What is Environmental Label?

The environmental label is a symbol showing voluntary environmental performance certificate aiming to provide correct, not-misleading and scientific information to consumers as well as promote products and services having low environmental impact in periods ranging from raw material to disposal of a product/service. 

Objective of Environmental Label

The main purpose of the Environmental Labelling scheme is to support sustainable production and consumption patterns by encouraging organizations, which have been carrying out their operations in a sensitive manner to the environment. The Eco Label considers areas such as low carbon emission, waste prevention, energy efficiency, water-saving, the use of non-hazardous chemicals.

Advantages of Environmental Label

The benefits of the environmental labelling for both consumers and producers can be summarized as follows;
-Informing consumers on sustainability  and raising their environmental awareness 
-Preserving environmental values and promoting economic productivity.
-Self-adjusting according to the markets considering environmental sensitivity.    
-Promoting producers to enhance their production processes and service quality in view of current situation in the markets. 
-Offering consumers a chance to prefer eco-sensitive products. 

Basic Principles

Main Principles that guide Turkish Environment Label System are as follows; 

-Energy Efficiency
-Reducing the effects on climate change. 
-Heat saving
-Water saving
-Natural Resource Management
-Preserving Human Health
-Restricting the use of hazardous chemicals
-Waste water re-use,
-Recycling 
-Safeguarding Bio-Diversity
-Durability,
-Transparency in environmental information,

The relevant product group environmental label criteria can be accessed from the Product/Service Criteria online link.