EcoLogo and Sustainable Toys
Yes, you heard right. The EcoLogo Program recently announced that it has officially kicked off its first environmental standard for toys. By developing this standard for children’s products, the EcoLogo Program is making it easier for adults looking to buy “greener” products for the children in their lives.
As part of this initiation process, the EcoLogo Program is reaching out to interested individuals and companies who want to participate in a process that will help to reduce the environmental and human health impacts of children’s toys. Anyone is able to participate in the standard development process, including concerned individuals such as parents and grandparents, toy manufacturers, retailers, government agencies, and non-profit advocacy groups. After the standard is finalized, any manufacturer that demonstrates compliance with this new standard is eligible for EcoLogo certification.
This standard development process is supported by Dr. Sally Edwards, director of the Sustainable Children’s Products Initiative at the Lowell Center for Sustainable Production (University of Massachusetts, Lowell) and staff at the University of Tennessee Center for Clean Products, who are leaders in the development of environmental product and material standards.
Anyone interested in helping to develop or review the EcoLogo green toy standard should email Katherine Stewart at: kstewart@ecologo.org, or call: (613) 247-1900 ext. 231.
Let the fun begin!