Productwi$e Label

Objective

The Productwi$e Label is a recognition scheme established to recognize efforts and honour successes in reducing environmental impact arising across products’ life-cycle; and promote product with less environmental impacts that are available in Hong Kong market.


Criteria

Class of Good
  • Contributed and achieved improvements in at least 2 out of 6 product life-cycle stages compared to competing products/previous generation products of similar purpose and/or functions.
Class of Excellence
  • Contributed and achieved improvements in at least 4 out of 6 product life-cycle stages when comparing to competing products/previous generation products of similar purpose and/or functions.
Product Life-cycle stages
  • materials/components;
     
  • manufacturing process;
     
  • product packaging;
     
  • transportation;
     
  • product use; and
     
  • end-of-life.


Participation Status

As of 31 March 2010, 89 participants have nominated their products to the Productwi$e Label Scheme. The products cover machinery, plastic, cosmetic, washing and lubricating products, printed matter, glass and glassware, building material, food, textile, furniture, musical instruments, etc.

Categories
No. of entries
Apparel and clothing accessories
1
Carpets and other textile floor coverings
1
Cereal, starch and milk products
4
Electrical machinery and equipment and parts
12
Furniture: bedding, mattresses, mattress supports, cushions and similar stuffed furnishings; lamps and lighting fittings, not elsewhere specified or included; illuminated signs, illuminated name-plates and the like; prefabricated buildings
13
Glass and glassware
3
Machinery and mechanical appliances and parts
10
Modified starch, glue and enzyme
1
Musical instruments and parts
1
Paper and paperboard products
2
Perfumery, cosmetic or toilet preparations
4
Plastic and related products
5
Printed books, newspaper, pictures and other products of printing industry
4
Recovered paper and paperboard or pulp of wood or other fibrous cellulosic material
12
Silk
1
Stone, plaster, cement, mica made products
3
Vehicles other than railway or tramway rolling-stock
1
Washing and lubricating products
9
Miscellaneous manufactured products
2
Total
89


Productwi$e Label Awardees

As of 31 March 2010, the cumulative numbers of "Class of Good” Productwi$e Label and “Class of Excellence” Productwi$e Label Awardees are 10 and 5 respectively, resulting in a total of 40 improvements across the six life cycle stages.

Stages of Product Life Cycle
No. of Improvement
Materials / Components
11
Manufacturing Process
9
Product Packaging
4
Transportation
2
Product use
7
End-of-life
7
Total
40

Productwi$e Label Awardees (As of 30 June 2010)

 

Guidelines for the Use of Labels

Guidelines for the Use of Productwi$e Label


 
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