Revision of the EU Ecolabel Criteria for: Hand dishwashing detergents. Preliminary Report

Galyna Medyna (), Alicia Boyano (), Renata Kaps, Josephine Arendorf (), Katherine Bojczuk (), Laura Golsteijn (), Anne Gaasbeek () and Dan Skinner ()
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Galyna Medyna: European Commission – JRC, https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/index_en
Josephine Arendorf: Oakdene Hollins
Katherine Bojczuk: Oakdene Hollins
Laura Golsteijn: PRé Consultants
Anne Gaasbeek: PRé Consultants
Dan Skinner: PRé Consultants

No JRC96852, JRC Research Reports from Joint Research Centre

Abstract: The EU Ecolabel criteria for hand dishwashing detergents are under revision. This revision process will take into account the current market conditions and the EU Ecolabel criteria will aim at addressing the most important environmental impacts of the hand dishwashing detergents in a life cycle perspective. The identification of the main hotspots is carried out in this study by means of an initial extensive literature review and subsequent LCA studies. LCA studies showed that the largest contribution to the environmental impact profile of hand dishwashing detergents is - by far - the use phase, particularly the energy needed to heat the water. For some impact categories, the sourcing of raw materials and the end of life are also important. Based on the normalisation assessment, by far the most important impact categories for hand dishwashing detergents in Europe are natural land transformation and fossil depletion. The study reveals that there are several improvement opportunities such reduction in the wash temperature or used of concentrated detergents. Changes in the detergent formulation can also reduce the impacts in different categories.

Keywords: environment(91); policy(250); water(95); toxicology(260) (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 135 pages
Date: 2015-11
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