Article: Sticking to the requirements of eco-labels

Despite the number of different schemes on offer, the industry is still rather slow to take up the ecolabel challenge

Eco-labels have been in circulation for over 20 years thanks to the pioneering efforts of the German Blue Angel scheme in the 1970s. Despite the early start made by the Germans, other countries were slower off the mark and the remaining eco-- label schemes date from the environmental explosion in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The aim of these schemes has been to ensure that products meet certain environmental standards and encourage improved environmental performance by manufacturers, but the success factor varies markedly between the different systems.

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