What is an Environmental Product Declaration? And What is it Good For?
February 21, 2012 3 CommentsWhen talking about product labels that deal with the environment, it is often argued that there is an excessive variety of labels swamping consumers with information they don't understand. I have to admit that you can indeed call them irritating, this vast number of redundant "eco labels" invented by creative marketing departments all around the globe. However, in contrast to the superficial infor...
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What's What: Understanding the ISO 14000 Family Of Standards
September 13, 2011 5 CommentsBack in the year 1987, the International Organization for Standardization introduced a number of norms known as the ISO 9000 series. For the first time, there were internationally recognized quality management standards. The approach to these standards was voluntary. If you wanted the ISO 9000 certificate, you could obtain it by a third party. These quality management norms were later followed by various environmental standards that originated in the 1992 Rio conference, known as ISO 14000. As well as ISO 9000, ISO 14000 require an external verification by a third party, which is neither the o...
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