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Eco purchases and Carbon Footprint: environmental labeling




by Christophe » 07/02/11, 16:13

Some brands (crossroads or casino I think) have already done so on some of their products for the past few months, here is the experience of the carbon index will be extended to many other products and brands!

One step closer to a more eco-friendly society!
And for new cars, when is it (gray CO2)? : Cheesy:

Environmental labeling: the experience will start in July

The Minister of Ecology has just announced the launch of the experiment to display environmental characteristics on a certain number of products. It will begin next July, for a period of twelve months.

he results of a study on sustainable consumption reveal that 54% of French people are increasingly suspicious of the ecological arguments used by advertisers, while at the same time, 74% of them wish know the environmental impact of products. On the strength of this observation, the Ministry of Ecology launched the environmental labeling project.

The objective of the approach is to give a concrete tool to the consumer who wishes to make a "responsible" purchase. Thus, more than 230 companies have volunteered to display this display, in particular in food, textiles / clothing, furniture, construction and DIY products, maintenance, personal care, printing and publishing… Currently, a consultation phase is starting to clarify and finalize the companies' files: the final list will be known at the end of February.

Then, the experiment will begin on July 1, for a period of 12 months. During this year, the methods of setting up and determining the ecological cost of billboards will be tested, which must include the level of greenhouse gas emissions, as well as the impact on the most natural resources. relevant according to the products.


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by Christophe » 09/03/11, 19:51

Another article, with a "cash register":

A thousand products reveal their ecological impact

Environmental labeling will become a reality as of July 1st. The experience will last at least a year before its possible generalization.

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What resource, what pollution, what impact on biodiversity had to be made to make this product? Consumers will find the answers on the labels of over a thousand products, starting July 1. This was announced on Tuesday by Minister of Sustainable Development Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet at a press conference in Paris.

The principle of an environmental display of consumer products was launched during the Grenelle Environment Forum. The implementation of this project should have seen the light of day at the beginning of the year, the Grenelle II law making ecological display compulsory from January 1, 2011. Given the scope of the task and the difficulties of environmental traceability products, it is ultimately a simple "experiment", which will be conducted from July 1, announced the Minister.

After launching a call for projects, the Ministry of Ecology has selected 168 companies located in very diverse industrial sectors, as we find in this panel in addition to mass distribution companies, notably food, textile companies, electronics, or even furniture. About a thousand products will be affected, but the ecological information concerning them will not all take the same form. Some labels will indicate the weight of CO2 corresponding to their production, others their impact on biodiversity, others still the volume of water that had to be mobilized to achieve their production. The information of certain products will only be available on websites. Other companies have chosen to only display this information on the sales receipt. Finally, no display standard has yet been defined. This means that some labels will be less explicit than others or even less understandable by the general public. "We have noted that environmental labeling in the field of household appliances is an important purchasing criterion," admits Thierry Guibert de Conforama, one of the companies participating in the experiment.

Powerful lever

The latter "will last at least a year," said the minister, who does not hide her interest in this case. Just as "the energy label in household appliances or the CO2 label on vehicles have proven their effectiveness", environmental labeling should, through its pedagogy, allow citizens "to better direct their consumption". Better still, green signage "constitutes a powerful lever for transforming production systems and a factor of competitiveness for the industry," insists Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet.

While defending this project, the Minister conceals some realities. Certainly, the polls reveal a real appetite of the French for better information on products and in particular their environmental impact. But if the energy labels in the household appliances and those indicating the emissions of cars had a real impact, it is firstly because they were coupled for the first with less consuming devices which make it possible to save electricity, and for the latter with a self-incentive bonus-malus system.

Remy Janin


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by Christophe » 27/05/11, 19:51

The carbon index (in CO2 per 100 g of product) is indicated on a large number of Casino products!

I have some on hand, are you interested in some examples?

Please note the index is given in g per 100 g of product! It is explained in small ... So it can be quite misleading I do not know why it is not related to the total mass of the product.

