Mitsubishi Plastics Starts Eco-Labeling

Mitsubishi Plastics Inc. has established an environmental labelling system and indicates products carrying this label in the company catalog, to allow customers to identify the company's environmentally friendly products more easily. Mitsubishi Plastics is Japan's first industrial materials producer to establish an environmental label.The company established its own "Mitsubishi Plastics Standards for Environmentally Friendly Products" in fiscal 2001. The prime requirement of the standards is that such products should not contain 12 carcinogenic substances that are specified as "Class 1 designated chemical substances" in Japan's Pollutant Release and Transfer Register (PRTR) Law. The standards also include seven other requirements, such as resource and energy savings, the use of plant-derived substances, and high recyclability. To make the products meeting the standards more easier to recognize, the company adopted the ISO 14021 Type II environmental labeling method, which is based on self-declared environmental claims by companies on their products or services. Currently, 26 of the company's products have been given this label. One of the items, for example, is an easily-removeable cap for plastic bottles, which facilitates recycling.By utilizing environmental labeling, Mitsubishi Plastics intends to improve its existing products as well as to further promote research and development of new products.




Posted: 2003/09/27 11:51:50 AM
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