PEDRO ALFONSO GIRALDO GÓMEZ - Barranquilla (Colombia)
Nowadays when buying in the market he has noticed you that exists many products with ecological labels, with arbolitos, colored animals, ecological sentences and until having drawn the planet earth, but. has he noticed the components that have those products?
It is that with el"boom"de the ecology buys natural products without really noticing that we are taking to house.Before this tendency and with the purpose of to conserve the environment and to guide the consumers toward the purchase of products that you/they don't cause damage to the environment.
Organizations of the international and national plane, they have established the norms of environmental, such administration it is the case in our country of the Colombian Institute of Technical norms ICONTEC that I dictate the norm ISO 14.000 in complement of the norm ISO 9.000 that it establishes the norms of quality.
THE GREEN STAMP
In 1978 he begins in Germany the one labeled ecological which is granted to the products that mitigate the negative impact that generates the industrial activity, products that in their elaboration process, in
their useful life and in the moment in that they are discarded they don't contaminate, and especially those products that are elaborated with matters recycled cousins.
This figure obeys the new approaches of the national and international markets that frame a localization of the industries.
An example of this norm has implemented it the Council of Forest Handling FSC that seeks to aid all cycle of the production and The transformation of the wood. Certified internationally with this stamp.
Of another side at level world forty countries the same as Germany grants the green stamp to its products, classified in categories that each country settles down, some of these countries are: Canada, Nordic, New Countries Zealand, Japan, Korea and the European Community.
AS READING A GREEN STAMP
To read a green stamp for their novelty is a little difficult due to the little one that it has been said on the topic.
It is very important to read before buying a product since products that you/they truly help to the environment exist and they are reliable for their quality. When reading we keep in mind the following thing:
That the piles don't contain mercury, the aerosols are not elaborated with identified clorofluorocarbonados with the acronym NON CFC'S", the paintings and detergents the active ingredient is natural and biodegradable, and finally that the product to the moment to eliminate it is recyclable identifying it with this symbol:
Some of the current messages that we find in the market and their meanings are the following ones
Friends of the Environment or friends of the Ecology: This doesn't mean anything, look for other alternatives.
It doesn't damage the layer of Ozone: It means that CFC´S, causing element of the hole in the layer of Ozone doesn't contain.
Natural product: It means that it doesn't contain coloring artificial, preservatives and other synthetic ingredients.
Enemies of the cruelty: It means that the product has not been proven in wild animals.
• VENTAJAS The consumer will have access to real benefits favoring a better quality of life.
• La reduction of the indiscriminate exploitation of the natural resources not renewable, it achieves this way an echo efficiency in the industrial administration.
• La incorporation of the true environmental costs
It is, so from now on we put in he practices all the above-mentioned and he remembers assuming a change of positive attitude before the tendency of the consumption of true products, achieving this way a relationship "Man - nature "
