Tool backed by Apple will help electronics manufacturers swap out unsafe chemicals

Working assembling mobile phones in a Chinese factory.

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Manufacturers of chemical cleaners and degreasers for electronics will have registry of safer, more sustainable chemicals to use in their products

An industry and non-governmental organisation collaboration has launched a tool to help formulators of the cleaners used in electronics assembly swap out toxic chemicals for safer, more sustainable alternatives.