Good Environmental Choice Australia

The Australian "Good Environmental Choice" program, launched in November 2001, provides to the community an environmental mark of recognition for a wide range of products and services.  The benefits of an independent environmental label is that all Australians can easily recognise products which are sensitive to environmental pressures. The Australian Ecolabel Program has been developed for general compliance to ISO 14 024 and is managed by a not-for-profit organisation utilising a national network of registered assessors. The program awards a mark of recognition for products and services that meet standards of environmental, quality and social performance.

The voluntary Australian Environmental Labelling Standards developed by Good Environmental Choice Australia Ltd (GECA) are designed to give manufacturers, distributors, and marketers the financial benefits of dealing in and producing environmentally preferable products. The association develops scientifically recognised benchmarks for the environmental performance of products and services throughout the market. A product's or service's performance against these benchmarks will determine whether it is awarded the Australian "Good Environmental Choice" ecolabel.

What Standards does Good Environmental Choice Australia cover?

The Australian Ecolabel Program provided by Good Environmental Choice Australia Ltd (GECA) utilises standards of environmental performance for different product sectors to verify product compliance for the ecolabel. The standards are developed using a public procedure as outlined on the Standards Development Page. These standards form the basis of assessment of environmental performance and are available on the Standards Register Pages. 

The voluntary environmental labelling standards are developed and approved by the Standards Development Committee and Board of Directors of Good Environmental Choice Australia (GECA) Ltd after a widespread consultation process. These standards specify the core environmental performance benchmarks against which products and services are assessed in order to receive the Good Environmental Choice Australia Mark.

NCS International feels that in the contemporary Australian market, it is important to demonstrate to the consumer that businesses are socially and environmentally responsible for their effect on the environment. Together with GECA, we feel that these standards provide a very valuable service to the community and environmentally responsible manufacturers. GECA’s focus is to extract as much benefit for these producers as possible and to have their product used in the market ahead of the competition which show a lack of environmental responsibility.

How Can NCS International help you with Certification?

NCS International can assist you with all your certification needs in relation to the Good Environmental Choice Australia standards.

If you are already in business and have been exposed to the environmental challenges in the market you will be surprised as to how easily ecolabel allows for environmental benefits to create financial prosperity. If you are new to this area you will find out how showing environmental performance has some of the strongest rewards available for any business.

For any more information on these standards visit the Good Environmental Choice Australia website.

For more information, and to find out how we can help, please email us on info@ncsi.com.au, or call on 1300 856 554.  Alternatively, for an estimate of costs of certification, please click on 'Request A Quote'.

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