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Greening Your Products: Good for the Environment, Good for Your Bottom Line

How do these business owners and product designers go about improving existing products or introducing new green products? What motivates them to do so? In providing insight into these questions, this guidance document aims to encourage you to identify opportunities to green your existing products or introduce new green products to your product line.

This guidance document focuses on opportunities to help your business reduce the impact on the environment, while saving you money.

  • Greening Your Products: Good for the Environment, Good for Your Bottom Line (pdf) (612.51 KB, February 2002)

Sustainable Marketplace: Greener Products and Services

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  • Introduction to Ecolabels and Standards
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Last updated on April 25, 2025
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