What is the CCMC?
Designed to support retailers, brands, manufacturers, and distributors in a way that’s unique to their product category and life stage, the Clean Chemistry and Materials Coalition (CCMC) provides OIA members with a pathway for eliminating and replacing harmful chemicals and materials, innovating on sustainability and building consumer trust in their favorite brands. OIA’s pathway to cleaner chemistry and materials is to discover your organization’s chemical management baseline, plan by setting chemicals management goals, act on building your chemicals management program, accelerate your program, advocate for safe chemistry policies, and share progress with the public. Each year members engage in the CCMC program to help them along that pathway, report on their progress, and ultimately adopt safer chemicals that deliver functional, durable, and trustworthy materials and products.
OIA is here to help with:
Collaboration
- Impact CoLabs provide an opportunity to reduce emissions with industry partners where it’s too difficult to do it alone.
- Access to members-only community engagement platform for sharing technical and legislative expertise, learnings, and best practices
- Consultation with technical experts on custom approaches for identifying harmful chemicals and substituting cleaner alternatives
- In-person convenings to hear the latest industry highlights, be part of active discussions, and network with industry peers
- Task forces provide a space for members to discuss industry solutions to pressing challenges, including topics such as sustainable materials, supplier engagement, compliance, and more.
Education
- Resources to help companies navigate complicated compliance timelines and meet legislative requirements
- Educational webinars to stay abreast of industry progress, hear case studies, and learn tactical steps to take to improve your products
- Legislative tracking tool that gives OIA members real-time information on chemicals and sustainability legislation by state and on a federal level
- Guidance to help companies engage the entire value chain in chemicals management and reporting
Collective Action
- Science-informed public comment and advocacy on potential legislation, rulemakings, and public hearings
- Impact CoLabs to achieve greater impact together than could be achieved alone
- Guidance for the industry to use together, update together, and maximize impact
- A community of companies facing the same challenges that are willing to share about their experiences
Leadership
- The Clean Chemistry & Materials Coalition Steering Committee guides strategy for the coalition to ensure companies have the opportunities and information they need to help them progress
- Annual Impact Report to learn where the CCMC stands in its journey for clean chemicals and materials
- Annual survey to provide feedback to OIA on what your company needs
Meet the CCMC team of experts and learn about the program
Join our member-led collective
Become an OIA member and join our passionate group of business leaders, sustainability experts, policymakers, and outdoor enthusiasts committed to business growth and innovation while protecting—and growing access to—the benefits of the outdoors for everyone.
Call 303.444.3353 to speak to a membership manager today.