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The Rules were notified to support it successful enactment with existing sustainability and environmentally affable practices and with the Environment Ministry's Mission LIFE (Lifestyle for Environment), which promotes sustainable consumption. (File)
Recasting its flagship strategy connected labelling of eco-friendly products, the Union Environment Ministry notified the Ecomark Rules, 2024 Tuesday, astir a twelvemonth aft its draught rules were notified.
Launched successful 1991, it is simply a voluntary and non-binding strategy which promotes labelling of household and user products based connected the biology and prime parameters.
The Rules were notified to support it successful enactment with existing sustainability and environmentally affable practices and with the Environment Ministry’s Mission LIFE (Lifestyle for Environment), which promotes sustainable consumption.
The rules spell retired the conditions, procedure, verification process and compliance mechanics of the scheme. It besides contains a elaborate criteria that manufacturers request to travel for assistance of Ecomark.
The criteria includes, among others, conditions specified arsenic reducing contamination by minimising oregon eliminating procreation of discarded and biology emissions, utilizing recycled worldly oregon making recyclable products, reducing usage of contamination vigor sources and reducing usage of environmentally harmful materials.
“Today, determination is simply a batch of clarity connected what is the existent scope of what is environmentally-friendly successful presumption of emissions and waste. Consumers privation sustainable depletion and these rules volition assistance them marque an informed choice. It is besides a mode of nudging companies to follow sustainable practices,” said Leena Nandan, Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change Secretary.
As portion of the Ecomark Rules, the notification has besides spelt retired a elaborate criteria for 17 categories of products ranging from paints, cosmetics, batteries, edible oils, tea, coffee, toilet soaps to coir and paper.
Products from these categories besides request certification from the Bureau of Indian Standards, compliance with contamination norms and conscionable different circumstantial class related criteria.
Under the voluntary scheme, companies tin use for Ecomark for a merchandise with the Central Pollution Control Board, which volition past entrust the enactment of verifying Ecomark labelling applications to registered agencies that are experienced and qualified successful the tract of situation and matters related to labelling.
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