The Eco Mark Criteria of Products Made from Recycled Ocean Plastic Waste and Fishery Plastic Waste

Abstract

The Eco Mark program, which the Japan Environment Association undertakes, is managed in accordance with ISO 14024. Certification criteria for every product category have taken the environmental burden at each the life stage (resource extraction, manufacture, distribution, use, recycling, disposal) of products into consideration. Eco Mark covers wide range of categories in terms of resource circulation for plastics since its start 30 years ago. Eco Mark launched the first ever Type I Ecolabel criteria “Products made from Recycled “Marine Plastic Litter” in Feb 2021.