EcoLogo

Founded in 1988 and now recognized world-wide, EcoLogo is North America’s largest environmental standard and certification mark. EcoLogo provides customers – public, corporate and consumer – with assurance that the products and services bearing the logo meet stringent standards of environmental leadership. EcoLogo certifies environmental leaders covering a large variety of categories, helping you find and trust the world’s most sustainable products.

The EcoLogo Program is a Type I eco-label, as defined by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). This means that the Program compares products/services with others in the same category, develops rigorous and scientifically relevant criteria that reflect the entire lifecycle of the product, and awards the EcoLogo to those that are verified by an independent third party as complying with the criteria.

The EcoLogo Program is one of two such programs in North America that has been successfully audited by the Global EcoLabelling Network (GEN) as meeting ISO 14024 standards for eco-labelling.

EcoLogo is part of the TerraChoice group of families, and is part of the UL Global Network. For more information please see www.terrachoice.com or www.ul.com

Learn more: EcoLogo website

Conformity assessment | How is compliance with this ecolabel's standard ensured?

Conformity with EcoLogo's standard is verified by an independent organization (third party) following ISO 17011 Accreditation, ISO 17021 Management system certification, ISO 17025 Testing and Calibration Laboratories, ISO 19011 QMS and EMS auditing (and auditor qualifications), ISO / IEC Guide 65 Product Certification, Other

Certification / registration required

Applicants are certified against the ecolabels’s criteria before using the label

Managing organization | Who manages this ecolabel?

Name

TerraChoice Environmental Marketing Inc

Member of

GEN, ISO

Type

Hybrid / social venture

Also manages

None.

Organization type: 28057

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Ecolabel details | What are the characteristics of the standard(s) related to this ecolabel?

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Ecolabel development | How were the standards for this ecolabel developed?

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Conformity Assessment | How is compliance with this ecolabel's standard ensured?

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Managing organization | Who manages this ecolabel?