EU Ecolabel

ISO Type I Environmental Labelhng Most of the eco-labelling schemes can be included in this type. This programme is a voluntary, multiple criteria-based, third-party programme. It awards a license for a product type considering the whole life cycle of this product category. Blue Angel, EU Ecolabel and Nordic Swan can be included in this class. 

The EU Ecolabel includes a wide range of product groups, from manufacturing to tourist accommodation services. There are key experts who develop the criteria for each product group to lower the environmental impacts over the entire life cycle, and every four years these criteria are revised. Revision is needed to consider revised... 

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EnvirOTimental trends are having an impact on electrical applications. Waste legislation includes WEEE (Waste of Electrical and Electronic Equipment) directive 2002/%/EC which holds producers responsible for collection and recovery of materials at end of Ufe. Additionally, materials that contain bromine-based flame retardants must be removed from the waste and handled separately. In restrictions on use of hazardous substances (ROHS) directive 2002/95/EC, the use of various hazardous materials is restricted. These include lead, mercury, cadmium, hexavalent chromium, polybrominated biphenyls, and polybrominated diphenyl ether. Since the introduction of Blue Angel in Germany in 1978, several other eco-labels have been implemented. These include TCO (Sweden), Nordic Swan, Milieukeur (Netherlands), and the EU Ecolabel. The general purpose of these labels is to provide cmisumers with information relating to the environmental impact of the products they purchase. 

As an example, life cycle thinking and assessment stand at the heart of a growing number of policies and instruments in areas such as Integrated Product Policy, the Sustainable Consumption and Production and Sustainable Industrial Policy Action Plan, Green Public Procurement, and the European Union (EU) Ecolabel and Ecodesign [3]. 

Type I (ISO 14024) are environmental labelling programmes [4] which award their label to products meeting a set of predetermined requirements (e.g., the EU Ecolabel [5]). 

The EU Ecolabel, European Commission. http //ec.europa.eu/environment/ecolabel/... 

EPA (2014), Wastes—Resource Conservation—Common Wastes Materials, http //www.epa.gov/osw/ conserve/materials/textiles.htm, accessed Sept 12, 2014 EU (2013), website of the EU Ecolabel http //www.ecolabel.eu, accessed on Oct 22, 2013 Gesamttextil (Ed.) (2001), Lebenslauf von Textilien," Eschborn, Germany Gesamtverband Textil+Mode (2013), Jahrbuch 2012/2013," Erankfurt, Germany... 

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Eco-label http //europa.eu.int/comm/environment/ecolabel... 

So far, relatively few products have received an EU eco-label award. This may be due to the fact that there are aheady numerous national, international, and independent schemes in place. One of the earliest eco-labeling schemes was the Blue Angel, introduced in Germany in 1977. The Nordic Countries (Sweden, Finland, Norway, Denmark and Iceland) have been particularly active with several ecolabels in operation (e.g., the Nordic or White Swan). Within the European textile industry the Okotex label is widely promoted by the textile retailers. 

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