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Sustainable Products & Services (SPSv2.0i-2020)
Status
Current
Issue Date
May 26, 2021
Recognised programs
Steel is a vital material for the built environment and vehicles, art, medicine, and information technology. The steel industry contributes $11 billion to Australia’s GDP and employs over 100,000 people. The unique physical properties of this popular material allow it to be reused or recycled without loss of quality. However, like all materials, steel can pose a significant environmental, health and social burden during its manufacture, use and disposal.
An LCA is a science-based tool that can help evaluate the environmental or social impacts of products and services throughout their whole lifecycle, from raw materials extraction to their end-of-life.
However, unlike other LCA services, by certifying under GECA’s lifecycle ecolabel standard, a product or service must demonstrate that it produces a reduced environmental load compared to current typical offerings without compromising other areas of sustainability, such as social or health impacts.
The Sustainable Products & Services standard is especially suited to those products and services not currently covered by existing GECA standard categories, designed using circular economy principles.
This standard supersedes the Environmentally Innovative Products (GECA 08-2007) standard.
The standard sets requirements that aim to provide a benefit by:
Requiring that virgin mined and quarried raw materials must come from operations with environmental management plans
Ensuring manufacturers using post‐consumer scrap must implement procedures to exclude feedstocks containing undesirable materials
Requiring that off-gases must be captured to the maximum extent practicable and directed to a treatment system to control particulate matter
Restricting carbon emissions
Limiting emissions of volatile organic compounds (VOCs)
Preventing the use of specific hazardous materials and toxic heavy metals such as known carcinogens and mutagen
Ensuring workers and suppliers through the supply chain can expect fair pay, equal opportunity, and a safe working environment
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