The Environmental Label Jury agreed on the criteria for two new ecolabels at its summer meeting:
The new Blue Angel ecolabel for events offers event organisations the opportunity to advertise their events such as conferences and trade fairs or cultural events such as concerts and theatre festivals with the ecolabel if they comply with high environmental and sustainability standards.
// This content is only available in German // Seit Januar 2022 ist es möglich einen Blauen Engel für Antifouling-Systeme zu beantragen. Ziel des neuen Umweltzeichens ist es wirksame und zugleich umweltverträgliche Bewuchsschutzsysteme zu zertifizieren. Der Geltungsbereich des Umweltzeichens umfasst ausschließlich Produkte für den Rumpfaußenbereich von Schiffen und Booten. Die Funktionsprinzipien der für diesen Bereich verfügbaren Systeme sind sehr divers und reichen von Antihaftprodukten über reinigungsfähige Hartbeschichtungen bis hin zu Ultraschallsystemen oder Bootshebeanlagen.
“For us, it is important to create an initial spark in the market when it comes to looking at environmental and health risks,” explains ELAPRO managing director Mario Saalmann and: “As a manufacturer, we can tell our customers a lot of things, but it is much more important to convey transparency, respectability and objectivity with an ecolabel that they know and understand.” ELAPRO has been continuing the over 80-year tradition of Wolfener Lackfabrik at its production site under its new name since 2014.
Around 50,000 visitors strolled along the capital’s Straße des 17. Juni in early summer temperatures and bright sunshine on the last weekend of April. Federal Minister for the Environment Steffi Lemke visited the stand of the German federal government’s ecolabel in the morning. By her side: author, activist and “greenfluencer” Domitila Barros, who accompanied this year’s Environmental Festival as a patron.
A two-day team retreat at the end of April offered an opportunity to personally build on the mostly digital interaction in everyday working life between Bonn, the RAL headquarters, and the German Environment Agency in Dessau-Roßlau and set out the joint path for the further development of the Blue Angel. Before celebrating the German Environment Agency’s 50th anniversary this year, the city on the Elbe played host to visitors from the Rhine.
What does the certification mean for the new licence holders, and what roles do environmentally friendly materials play in roof design if climate change also continues to advance at our latitude? Once the trade fair was over, Christian Deckert, Head of Product Management for Waterproofing Membranes at alwitra, answered these and other questions on environmentally friendly construction.
