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What's Happening from Environmental Building News
May 1, 2007
Home Depot Rolls Out Green Labeling
The building-products retailing giant Home Depot launched a labeling initiative in April 2007, called EcoOptions, to identity environmentally preferable products in all of its U.S. stores. The program identifies more than 2,500 products as having better environmental performance than other products in their class. Large signs in store aisles point the way to these products, which are marked with tags describing their environmental benefits in one of five categories: sustainable forestry, energy efficiency, healthy home, clean air, and water conservation. To qualify for the EcoOptions label, a product must meet recognized labeling standards, such as by those Energy Star or the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC), or it must go through an examination of its environmental claims by Scientific Certification Systems (SCS)....
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