LIFE Chemical Ambassadors for Europe

We increase awareness about hazardous chemicals
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We generally associate hazardous chemicals with heavy industry and polluted hotspots in the vicinity of chemical or other type of productions plants. However, we encounter many hazardous chemicals even in our homes and working places. This is because products like cleaning products, textiles, ICT equipment and construction and interior design materials can contain hazardous substances.

Even though from the global perspective we have good chemicals legislation in the EU, the restrictions and bans of harmful substances in draggin behind. Control of hazardous substances via legislation is slow and bureaucratic process and we should apply prudence principle when we use materials and products that can include hazardous substances.

Objective of the LIFE Chemical Ambassadors for Europe project in Finland is to increase the awareness and skills of the city of Helsinki’s and other Finnish municipalities ecosupporters about hazardous chemicals and to decrease the hazardous substances loading in the working place. In addition the project pilots Finnish ecosupport operation model in the municipalities in France and Greece.

Project produces training materials and implements training for Finnish ecosupporters. Campaign site available at turkuamk.fi/kemikaalikoulutus (in Finnish)

In other parts of the Europe, project objective is to reduce hazardous chemical products in households via consumer campaigns. More information available at LIFE Chembee’s international website .

Contact Us

  • Hannamaria Yliruusi

    Senior Lecturer, Project Manager
    +358 50 598 5599
    hannamaria.yliruusi@turkuamk.fi

Partners

Cooperation organizations in Finland (not partners)

  • City of Helsinki
  • Motiva
  • Ministry of th Environment

Coordinator

  • Baltic Environmental Forum, environmental NGO, Germany

Other partners

  • Partner No. 2 ECOCITY – environmental, urban non-profit association, Greece
  • Partner No. 3 Sustainable Terrestrial System Association, environmental NGO, Portugal
  • Partner No. 4 Reseau l´Environnement Sante, Environment & Health NGO, France
  • Partner No. 5 Global 2000, environmental NGO, Austria
  • Partner No. 6 Turku University of Applied Sciences, Finland
  • Partner No. 7 Foundation “Buy Sustainably”, NGO, Poland
  • Partner No. 8 Swedish Consumer Association, Sweden
  • Partner No. 9 DetoxED, Start-up company, Poland
  • Partner No. 10 Yesil Cember, inter-cultural environmental non-profit company, Germany
  • Partner No. 11 Arnika, environmental NGO, Czech Republic

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