UK Environmental Product Information Consortium

Key element of the Government’s market transformation policy is to ensure the availability and accessibility of information on the environmental performance of consumer products and traded goods.
This is because information on environmental performance underpins most major policy measures, including mandatory labelling, minimum standards, voluntary agreements, fiscal measures, green procurement and a number of other initiatives [...]

A key element of the Government’s market transformation policy is to ensure the availability and accessibility of information about the environmental performance of consumer products and other traded goods to:

Enable the development of market transformation strategies;
Enable informed choice and procurement decisions by consumers and throughout the supply chain;
Stimulate and enable competition;
Identify performance Standard Specifications for [...]

In February 2003 the Government unveiled its Energy White Paper: Our energy future – creating a low carbon economy. The paper seeks to introduce step changes to the way in which the UK produces and consumes energy. It outlines a clear strategy to reduce harmful emissions over the next 50 years with energy efficiency at [...]

UK EPIC provides practical advice for private individuals and professional buyers who may have no special environmental knowledge or expertise with purchasing products but wish to ensure the products they buy are good value, do not waste resources and are less harmful to the environment.
Buying “green” can be a complex business. Detailed environmental specifications are [...]