Green products refer to products that meet the requirements of environmental protection, are harmless to the ecological environment and human health or have little harm, consume less resources and energy, and have high quality in the whole life cycle. Specifically, the design of green products adheres to the double standards of good product quality and excellent environmental benefits; In the production process, select environmental protection materials, improve energy utilization, reduce emissions and reduce pollution; Users should be healthy, energy-saving and environmental friendly when using; When the product is recycled, the waste shall be small and easy to handle.
Green product certification is a kind of voluntary product certification. It is a product certification comprehensively implemented by the State Administration of market supervision throughout the country, aiming to unify green related certification. The certification object is mainly terminal consumer goods, and products with high consumer concern, urgent need for consumption upgrading, and great impact on ecological environment and human health are selected. According to the policy of unified catalogue, unified standard, unified evaluation and unified identification, the existing products of environmental protection, energy saving, water saving, recycling, low-carbon, regeneration and organic are integrated into green products, and the market is positioned as green high-end product certification.
In May 2017, the National Standardization Committee issued the general rules for green product evaluation, which defined the principles for determining the categories of green products, the principles for selecting green indicators, and the requirements for the green indicator framework.
In December 2017, GB / t35601 ~ 12 national standards for green product evaluation were issued.
In April 2018, the State Administration of market supervision and Administration issued the list of green product evaluation standards and certification catalogue (the first batch) (No. 2 of 2018), which determined the term definition, product classification, evaluation requirements and evaluation methods of the 12 green product evaluations listed in the first batch.
Furniture is the first batch of certified catalogue products.
Green products (certification activity 1) - furniture products include: wood furniture (wood-based furniture), wood furniture (solid wood furniture), wood furniture (wood board furniture), metal furniture, bamboo and rattan furniture, plastic furniture, glass and stone furniture, soft furniture (sofa), soft furniture (mattress), soft furniture (soft bed), soft furniture (chair), etc.
○ GB/T 33761-2017《General rules for green product evaluation》
○ GB/T 35607-2017《Green product evaluation furniture》
Green product certification follows the principle of green high-end leading, which is the development trend of domestic product manufacturing industry and the inevitable result of the transition of economic development to green low-carbon. The value and benefits of green product certification mainly include the following points:
○ Establish a more complete internal management system, improve the internal management and technical level, and stabilize the operation;
○ Strengthen quality management and improve the quality of products and services through the participation of all staff;
○ Improve work efficiency, reduce product cost, and comprehensively improve enterprise economic efficiency;
○ Obtain the qualification of market access, enhance market competitiveness and seize the first opportunity;
○ Obtain important evidences that customers and consumers can trust, enhance trust and continuous satisfaction to the enterprise;
○ Through professional authority certification, eliminate the trust crisis and save the energy and cost of repeated verification;
○ VIP coupons for government procurement and major project bidding;
○ Obtain the "green pass" of international trade and break through the technical barriers established between international trade;
○ Expand the popularity of the enterprise and improve the enterprise image;
○ Enterprise commitment is an important way to fulfill social responsibility and achieve sustainable development.
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