Government institutions can take action by:

• Strengthening and enforcing new policies and incentives for the chemical industry to phase out harmful chemicals and waste adapt their business practices to better protect human health and the environment.
• Adopting Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) schemes and enforcing businesses to label and certify safe and toxic-free products.
• Promoting economic instruments and models that create a level playing field to produce chemically safe products and processes.
• Supporting future financing and collaborative research opportunities that advance green chemistry and sustainable innovations that eliminate hazardous chemicals from product value chains. 

Businesses and investors can take action by:

• Phasing out the manufacture and sale of products that contain hazardous chemicals and ensuring all products, both toxic-free or containing chemicals, are labeled.
• Embracing manufacturing practices that ensure products stay in use as long as possible, can be returned for repair, resale, or reuse, and can be recycled instead of being disposed of at end-of-life.
• Improving industrial processes to prevent chemical and waste leakages.
• Adopting integrated and lifecycle approaches for chemical management and corporate policies that promote sustainable supply chain management and waste reduction.
• Transitioning to green and safer chemicals and chemical compounds that prevent negative human health and environment impacts.

Civil society and individuals can play an important role in the global efforts to manage chemicals and waste in their local communities. Some actions that can be taken forward, include:

• Supporting the scientific community to conduct research studies that provide evidence to support policy decisions and regulatory actions.
• Incentivizing healthy and sustainable consumer choices and consumption.
• Raising awareness of common routes of exposure to harmful chemicals in daily products and processes.
• Opting for goods and products that are toxic-free or contain less harmful chemicals and advocating for the inclusion of transparent product sustainability information related to chemicals.