Product Stewardship
What Product Stewardship means for your business
Product stewardship is a holistic approach where every participant in a product’s lifecycle, including designers, manufacturers, suppliers, retailers, and consumers, shares responsibility for reducing its health, safety, and environmental impacts.
Unlike traditional waste-focused models, product stewardship considers the entire lifecycle, from design and material selection through manufacturing and use to end-of-life recovery, recycling, or safe disposal.
Extending beyond Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR), product stewardship spans cradle to grave, aligning with global sustainability expectations and increasing regulatory demand for transparency, responsible chemical management, and safer product choices.
Why product stewardship matters
The industrial advancements of the 1950s brought innovation and growth, but they also introduced chemicals whose long-term impacts were neither understood nor adequately disclosed.
Decades of research and legal findings have since demonstrated that even low-level exposures can affect human and environmental health.
Repeated industry failures, including non-disclosure of known harms, withheld data, unsafe disposal practices, and influence over regulatory processes, have eroded trust.
Today:
- Companies, communities, and regulators demand transparency.
- Organisations face vast volumes of emerging toxicological and environmental data.
- Global regulations are tightening at an unprecedented pace.
Modern product stewardship responds to this challenge by requiring validated testing, full disclosure, and robust, data-driven management across supply chains.
The challenge for modern organisations
Managing chemicals effectively has never been more complex. Organisations must navigate:
• A growing number of chemicals in use
• Rapid releases of new scientific insights
• Multijurisdictional regulatory obligations
• Limited time and resources
ChemAlert advantages
Recognising that attaining full product disclosure before procurement, supported by deep data interrogation and scientific validation, is essential, ChemAlert provides organisations with a strategic advantage throughout the chemical lifecycle.
1. A global source of truth
ChemAlert enables businesses to:
- Automate multijurisdictional compliance
- Gain end-to-end visibility across supply chains
- Ensure full ingredient traceability and disclosure
- Access independent toxicological and ecological assessments
2. Bayesian probabilistic risk framework
ChemAlert integrates:
- Regulatory data
- Toxicological and environmental science
- Historical usage insights
- Global risk indicators
3. Risk platform intelligence
The Future in Your Hands. Chemical Footprint Metric monitors toxic material use and rates each product with a Footprint Index.
Risk Assessment Categories:
- CMRs (Carcinogens, Mutagens, Reproductive Toxins)
- Endocrine disruptors
- Environmental toxins
Product stewardship advantages
Implementing a robust product stewardship strategy delivers significant organisational value
Lifecycle stewardship with ChemAlert
ChemAlert supports end-to-end product stewardship across every lifecycle stage.
Product Risk Assessment
Product Selection
Procurement
Transport
Storage
Training & Application
Restocking
Neutralisation and safe disposal
Partnering for global impact
Together with our worldwide client base, we’re shaping a future where chemical management is proactive, predictive, and aligned with global sustainability goals. Transform your chemical management with sustainability-driven technology.