UL Environmental Claim Validation

Underwriters Laboratory (UL)'s Environmental Claims Validation (ECV) service and label, tests a manufacturer’s product and validates that the environmental claims they make in their marketing and packaging materials are factual.

Claims validated include: recycled content, recyclability, degradability, compostability, rapidly renewable materials, regional materials, volatile organic compounds (VOCs) content, energy efficiency, energy audits, water efficiency, hazardous or toxic substances, reclamation, mold resistance,

Manufacturers then may use the Environmental Claims Validated logo on marketing materials and packaging.

Once the product claims have been validated, details are posted on UL Environment’s Database of Validated and Certified Products, an online tool that allows users to identify sustainable products by product category, company name, product name or type of claim.

Learn more: UL Environmental Claim Validation website

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

Conformity with UL Environmental Claim Validation's standard is verified by an independent organization (third party) following ISO 17025 Testing and Calibration Laboratories, ISO / IEC Guide 65 Product Certification

Certification / registration required

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

Managing organization | Who manages this ecolabel?

Name

Ul Environment

Member of

ISO

Type

Non-profit

Also manages

None.

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