunities for Continuous Improvement A valuation of environmental benefits, costs and opportunities for continuous improvement.
Reports and Studies Jul 26, 2016 Executive Summary: Plastics and Sustainability: A Valuation of Environmental Benefits, Costs and Opportunities for Continuous Improvement
Reports and Studies Jul 01, 2016 The Industrial Gases Industry: Essential to US Manufacturing, Health Care, Domestic Energy Production and Energy Efficiency For more than 100 years, the industrial gases industry has supplied sectors that are essential to the economy nationwide.
Reports and Studies May 01, 2016 Measurement of Endogenous Versus Exogenous Formaldehyde-Induced DNA-Protein Crosslinks in Animal Tissues by Stable Isotope Labeling and Ultrasensitive Mass Spectrometry DNA-protein crosslinks (DPC) arise from a wide range of endogenous and exogenous chemicals, such as chemotherapeutic drugs and formaldehyde. Importantly, recent identification of aldehydes as endogenous genotoxins in Fanconi anemia has provided new insight into disease causation.
Reports and Studies Apr 23, 2016 BCC Research Carolinas Study The primary objective of this study was to provide a comparison of water distribution and transmission (pressurized) pipe installation and costs between three communities in North and South Carolina.
Reports and Studies Mar 04, 2016 Shedding Light on Studies Contending Associations of Human Biomonitoring Levels with Health Effects ACC Science and Research Highlights - March 2016.
Reports and Studies Mar 03, 2016 Socio-Economic Evaluation of the Global Silicones Industry - Asia This summary provides key information to stakeholders on the important contributions that silicones and the related materials, silanes and siloxanes, make to Asian society.
Reports and Studies Mar 03, 2016 Socio-Economic Evaluation of the Global Silicones Industry - Europe This summary provides key information to stakeholders on the important contributions that silicones and the related materials, silanes and siloxanes, make to European society.
Reports and Studies Mar 03, 2016 Socio-Economic Evaluation of the Global Silicones Industry - The Americas This summary provides key information to stakeholders on the important contributions that silicones and the related materials, silanes and siloxanes, make to society in the Americas.
Reports and Studies Mar 03, 2016 Socio-Economic Evaluation of the Global Silicones Industry - Final Report This independent report evaluates the socio-economic importance of the silicones industry to the global economy.
Reports and Studies Mar 02, 2016 An Updated Re-Analysis of the Mortality Risk from Nasopharyngeal Cancer in the National Cancer Institute Formaldehyde Worker Cohort Study To determine whether the National Cancer Institute's (NCI) suggestion of a persistent increased mortality risk for nasopharyngeal cancer (NPC) in relation to formaldehyde (FA) exposure is robust with respect to alternative methods of data analysis.
Reports and Studies Feb 15, 2016 BCC Research Ohio Study The primary objective of this study was to provide a comparison of water transmission (pressurized) pipeline installation and costs between two Ohio communities.
Reports and Studies Feb 04, 2016 The Bottom-Up Approach to Bounding Potential Low-Dose Cancer Risks from Formaldehyde: An Update In 2013, we proposed a novel bottom-up approach to bounding low-dose cancer risks that may result from small exogenous exposures to chemicals that are always present in the body as a result of normal biological processes.
