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What's Happening from Environmental Building News
June 1, 2009
Green Standard Registers First Environmental Product Declaration
Environmental product declarations (EPDs), widely used in Japan and the European Union, have been likened to nutrition labels, putting product information about life-cycle impacts, health concerns, and recycled content in a standardized, accessible format. They have yet to gain much traction in North America, but The Green Standard, a nonprofit organization formed to administer EPDs in compliance with ISO 14025, which governs the documents, has announced that it has registered its first EPD, for InterfaceFLOR’s Convert carpet products. (As of this writing, InterfaceFLOR’s EPD was not available for review.)...
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