Sustainable cleaning fast forward please! – Reflections on innovation, sustainability, education and collaboration opportunities
MARK STALMANS
Procter & Gamble
Member of HPC Today’s Scientific Advisory Board
At the recent Cleaning Products Europe 2012 meeting (March 2012, Rome), many thought leaders of the detergent and cleaning products industry came together, not just to share sustainable innovation ideas, but to share the many ideas that will shape the future.
Numerous sustainable innovation applications and case studies were presented in Rome by raw material and technology suppliers, market researchers and analysts, detergent companies and appliance manufacturers. These reviews showed how sustainability thinking and lifecycle principles are built into all phases and activities of the cleaning products sector value chain, starting from raw material sourcing, product manufacturing, transport and distrib ...