by jbs091809 h3 — September 21, 2009—UL Environment, Inc. (ULE), a global provider of environmental evaluation and certification, recently announced that it is leading a collaborative effort to develop sustainability standards for the green marketplace based on an analysis of environmental impacts over a product’s entire lifecycle. ULE launched comprehensive environmental claims validation and certification services in January 2009.
The program will initially develop standards for doors and wallboard, including mineral board, fiberboard, door frames, and associated hardware such as hinges, locks, and handles. These standards are the first in a series of sustainability standards to be developed across a wide variety of industries.
Properly developed sustainability standards establish the basis for differentiating environmentally superior products and services, allowing businesses and consumers to make environmentally preferable choices more easily, notes ULE. These standards will set minimum environmental requirements and create a progressive and tiered approach allowing sustainability leaders to highlight their achievements.
The new sustainability standards will be designed for the ANSI process and draw on input from UL Environment Standard Technical Panels (STPs) comprised of stakeholders such as manufacturers, government entities, consumer interest groups, product installers, users, distributors, and testing organizations.
ULE is launching this initiative with the full support and expertise of the Underwriters Laboratories (UL) standards development organization, which has been developing standards for more than a century and is actively maintaining more than 1,000 safety standards globally.
