SCS claim that Recycled Content Standard certification helps companies:
- Demonstrate leadership in reducing reliance on natural resources
- Satisfy purchase requirements and customer specifications
- Meet regulatory requirements
- Meet consumer demand
- Differentiate products
Proposed new rules from the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), an independent US government agency, aim to mandate listed companies to reveal audited information on their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and any climate risks likely to have a “material impact” on their business.
Superior Energy Performance is a certification program from the U.S. Council for Energy-Efficient Manufacturing that provides industrial facilities with a roadmap for achieving continual improvement in energy efficiency while maintaining competitiveness.
The Sustainable Fibre Program (SFP) claims to look heavily at local and regional concepts of sustainability, in line with the global definition of social, economic and environmental concepts. It takes the best of organic agricultural and husbandry processes and translates them into more widely achievable and sustainable practices, with the rigidity of maintaining a conversion period – a well-known concept in organic certification schemes.
The Sustainable Packaging Coalition (SPC) is an industry working group dedicated to a more robust environmental vision for packaging. Through member support, an informed and science-based approach, supply chain collaborations and continuous outreach, the group aims to build packaging systems that encourage economic prosperity and a sustainable flow of materials.
The Green Mark Program was launched in 1992 by Taiwan’s Environmental Protection Administration as a voluntary eco-labelling program and published its latest revision in December 2013.
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