SubSelect - Guide for the Selection of Sustainable Chemicals | Umweltbundesamt

This guide helps you to select more sustainable chemicals. The selection of sustainable chemicals has beneficial effects for occupational safety, consumer and environmental protection. In the medium run, sustainability leads to more innovative uses of chemicals, and is therefore also economically attractive. More sustainable products mean: fewer pollutants, greater acceptance, less adverse impacts on the environment and to society, with simultaneous success in the market.
SubSelect guides you as a manufacturer, formulator or end user of substances and mixtures to gather information on hazard, mobility, resource and CO2-emission aspects and prioritise subsitution needs or compare alternatives.
SubSelect enables selecting the following languages: German, English, Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian.
SubSelect is a Windows Access program. The tool is provided with the candidate list dated December 2020. In 2025, the successor to SubSelect will be published. Until then, no updates will be provided.