Sustainability and Environment

Our global presence brings you a world of expertise combined with diverse local knowledge. We can help you harmonize the needs of regulatory, industry and social demands across your markets. We’ll assist you in driving sustainability practices across all business operations and activities. Our testing, certification, inspection and business intelligence solutions help you expand knowledge, anticipate and respond to risk, and increase transparency across your value chain.

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ANSI A138.1 Green Squared Certification for Tiles and Installation Materials

As a trusted provider of third-party evaluation and certification of sustainable products, UL Environment empowers manufacturers to transform their environmental stewardship into true market leadership. We can help you differentiate your products as a Green Squared Certification provider.

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BIFMA LEVEL Certification

We are an approved certification body for BIFMA LEVEL certification for sustainable products, giving manufacturers an edge in an increasingly competitive green marketplace.

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BIFMA M7.1 Testing for VOC Emissions from Office Furniture and Seating

We offer VOC emissions testing of your office furniture and seating. Our emissions testing can be used to comply with the BIFMA M7.1 requirement as well as BIFMA X7.1 and BIFMA e3.

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Bio-based Product Content Validation

Get an edge over the competition with UL’s Bio-based Content Validation service. We’ll help authenticate the sustainability claims that you are making about your products, providing proof that they are as environmentally-friendly as they claim to be.

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Building Sustainability and Energy Advisory Services

UL’s sustainability and energy advisory packages can help round out your sustainability program.

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By-Product Synergy Claim Validation

By receiving our ECV Mark, which validates the amount of waste you’ve reduced by exchanging it with other facilities, you’ll be able to showcase your sustainability leadership to consumers, businesses and regulatory agencies.

California Proposition 65 Compliance Solutions

Safer products are paramount to long-term business success, a strong brand and happy, loyal consumers. Protect your brand, differentiate your products, mitigate risk, and demonstrate your commitment to consumer safety and health.

CDPH Standard Method for VOC Emissions

The CDPH Standard Method is referenced by some of the most widely used green building rating systems and codes, including LEED, IgCC, CalGreen, ASHRAE 189.1 and others. This enables manufacturers to make an investment in a product emissions test that meets a broad range of requirements.

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Chemical Emissions Product Testing

UL Environment has evaluated more than 70,000 products for more than 10,000 chemicals. With our state-of-the-art technology, we can measure chemicals from products, including furniture, construction materials, consumer products, electronics and appliances.

Chemical Policy Management

We are here to help you establish, communicate and enforce a customized chemical policy for your organization. With digital solutions backed by regulatory and science expertise, we offer you the ability to manage chemicals used to manufacture your products.

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Demonstrating Product Health and Wellness

Our health and wellness services provide you with a trusted, third-party resource that can help you to demonstrate the health benefits of your products. Differentiate your offerings, meet green purchasing or sustainable building requirements, increase transparency, mitigate risk and help build trust with UL.

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ECOLOGO® Certification

UL ECOLOGO® Certification provides marketplace differentiation, helping to give you a competitive edge with third-party verification and ensure conscientious consumers that your product, service or package has reduced environmental impact.

Environmental Claim Validation

UL independently validates that products are measuring up to their marketing claims, including recycled content to landfill waste diversion claims. UL’s validation will help give both manufacturers and consumers peace of mind.

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Environmental Product Declaration (EPDs)

A manufacturer's commitment to sustainability can be a market differentiator. When purchasers better understand a product's sustainable qualities and environmental repercussions, they can be more confident in the brand. UL is the leading certifier of EPDs and a trusted PCR creator.

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EPEAT Assessment and Registration

UL helps green electronics manufacturers with EPEAT assessment and registration. UL Environment can help streamline readiness assessments, testing and certification to the IEEE suite of standards and registration of products with the central EPEAT registry.

FEMB Level Certification

Learn how UL can help furniture manufacturers demonstrate furniture sustainability with FEMB level certification.

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Green Building Purchasing Services

Through our SPOT Product Database, we help architects, designers, specifiers and purchasers streamline product selection for green projects and purchasing, streamlining the verification process for sustainable building programs, such as LEED.

Green Laboratory Practices Certification

The Green Laboratory Practices Certification from UL Environment helps hospitals and other medical laboratory facilities communicate their comprehensive efforts toward reduced environmental impact of operations.

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Green Product Certifications for LEED

UL Environment’s LEED Package includes a suite of certifications and validations to ensure your products are well-positioned to meet and exceed LEED credit requirements, promote your sustainability achievements to the marketplace, and gain preference on green building projects around the world.

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Greener Product Framework

Buyers are more sensitive to environment, and the Greener Product Framework will help you show your environmental leadership, giving you an advantage in the marketplace.