Cleaning products, chemicals

My young son s health was damaged by chemicals (in particular pesticides, insecticides and herbicides) and he was affected both mentally and physically. As an infant James had a major exposure to pesticides and he had severe reaction to vaccinations when he was four months old. Also, we had a flea plague here and our home was sprayed. He became very ill. When he was eighteen months old our home was renovated and painted with the normal toxic paint products. He continued to have exposures at school. I had no idea they were fogging the trees and around the classrooms with pesticides. At school he was also exposed to toxic paint products and cleaning products, chemical deodorizers in the toilets and chemically perfumed products on the staff and children. 

The detergent range alcohols and their derivatives have a wide variety of uses ia consumer and iadustrial products either because of surface-active properties, or as a means of iatroduciag a long chain moiety iato a chemical compound. The major use is as surfactants (qv) ia detergents and cleaning products. Only a small amount of the alcohol is used as-is rather most is used as derivatives such as the poly(oxyethylene) ethers and the sulfated ethers, the alkyl sulfates, and the esters of other acids, eg, phosphoric acid and monocarboxyhc and dicarboxyhc acids. Major use areas are given ia Table 11. 

Hydrogen chloride and the aqueous solution, muriatic acid, find appHcation in many industries. In general, anhydrous HCl is consumed for its chlorine value, whereas aqueous hydrochloric acid is often utilized as a nonoxidizing acid. The latter is used in metal cleaning operations, chemical manufacturing, petroleum well activation, and in the production of food and synthetic mbber. 

Chemical Specialties Manufacturers Association 1001 Connecticut Avenue, NW Washington, D.C. 20036 Standard Reference TestingMaterials for insecticides (see Insect control technology), cleaning products, sanitizers, brake fluids, corrosion inhibitors (see Corrosion and corrosion control), antifreezes, poHshes, and floor waxes. 

Less stable parts of the sludge can be treated by holding in tanks for extended periods of time to allow the weaker emulsion to break and separate a clean product. The mote stable sludges can be broken by mechanical action in filters or centrifuges, by recycle to the furnace for redistillation, or by redistillation in auxiliary units. Chemical attack via oxidation or complexing agents that break the emulsion has also been employed. 

Specialty sulfonic acid-based surfactants make up a rather large portion of surfactant production in the United States. Approximately 136,000 metric tons of specialty sulfonic acid-based surfactants were produced in 1992, which included alpha-olefin sulfonates, sulfobetaines, sulfosuccinates, and alkyl diphenyl ether disulfonates (64). These materials found use in the areas of household cleaning products, cosmetics (qv), toiletries, emulsion polymerization, and agricultural chemical manufacture. 

Disodium Tetraborate Decahydrate, In the Urhted States, neady all the refined borax is used for household cleaning products. Small amounts are used as fertilizers and herbicides. USP-grade borax is used in cosmetic and toilet goods, in which purity is demanded. Special quahty-grade borax is used in electrolytic capacitors, in nuclear apphcations, and as a laboratory chemical. 

Our Electronic Chemicals group is an industry leader in most basic manufacturing of Wet Process Chemistries, from UHP Straights (100 ppt qualities). Custom formulated Wet Etch, Solvents and Solvent Blends, and Cleaning Products. 

Several environment-friendly surface preparation for the treatment of mbber soles with radiations have been recently studied. These treatments are clean (no chemicals or reactions by-products are produced) and fast, and furthermore online bonding at shoe factory can be produced, so the future trend in surface modification of substrates in shoe industry will be likely directed to the industrial application of those treatments. Corona discharge, low-pressure RF gas plasma, and ultraviolet (UV) treatments have been successfully used at laboratory scale to improve the adhesion of several sole materials in shoe industry. Recently, surface modification of SBR and TR by UV radiation has been industrially demonstrated in shoe industry... 

In contrast to specifying to suppliers what chemicals or materials are restricted, it is useful to specify exactly what chemicals and materials are desired. Once a material or chemical is well characterized, and it is considered benign with respect to human and environmental health, it can be added to a preferred or positive list (i.e., P-list). For example, a textile manufacturer may source certified organic cotton, or polyester made with antimony-free catalysts, to develop a product line based on these fibres. Or a cleaning product formulator may seek bio-based solvents or rapidly biodegradable surfactants consistent with their product development objectives. 

Figure 8.3 The Green Screen for Safer Chemicals Benchmarks. Reproduced with permission of Clean Production Action.

Defining positive as the absence of hazard. Using Clean Production Action s Green Screen, the ideal chemicals are defined as those that have low hazard for all relevant hazard endpoints as exemplified by Benchmark 4. While it is anticipated that the majority of chemicals will not ciurently reach Benchmark 4, it is stiU important to have a vision of what good (and... 

Best in class approach. The best in class approach is based on a continuum in order to compare chemicals or materials within a particular functional class such as surfactants or chelating agents used for cleaning products. 

The CleanGredients development model engages a multi-stakeholder coalition of participants from government entities, environmental organizations, industry associations, cleaning product formulators and distributors, and chemical manufacturers and suppliers, working to shift the direction of industrial and institutional (I I) cleaning product... 

CleanGredients is an online database of cleaning product ingredients A one-stop-shop for green formulation . The database contains physical chemical data, MSDSs, technical datasheets, and environmental and human health hazard data on raw materials used to formulate cleaning products. 

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