Environment
Environmental impacts of products
Every product has an impact on the environment during all stages of its life-cycle, from extraction of resources to end-of-life treatment and the need to reduce the potential adverse impact on the environment of a product is recognized around the world.
ISO Guide 64:2008 Guide for addressing environmental issues in product standards, proposes a step-by-step approach, based on the principle of life-cycle analysis, in order to promote a reduction of potential adverse environmental impacts caused by products.
The Guide is intended for use by all those involved in the drafting of product standards, encouraging them to:
- Identify and understand basic environmental aspects and impacts related to the product under consideration,
- Determine when it is possible and when it is not possible to deal with an environmental issue through a product standard.
Plastic recycling
The emerging market for plastic recovery and recycling is worldwide. Plastic products are traded internationally and many of the plastic resin manufacturing companies and industrial users are multinational companies.
ISO 15270:2008, Plastics – Guidelines for the recovery and recycling of plastics waste, establishes the different options for the recovery of plastics waste arising from pre-consumer and post-consumer sources. The standard assists in the selection of methodologies and processes for the management of post-use plastics that may be approached using various strategies.
Plastics material for recovery may be obtained from various sources and the major markets for plastics are packaging, building and construction products, electrical and electronic products, automotive/transportation, and household/consumer items.
The standard has been developed to assist all plastics industry stakeholders in the development of:
- A sustainable global infrastructure for plastics recovery and recycling
- A sustainable market for recovered plastics materials and their derived manufactured products.
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