ISO Updates Guide to Greening Product Standards

Published November 05, 2008

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The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) has updated its 11-year-old guide for addressing environmental issues in product standards.

ISO Guide 64:2008, intended for product standard drafters, encourages drafters to understand environmental aspects and impacts related to products, and to determine which impacts can be addressed within product standards.

The guide recommends carrying out a lifecycle evaluation of a product early on in the standard development, whether it's a new standard or a revision, in order to determine how it can be altered to reduce negative impacts.

Included in the guide is an environmental checklist to help standards drafters assess environmental issues, based on what lifecycle information they are able to procure about the products they are working with.

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