Q1

What is Green Mark?

EPA encourages businesses lowers environmental impact when they are manufacturing product and obtaining raw materials by adopting the principle of lower pollution, save the resource, promote waste reduction, reduce toxic substance generation, and recycling. Also, consumer must carefully choose products which are recyclable, with low pollution, and resource saving. Green Mark is the figure of “a green leaf to wrap up a clean and unpolluted earth”. Green Mark means this product has been verified through certain certification to show that this product is qualified of recyclable, low pollution, and resource saving, this certification makes huge contribution to the environmental protection.

Q2

The definition of the Green Mark categorization?

Primary Green Mark Product Certification has been promoted for 7 years. The product category is predefined each year, and EPA invites scholars to make the specification of this kind of product, EPA also makes market survey on these products’ marketability. If manufacturer’s production is in compliance of the specifications, then they can apply for the certification. Because the production specification is made through scrutinized auditing process, and it is very time consuming, therefore, the product choose is usually the product that is related to the daily life necessity, buying in large quantity, or is promptly needed by the consumer.
Because there are too many products in the market eligible yet can not be considered in the primary product category, hence aiming at the environmental products which are not being certified on time, can still participated in the secondary green mark product certification and to enjoy the benefit of regulation of Green Procurement. 

Q3

What's difference with Primary、Secondary and
Third ?

The properties of Primary Green Mark Products are:
1.Predefined product specification
2.Take “life cycle” into account
3.The Green Mark only gives to the best product
Secondary Green Mark is for the manufacturers who use environmental protection as the main theme of the advertisement; they shall follow some certain standards. These standards are recyclable mark, advertisement word, and the testing method and verification standards for 10 other properties like recyclable, utilities saving like
electricity and water usage, can be composted, can be decomposed.The Third Green Mark emphasized on the life cycle appraisal (at least to finish the listed analysis), and described the impact toward the environment detailed. For example, like the energy consumption per unit, water consumption per unit, waste discharge quantity …etc. The consumer can make choice based on these standards.

Q4

Why Green Mark products are
trustworthy?

1. The Green Mark only gives to the product that will give lowest environmental impact in the 20 to 30% of the same categories.
2. Green Mark is given out by the independent third party without interference of the manufacturer or lobbyist.
3.Green Mark set a Benchmark for the same category product.
4. The Green Mark decision policy making process is transparent.
5.The Green Mark is multiple criteria, which makes consumers easy to understand and can choose the best product.
6.It is possible to avoid the overlapping of the mark, like one product has many marks of electricity saving, water usage saving, or recyclable mark. 

Q5

Green consumption?

Green consumption means to adopt simple and plain life living concept, consumers only consume the living necessity. Consumers consider purchasing the product that is having lower impact toward the environment. The range of picking up qualified product or raw material includes the manufacturing process, consuming process,
and waste treatment. Since the consuming behavior is changed, businesses are willing to manufacture the recyclable, low pollution,resource saving product, or green product, and establish selling channel. This will promote resource sustainable use, lower pollution, and environmental protection.

Q6

What is Green product?

Green products mean it is the product that has considered the environmental impact in its life cycle design. Green product design is a relative concept, not absolute, and it will have different evaluation coming out during different time and space. According to ISO 14021, the environmental properties includes the followings:
‧Recycling Rate
‧Reusability / Refillibility
‧Reduce resource use
‧Recyclable
‧Resource Recycling
‧Can be take apart
‧Solid waste quantity reduction
‧can be composted
‧can save the energy
‧can be decomposed
‧water saving
‧prolong the life cycle