Sustainability

The Design for Life roadmap will help medtech companies comply with the UK NHS’s Net Zero 2045 greenhouse gas emissions target. A dedicated medtech innovation center is mooted.

Cosmetics Europe’s John Chave highlights the important role that industry must have in educating the public about chemicals used in cosmetic products. The association’s COSMILE Europe database launched last year is one such measure to combat misinformation while industry braces for potential impacts resulting from new hazard categories under the Classification, Labeling and Packaging (CLP) regulation.

Single-use packaging producers should heed the 1 October deadline in Colorado’s EPR law for paper and packaging to register with Circular Action Alliance lest they face enforcement action, said an advisor for that organization, which is leading the program’s administration, at IBA’s Cosmetics Convergence Fall 2024 Virtual Symposium.

As the planet heats up and sea levels rise, the need to reduce carbon emissions is becoming ever more urgent. The life sciences industry is just one of many that are looking to cut the carbon it produces.  

In this episode of HBW Insight's Over The Counter podcast, we connect with Neil D’Souza, CEO of Makersite GmbH, a data software company based in Stuttgart, Germany that offers “next generation” product data management tools that help personal care and other industries manage product sustainability, cost and compliance.

The revised EU Urban Wastewater Treatment Directive, which obliges pharmaceutical and cosmetic industries to contribute at least 80% towards the costs of removing micropollutants from wastewater through quaternary treatments, will place an additional burden of around €2bn per year on German manufacturers, says Pharma Deutschland. 

Key challenges facing companies working to implement the European Sustainability Reporting Standards have been identified by the European Financial Reporting Advisory Group. Onur Durmus, Partner at sustainability consultancy ERM, shares his thoughts on EFRAG’s findings and offers takeaways for firms that will be subject to the EU’s Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive.

The public-private partnership follows a meeting in June between Unilever’s chief sustainability officer Rebecca Marmot, USAID administrator Samantha Power, EY global vice chalir, sustainability, Amy Brachio, and Sens. Dan Sullivan, R-AK, and Sheldon Whitehouse, D-RI, to discuss the impetus for the CIRCLE Alliance and Unilever’s experience to date implementing its plastics strategy.

In this installment of HBW Insight’s “Inside Regulatory Affairs” series, Meredith Spencer and Gary Peiffer, regulatory leaders at e.l.f. Beauty, discuss the accelerated pace of legislative and regulatory change around the world, increased focus on chemicals’ environmental as well as human health impacts, and the importance of driving a collaborative, “problem solver” mentality throughout organizations.

The UK will require all antibiotic manufacturers looking to apply for funding under its subscription payment model to demonstrate they are meeting waste discharge standards in a bid to reduce antimicrobial resistance.