About project

At project stage 1, information collection and analysis, experience exchange, and workshops with stakeholders will collate national circumstances and experiences (challenges or developments) to help optimize the design of actions, accordingly of improved stakeholder roles, for the pilot cases.

Eight jointly developed pilots will be implemented at stage 2, targeting different parts of the life cycle of the products, and different stakeholders. Some of them will target supply actors (distributors / importers / retail shops / technology providers), some users of the chemicals (e.g. producers /formulators and professional downstream users), and some waste handling actors. These should lead respectively to 8 improved sources of loads to the Baltic Sea. Furthermore, one exploration study is planned to be organized with a certification organisation.

This approach aims to secure achievement of reduction of environmental inputs at pilots’ scale. But it also should help derive lessons at stage 3, about the most effective and resource (time, cost) efficient modes of action on the life cycle of industrial products as a whole. National authorities can later utilize this knowledge to consider and initiate a standard set of preferred coordinated actions every time a substance used in widespread industrial products becomes prioritized regionally. In that way, they can promote and support enhanced stakeholder roles in reducing inputs to the Baltic Sea.

To develop and achieve the planned project work (selection of most promising actions to pilot, pilot implementation and coordination, analysis and utilization of results towards broader effects), the project consortium aims to interact and collaborate with a wide range of stakeholders that includes relevant industry, academia, regulatory, NGO and environmental management actors.