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Businesses can
contribute to a more sustainable planet by purchasing goods and services
that cause less stress on the environment. However over the last two
decades, an increasing number of environmental labels have not always
communicated verifiable and accurate information about their products.
In order to address
this problem, ISO has published ISO 14025:2006, Environmental
labels and declarations – Type III environmental declarations –
Principles and procedures, which will benefit business to
business communication, by enabling purchasers to make comparisons
between products fulfilling the same function, and encourage improvement
of environmental performance.
"ISO 14025
is expected to play a role in national and regional eco-label
programmes, such as the European Union Integrated Product Policy and
provides benchmarks to further develop environment product
declarations (EPD). It will also serve as a building block and enable
all-sized businesses to construct EPD information modules providing life
cycle information ", said Stig Hirsbak, convenor of the working
group that developed the standard.
ISO 14025 Type III
environmental declarations provide quantified environmental information
about products, using predetermined parameters based on the ISO
life-cycle assessment series of standards. Additional environmental
information, such as the impact on biodiversity, instructions and limits
for efficient use, or hazard and risk assessment on human health and the
environment, among others, is given where relevant.
