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Ecolabels and Green Stickers are labelling systems
for food and consumer products.
Ecolabels are often voluntary, but Green Stickers
are mandated by law in North America for major
appliances and automobiles.
They are a form of sustainability
measurement directed at consumers, intended to
make it easy to take environmental concerns into
account when shopping.
Some labels quantify pollution or energy
consumption by way of index scores or units of
measurement; others simply assert compliance with
a set of practices or minimum requirements for
sustainability or reduction of harm to the
environment. Usually both the precautionary
principle and the substitution principle are used
when defining the rules for what products can be
ecolabelled.
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One of the basic ideas behind the development of
the EU Eco-label also may be consistent across all
the EU is to provide information.
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