Environmental consumeralwarnesstecnologies
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This document discusses environmental consumer awareness technology. It describes how eco-friendly product labeling is used by many companies but can be difficult for consumers to understand. It proposes a web-based application or cell phone app to make environmental impact labels more understandable and increase sustainable purchasing. Examples of proposed features include looking up product labels and finding nearby recycling locations.
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- 1. Environmental Consumer Awareness Technology
- 2. What and Why many companies have adopted eco-friendly labeling as a selling point for their products However, with a large number of individuals unable to actually identify the various externalities that production can have on the environment, studies have indicated that making such labels more understandable would vastly increase the odds of consumers purchasing more ecologically-responsible products
- 3. Web based Cell phone Application
- 4. Web-based
- 7. SKIN DEEPEnvironmental Working Group
- 8. SKIN DEEPEnvironmental Working Group http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGCuVH-wjAg&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F00WeXLNNsQ&feature=related http://www.cosmeticsdatabase.com/ Thx Ellen..!
- 9. SKIN DEEPEnvironmental Working Group Methodogiy Manufactures & partner organizations The International Cosmetics Ingredient Dictionary The International Nomenclature for Cosmetic Ingredients Cosmetic Ingredient Review(CRI) governmental, industrial, and academic journals
- 11. i Recycle Features: Access to over 100,000 recycling and disposal locations for over 200 materials Get directions to the nearest site from your current location Use the auto-complete feature to find what you need to recycle to speed up your search Check your search history to replay old search results Find additional information for each location like hours of operation, other materials accepted etc. Call locations directly from search results
- 12. Label Lookup
- 13. Label Lookup
- 14. Label Lookup Methodoliogy Third Party Verification Eco-Label Index Consumer’s Union USDA EPA
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- Types of technoligoies we founds are---
- We found a few webbasedcunsumerawarness tools , in fact most of our phone apps have an webbased version online. Many of the sites were vendors/ with there own tools
- Buy Green is an online green product archive and vendor. Their products are manufactured by environmentally-oriented businesses. Ass you can see from the lists they don’t sell foods, mostly 354336467 products.Here is an exsample of a page on a productStrandards:Sourse material, Manufactering, use, and DisspoalBuy Green Gets it information from the entirely from the manufactures
- is an online resource aimed at providing consumers with accessible and credible information on the validity of environmental product labels. They have a tool called Label & claims
- The Skin Deep Cosmetic Safety Database is an online cosmetic safety review search engine created by a non-profit organization, know as Environmental Working GroupSkin Deep allows you to search there database and see the score given, the ingredients, company policies, and what the covered ingredients are linked to health-wise. For sunscreen, Skin Deep also includes the effectiveness of protection from UV rays
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- Skin Deep obtains its data from online retailers, manufactures, partner organizations, and various online resources. Product ingredients are found through sources such as The International Cosmetics Ingredient Dictionary and Handbook, the International Nomenclature for Cosmetic Ingredients, Cosmetic Ingredient Review(CRI), and data provided by the manufacturers. For cases of animal testing, EWG references PETA's rating bases. On toxicity, EWG refers to governmental, industrial, and academic journals.To reach their score, Skin Deep inputs "cancer, reproductive/developmental toxicity, neurotoxicity, endocrine disruption potential, allergies/immunotoxicity, restrictions/warnings, organ system toxicity, persistence/bioaccumulation, multiple/additive exposure, mutations, cellular/biochemical changes, ecotoxicity, occupational hazards, irritation, absorption, impurities, and other miscellaneous factors. EWG rates a single factor 0-100 (for example, if a product contains mercury, that product receives a score of ten, the worst, in the reproductive/developmental section). All the factors' scores are weighted to produce a final score.
- The iRecycle application from Earth911 is used to locate recycling facilities for specific materials. Orginally created by the URRC and Spartanburg Coca-Cola Bottling Company United, Inc. partnered with iRecycle in 2008. With the application the user is able to input what kind of material they are trying to dispose of (ranging anywhere from old bottles to motor oil and car batteries), followed by their location, and the application brings up a list of facilities in that area, including instant maps and directions. iRecycle lists over 110,000 recycling and disposal locations for 240 different recyclable materials. Additional features include updates on local "green" events.[11]
- Label Lookup is an application offered by NRDC Simple Steps which allows users to check the validity of product labels. Many products feature claims on their labels such as "Free Range," "No Additives," or "Non-Toxic," but the actual weight or meaning of these claims can be vague or misleading to the consumer. The function of Label Lookup is to verify these claims and provide the user with a better understanding of how certified the product actually is. Like GoodGuides, Label Lookup is also an application specifically for iPhone, but the service can also be accessed from any cellphone (by sending a text code followed by the label name) as well as online.[8]
- The application uses a "three-leaf" scoring system (essentially a score of 0-3, 0 being the worst and 3 being the best). A score of 3 means the claim is verified by government or other reputable bodies and checked by third-party inspectors, meeting the highest environmental standards; claims receiving a 2 are simply verified or regulated while remaining consistent; a 1 is a claim that can potentially be false advertising and subject to legal recourse; a score of 0 represents a claim that is vague or lacking in consistent definitions.
- Due to the wide variance of labels and certification programs, Label Lookup aims to keep their rating system as neutral and descriptive as possible, looking for labels that are well-defined and verified by third-party certifiers while meeting the standards of NRDC's program staff. In many cases, information is drawn from the eco-label sites themselves (where applicable), as well as the USDA, EPA, Consumer's Union, the Ecolabel Index, and other government bodies that regulate specific product categories such as paints. This information is used to lay out the regulations to apply to the use of certain claims within certain contexts (for example, "fresh" or "natural").
- The GoodGuide application for the iPhone allows users to turn their phones into makeshift scanners, using the camera function to snap a picture of the individual bar-code on the back of a product. This bar-code reading brings up a product rating assessed by GoodGuide (represented by a score out of 10
- Each of the three ratings is scored on a scale of 1-10, 10 being the best, 1 the worst. Under each score number is a brief explanation, followed by a link to more data. If clicked, the link brings up a list of subcategories, each with their own scores for individual concerns such as human health impact, safety, corporate ethics, labor and human rights, and even the social conditions of the state in which the item was produced, among other things. There is also Life Cycle Analyzes (LCA) for the product if such information is available.UnfuturatlyNeslte drum sticks didn’t have an life cycle assesment, So I’ll share with you the good guides LCA for Nesquik Strawberry Milk