Ecolabel Guide

What is Ecolabel Guide?

Ecolabel Guide is developed to assist shoppers make sustainable choice of merchandise based on the information that stands behind the label and to acknowledge ecolabels from another labels.

The app contains database of the most well-liked “eco”, “organic” and different environmental and social labels one can discover on the products throughout the globe. The recognition device allows to take a photograph of the label on the product’s bundle and instantly answers the questions:

Can I belief this label?

What does it say concerning the product?

Where else can I find this label?

To simplify the process, the environmental labels are categorized into teams in accordance with the scope of criteria they cowl and whether or not or not the impartial evaluation occurred before the label was positioned on the package. See more at Methodology.

Why Ecolabel Guide?

Every time we go shopping, we are able to see that many meals and non-meals merchandise are claimed to be “green”, ‘eco-friendly” or “organic”, and have labels that look very very similar to ecolabels. According to the EU consumer market research of 2014, 70 % of the non-food merchandise assessed have a number of specific environmental claims.

In different areas, the regulations on green claims differ – a few of them are extra rigorous, others go away a lot house for unverified self-declarations. This led to the increasing usage of unverified inexperienced claims with no substantial evidence, which got the title of “greenwashing”. To cope with this downside, widespread rules on environmental certification have been creating in the world for the final 20 years, such as the ISO 14020 series or international natural rules.

In the Ecolabel Guide app, we've put the world apply of environmental certification in different fields into a simple tool, which can empower shopper to choose sustainable products and concentrate on “greenwashing”.

How can I contribute?

Ecolabel Guide