ATS: 511

SUSTAINABILITY IN TEXTILE
AND APPAREL INDUSTRY

Topic:
Certified Agencies Imparting Eco label

Presented by,
Bhawna Sharma
 CONTENT

• Ecolabel

• International Agencies Imparting Eco label

• National Agencies Imparting Eco label

 Certified Agencies Imparting
Eco-labels

Organization: Umweltbundesamt,
Germany
Label: Blue Angel

Organization: Swedish Society for

Nature Conservation, Sweden
Label: Miljoval Sweden Falcon
(Mark)
 Certified Agencies Imparting
Eco label
Organization: Coop Natureline,
Switzerland
Label: Coop natureline

Organization: Asociacion Espanola de

Normalizacion Y Certificacion (AENOR)
Label: AENOR Spain
 Certified Agencies Imparting
Eco label

Organizations: Institute for Applied

Ecology
Label: Eco tex Germany

Organization: Navotex A/s Blast,

Denmark
Label: Green cotton
 Certified Agencies Imparting
Eco label

Organization: Association
Francaise de Normalization
(AFNOR), France
Label: NF Environment

Organization: Korean Government

Label: Cleaner and Greener South
Korea
 Certified Agencies Imparting
Eco label

Organization: Ministry of
Environment and Forest , India
Label: Ecomark

Organization: Japan
Environmental Association
Label: Ecomark Japan
 Certified Agencies Imparting
Eco label

Organization: Terra Choice

Environmental Services, Canada
Label: Environmental Choice,
Canada

Organization: Environmental
Choice, New Zealand
Label: Environmental Choice New
Zealand
 Certified Agencies Imparting
Eco label

Organization:Ecolabelling
Organisations, Canada
Label: Global Labelling Network

Organization: Green Council,

Hong Kong
Label: Green Label
 Certified Agencies Imparting
Eco label

Organization: Ministry of
Environment, Israel
Label: Green label

Organization: Government of
Singapur
Label: Green label
 Certified Agencies Imparting
Eco label

Organization: Thailand Business

Council for Sustainable
Development ( TBCSD), Thailand
Label: Green label

Organization: Green Seal (USA)

Label: Green seal
 BMP Certified Cotton

• BMP is the Australian cotton

industry’s guide for growing cotton
in harmony with our natural
environment.
• The Australian BMP Cotton
trademark is a consumer guarantee
that the branded textile product
they are buying is made of
Australian cotton grown under Best
Management Practices by growers
who care for our environment.
 Better Cotton Initiative

The Better Cotton Initiative

(BCI) promotes a
comprehensive set of
production principles and
criteria for growing cotton in a
more sustainable manner:
socially, environmentally and
economically.
 Carbon Reduction Label

The Carbon Reduction Label is a

public commitment that the
carbon footprint of a product or
service has been measured and
certified and the owner of the
product or service has
committed to reduce that
footprint over the following two
years.
 Climatop

• The aim of climatop is to

label the most climate
friendly products and
services (best-in-class).

• Products that cause CO2

emissions that are
generally 20% lower,
receive the label.
 Degree of Green®

• The Degree of Green® rating

program aims at helping
consumers by rating products
and explaining those ratings in
clear language.

• At the core of Degree of Green®

are data sheets that detail the
environmental, health and
sustainability attributes of
various products.
 Eco-Leaf

The eco-leaf is an
environmental product
declaration based on a life
cycle analysis consisting of
three parts:
• A product environmental
aspects declaration;
• A product environmental
information data sheet;
• The product data sheet.
 Ecocert
• Ecocert is a certification body
for sustainable development.

• It is an inspection and
certification body established in
France by agronomists aware of
the need to develop
environmentally friendly
agriculture and of the
importance of offering some
form of recognition to those
committed to this method of
production.
 Fair Trade Certified

• Fair Trade is a market-based approach to

alleviating poverty in ways that improve
lives and protect the environment.

• It's also a mechanism for consumers to

know that their products were grown with
care, and that farmers and workers were
paid better prices and wages, work in safe
conditions, protect the environment, and
earn community development premiums
to empower and improve their
communities.
 Good Weave
• GoodWeave is working to end child
labor in the carpet industry and to
offer educational opportunities to
children in South Asia.

• Through its monitoring and

inspections program, GoodWeave is
helping to combat the problem of
exploitative child labor and to
transform the handmade rug industry
by certifying child-labor-free rugs and
providing education and opportunities
to rescue at-risk children.
 Cradle to Cradle Certified Products
Program

• The Cradle to Cradle Certified(CM)

Products Program provides a company
with a means to demonstrate efforts
in eco-intelligent design.
• Cradle to Cradle Certification is a
third-party sustainability label that
requires achievement across multiple
attributes.
• Use materials that are safe for human
health and the environment through
all use phases
Thank you!