The use of LCA to develop eco-label criteria for hard floor coverings on behalf of the european flower |
| |
Authors: | Email author" target="_blank">Gian?Luca?BaldoEmail author Sara?Rollino Gerhard?Stimmeder Maurizio?Fieschi |
| |
Institution: | (1) Life Cycle Engineering, Via Livorno, 60, I-10144 Torino, Italy;(2) Austrian Ministry of Environment, Unit V/8, Stubenbastei 5, A-1010 Wien, Austria;(3) Macroscopio, Via Solferino 2, I-40026 Imola, Italy |
| |
Abstract: | Thorough environmental observation and a series of life cycle consideration have been performed to underpin the development
of the environmental criteria of a new EU Eco-label product group following the voluntary and selective European Environmental
Award Scheme based on Regulation EC 1980/ 2000. Since April 2002, the European Eco-label is available for the Hard Floor Coverings
product group, subsequently also called ‘HFC’. The Eco-label translates environmental awareness on products for indoor and
outdoor covering materials such as ceramic and clay tiles, concrete paving units, terrazzo, agglomerated and natural stones
into a new market-based environmental policy tool. As a matter of fact, the HFC ecological criteria development has been positively
concluded based on a the study of the Italian National Environment Protection Agency (ANPA, Agenzia Nazionale per la Protezione
dell’Ambiente) with the technical support of Life Cycle Engineering (Turin, Italy), that had been entrusted with this task
by the European Commission, DG Environment. The stakeholders involved in the ‘Ad Hoc Working Group’ activities included European
Eco-label Competent Bodies, some of the most important manufacturers, consumers and environmental associations at a European
level. In December 2001, after eighteen months of concerted work with all the interested parties in the European Union Eco-label
Board (EUEB), the final vote of criteria by Member States enabled the publication of the EU-wide valid criteria and the elaboration
of an application pack (user manual) in late March 2002. |
| |
Keywords: | Building materials EU eco-label green procurement hard floor coverings integrated product policy |
本文献已被 SpringerLink 等数据库收录! |
|