Ecolabelled cleaning products
Baseline strategy · No scoreSelect detergents and cleaners with a verifiable ecolabel to reduce the chemical load on water and exposure of the cleaner.
How it works
Select detergents and cleaners with a verifiable ecolabel to reduce the chemical load on water and exposure of the cleaner.
It considers materials and components throughout extraction, manufacture, transport, use, maintenance and recovery to conserve value and reduce impacts.
When does it make sense?
- Before you specify or purchase materials and products
- Where functionally comparable alternatives exist
- With life cycle data and a realistic maintenance and end-of-use plan
How to apply it
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Defining what needs resolves "ecolabel cleaning products" and establishing a starting situation.
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Compare alternatives and adapt design to climate, use, regulation, affected people and available resources.
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Apply with clear responsibilities, check the actual result and correct unwanted effects.
Potential benefits
Lower carbon life cycle
Less extraction and toxicity
More retained value
Limitations and precautions
- An eco-label establishes specific criteria, not that the product is safe or that the dose used is adequate.
- An isolated label does not replace the comparison of the entire system.
- Durability, security, quantity used and end-of-life scenario can change the result.
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