Why is Eco Label Needed?

Despite the best intentions of a manufacturer or seller, not all claims that a product are greener may be meaningful or true. The criteria that make a product greener are complex and need to be independently audited. 

Products can have a wide range of adverse effects on human health and the environment, including exposure to toxic and hazardous chemicals, air pollution, water pollution, climate change, stratospheric ozone depletion, and waste disposal.

It is important to consider human health and environmental impacts throughout a product's entire life cycle through:

• Raw material supply
• Production
• handling
• Transportation
• Distribution
• Retail
• Use of the product
• Product management when it is no longer needed - reuse, repair or safe recycling

For these and similar reasons, when you shop, use products in an environmentally friendly way and want to search for more environmentally friendly products, you need eco label programs to easily choose green products.

Eco label programs include environmentally friendly use of products, saving energy, water and materials, as well as disposing of products responsibly through recycling and reuse.