Simple Eco-Labelling – a Start for Sustainability

eco labels from Foundation Earth

Keep an eye out for products using eco-labelling from Foundation Earth, using a simple green-to-red scale design and a grading from A+ to G. If it’s A+, it has scored highly in the audit with a low carbon footprint, low water usage, the resultant pollution too, and lastly having minimum impact on biodiversity (the buzzword meaning all affected animal and plant species are still happy).

Apparently they have backing from several major supermarkets, so this might gain traction. Here’s an example:

eco-labelling

Links on Eco-Labelling

Here’s the run-down and list of supporting suppliers at Foundation Earth.

It’s not just supermarkets that are involved – organic veggie boxers Abel & Cole are starting to use it too.

Read how eco-labelling and particularly carbon footprint labelling is something EcoCounts advocates.

By Adam Hardy

Zoologist at heart. Environmentalist by necessity. Stage hand, financial trader, secretary, card payments designer, software developer, fossil fuel big data warehouse consultant. Amateur psychologist. Now climate change salvage engineer.