Since the last guide was published in 2018, international testing house Intertek has retired its ‘Green Leaf’ environmental marks for consumer goods including recycled content in favour of a ‘sustainability certification’ for goods that meet a certain range of criteria.
ISO 14001 is a world wide standard of an environmental management system that assists various types of industry organisations to improve their overall environmental performance.
BSI (the British Standards Institute) has launched ISO 20400:2017 Sustainable procurement – guidance. Designed to assist organisations to meet their sustainability responsibilities, ISO 20400 outlines what sustainable procurement is, and how an organisation can implement sustainable procurement practically.
Published in April 2019, this ISO standard relates to the screening of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in cotton and textiles.
IVN is one of four members of the International Working Group for the Global Organic Textiles Standard (GOTS), and also supplies its own standard – the ‘Naturtextil IVN Certified BEST’ – more commonly known as BEST.
LEED, whose name originates from the acronym for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, was launched in March 2000 by the US Green Building Council.
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