March 24, 2010—Significant progress has been made in recent months in the development of a next-generation environmental labeling for the commercial cleaning industry, according to Jack Geibig, president of Ecoform, a company collaborating with cleaning industry trade association ISSA and numerous other stakeholders in the creation of this label.
The Information-Based Environmental Label (IBEL) will complement existing eco-label programs, such as those for chemical cleaners, and will also provide a uniform platform for communicating the environmental attributes for the hundreds of product categories for which eco-label programs do not exist, says Ecoform.
Metrics have been developed for the following environmental attributes of chemical cleaners: fragrances, color and dyes, combustibility, post-consumer packaging content, recyclable packaging content and bio-based material content.
In addition, Ecoform has launched a page on its Web site dedicated to the IBEL development process. The IBEL Development page is open to anyone and will be updated frequently, says the company.
