Ekolabeling as Development Facilitator of the Environmentally Oriented Product Policy

Abstract

Products available on the market should be healthiness and should not threaten human life and the overall safety of the consumer and does not pollute the environment. This means that security specifications and standards have to exist and to be adopted by each country for any product. Consumers must be protected from any damage that could be caused by the product. Fundamental right of every consumer should be the availability of necessary information to protect their own health and safety. Systems of environmental evaluation and labelling are implemented, which claim that the product (in concordance with the recent knowledge) process parameters minimizing or eliminating its negative environmental impacts. Product labelling is an option to reduce the risk and provide some form of assurance that products are safe. This paper discuses the present state and perspectives of ecolabeling lined from research hypothesis based on the results of a study from surveys oriented to interest of customers for buying environmental suitable products.

A Sustainability Index for the Evaluation of Machining Operations

“…The introduction of environmentally friendly practices in manufacturing plants is an important challenge that the industry has recently faced; environmental innovation has been managed to improve performance and sustainability indicators (Aguado et al, 2013) and the control of process parameters allows for significant reductions in terms of energy and CO 2 emissions . This is extensive to processes, products (Kralikova et al, 2017) and projects (Majstorovic et al, 2016). Some models or indexes have been developed integrating sustainability and efficiency, integrating general and specific criteria to achieve a green production (Tsai et al, 2015), or as Rehar et al (2017) that study the influence of the parameters on the product lifecycle or considering the level of manufacturing facility (Domingo & Aguado, 2015), but it recommendable to set indexes that allow taking account the particular characteristics of each manufacturing process as the machining.…”