Book Industry Environmental Council to Launch Eco-Labeling Program
Book Business Extra: What does the eco-labeling program entail?
Todd Pollak: The eco-label is being developed by BIEC, which is a group of about 40 industry stakeholders, including publishers, printers, paper manufacturers, retailers and environmental organizations. BIEC's eco-label takes a holistic approach to evaluating a publisher's environmental performance across five broad categories. The certification uses a scorecard, which awards points to publishers for using environmentally responsible paper, decreasing paper consumption and waste, reducing greenhouse gas emissions, minimizing the use of toxic compounds, and having strong and transparent environmental policies.
There are three tiers of certification that will be awarded, each requiring an increasing number of points from the scorecard. In addition to meeting minimum points requirements for each tier of certification, publishers will have to meet a set of criteria to verify that the paper they're using isn't resulting in damage to endangered forests.
- Companies:
- Green Press Initiative
- People:
- Todd Pollak