For example, the L of fruit juice is marked "145 gr CO2" when in fact it is 1450 ...

The advantage is that it allows you to easily compare one product to another ...
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by Christophe » 09/11/11, 10:37

1st assessment:

Environmental labeling has been tested in France since July 1, 2011. Oddly enough, I hadn't talked about it on the site yet, and yet it's a significant step forward for responsible consumption.

I was probably waiting for a first transversal analysis of the various devices tested since, as you know, more than 150 companies are participating in the operation, in very diverse activity sectors (food, drink, hygiene products, clothing, equipment electrical or electronic, furniture, construction products ...).

This first analysis, here it is. It was carried out by the Ethicity agency and involves 43 experiments. It is crossed with the results of a survey on the French and sustainable development.

Here are the main results:

* The way of highlighting the impact (way of presenting, calculating, naming, communicating) conceals a richness rarely attained.
* Few experiments meet all the expectations of French people in terms of responsible communication.
* Immediate understanding of the impact is not always simple.
* The difficulty of comparing products of the same category with each other.
* Biodiversity: largely absent from the indicators.
* Low data certification.
* Little incentive for a responsible purchase.

And here is the conclusion of the authors of the study: "We are therefore at the beginning of a story to write, in a process of continuous improvement (especially with regard to the information delivered and the training of teams in contact with the client ). Several benefits are already emerging from this diversity: a real interest in the upstream approach with suppliers and a wide variety of consumer information approaches which enrich new fields in relationships and make the product even more supportive of brand engagement. "
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* » The Ethicity press release (PDF - 108.8 kb)

* » The presentation on 2011 consumer typology and environmental labeling (PDF - 3.2 MB)



Source: http://www.sircome.fr/Premier-retour-sur-l-affichage

Interesting consumer classification:

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by clasou » 09/11/11, 16:04

Hello christophe,
The alter eco company has been doing this for a while on the products it sells, with a lot of details on the cooperatives they work with and a lot more.
One example among others.


Did you know?

The legend of Kaldi: it's an animal that discovered coffee!
Around the year 800, a Muslim shepherd from Kaffa (hence the name coffee) in the South West of Addis Ababa is keeping his goats. One of them eats the leaves of a tree and starts to jump, all excited. Curious, the young Kaldi in turn tries to eat the leaves. Happy with his discovery, he shares it with religious who use it to stay awake for whole nights to pray. The coffee is discovered.


Ethiopia is a country of 77 million inhabitants which produces national wealth 6 times less than the fortune of Bill Gates (estimated at around 50 billion dollars)…




Identity record :
250g
Labels: Max Havelaar, AB
Ingredients: Ethiopian ground coffee 100% arabica from organic farming
EAN: 3700214610282
Indicative sales price: 3.49 €
Average nutritional value
for 100g
0.00g protein
Carbohydrates 0.00g
Fat 0.00g

good I copy the link faster than trying to copy their image with the beneficiaries and the price it touches
http://www.altereco.com/fr/nos-produits ... iopie.html
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by the middle » 09/11/11, 18:31

Well, it's better than nothing, but water consumption? for this product?
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by clasou » 10/11/11, 06:09

Hello middle-middle.
Well I do not know the water consumption, and I do not know all the site, so I do not know if it is calculated for certain product.

On the other hand, a point that I want to raise is to differentiate between the producers.
That is to say in this case, you may have trees that were there before what is currently taking care of them, and which are in their original environment, so do not require additional water supply.

If it were a question of making tomatoes in a greenhouse in the middle of the desert, I would not have the same opinion.
There was a report once on the corner where it rains the most a year. If I remember not far from 12m per m2, they grow rice, talking about consumption from my point of view is unjustified, on the other hand see that allying with eco alter,
For example, who will pay them a premium, so that he can do some improvements or other solutions to avoid the leaching of the ok lands.
Interesting may be the opinion of the one who launched the debate
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