Comments on: Why REACH blinds and boggles some, busies others http://www.techforecasters.com/weblog/archives/why-reach-blinds-and-boggles-some-busies-others/ Read what our thought leaders are thinking, in our every-other-Friday TFI blog entries. Sign up with your favorite RSS Feed service and get an automated alert whenever there's a new posting to the TFI Weblog. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 04:05:22 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 By: Stephen Greene http://www.techforecasters.com/weblog/archives/why-reach-blinds-and-boggles-some-busies-others/comment-page-1/#comment-16283 Stephen Greene Wed, 15 Oct 2008 11:30:34 +0000 http://www.techforecasters.com/weblog/?p=166#comment-16283 Pamela, your article is right on target. Some companies are getting the point, integrate environmental issues into their business plan and succeeding nicely. Most companies approach these new requirements as a compliance issue and will waste precious resources to do what a little early planning could have accomplished. Course corrections are easy when you are headding in the right direction as opposed to have to make a complete turn around. Most small US companies fail to grasp that the EU is setting the standards for product envrionmental requirements. Some how the impact of RoHS on the supply chain has fadded from their memory at a time when greater change will be driven by REACH. Stephen Greene Pamela, your article is right on target. Some companies are getting the point, integrate environmental issues into their business plan and succeeding nicely. Most companies approach these new requirements as a compliance issue and will waste precious resources to do what a little early planning could have accomplished. Course corrections are easy when you are headding in the right direction as opposed to have to make a complete turn around. Most small US companies fail to grasp that the EU is setting the standards for product envrionmental requirements. Some how the impact of RoHS on the supply chain has fadded from their memory at a time when greater change will be driven by REACH.

Stephen Greene

]]> By: Kris http://www.techforecasters.com/weblog/archives/why-reach-blinds-and-boggles-some-busies-others/comment-page-1/#comment-16212 Kris Fri, 10 Oct 2008 14:19:15 +0000 http://www.techforecasters.com/weblog/?p=166#comment-16212 I am come from India where recycling was for long followed under the guise of a frugal lifestyle, even when it was not necessary to do so.Possesions (and not even precious) passed on from generations to generations. My grandmother (she is 80) still uses the same utensils she used when she got married, she still has all my milk powder tin cans from when i was a baby. A new saree was worn for occasions, used as daily ware after a few years of use, used as a part of a quilt for some more, then used to bulk up the matress and then cut into pieces and used as a duster. that has shaped my habbits as a recycler (to my wifes annoyance who not only thorws away the packaging but also throws away 20% of what we buy as part of a lifestyle she was brought up with). I am come from India where recycling was for long followed under the guise of a frugal lifestyle, even when it was not necessary to do so.Possesions (and not even precious) passed on from generations to generations. My grandmother (she is 80) still uses the same utensils she used when she got married, she still has all my milk powder tin cans from when i was a baby. A new saree was worn for occasions, used as daily ware after a few years of use, used as a part of a quilt for some more, then used to bulk up the matress and then cut into pieces and used as a duster. that has shaped my habbits as a recycler (to my wifes annoyance who not only thorws away the packaging but also throws away 20% of what we buy as part of a lifestyle she was brought up with).

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