EUROPEAN UNION
Ecolabel is EU's official environmental label established in 1992. It guarantees that products meet strict environmental requirements either as consumer goods or as construction components. The label provide 3rd party environmental verification according to ISO 14024 type I - that focus on multi-criteria impacts from the full product life cycle, from extraction of raw material to disposal.
Electrical cables and wires can be evaluated, 3rd party verified and listed in Ecolabel construction database, whereby they are suitable for use in construction seeking to be environmentally approved via BREEM, LEED, Swan Label, DGNB etc.
SCANDINAVIA
Swan Label is the official Nordic environmental label for 3rd party independent approval and labeling or certification of consumer goods, construction components or entire buildings.
The label sets strict demands for chemical contents in individual materials and finished products, in order to protect both the environment and human health.
This makes it easy for consumers, companies and the public sector to reduce their climate impact and use of harmful chemicals.
Currently Prysmian Scandinavia has approx. 40 cable types approved and listed in Ecolabel construction database.
STRICT
Both labels sets strict demands for chemical contents in individual materials and finished products, according to the EU SVHC or Candidate list - in order to protect both the environment and human health.
This includes substances that are harmful to the environment, carcinogenic, mutagenic or harmful to the human reproductive system. Swan Label for example, bans all organic fluorinated substances both classified and unclassified, excluding more than 4,000 chemicals.in this group.
Thus, electrical cables and wires must not contain any phthalates exceeding 100 ppm or 0.1% per 100 kg of finished product.
SWEDEN
BASTA is a non-profit organisation run and managed jointly by the Swedish Environmental Institute and Byggföretagen. BASTA is a system for anyone who wants to make conscious product choices with the aim of phasing out substances harmful to the environment and human health.
In the BASTA system, suppliers and manufacturers of construction products register products that meet the BASTA or BETA criteria requirement with regards to substances with hazardous properties.
Prysmian Sweden currently has 9 MV-cable types BASTA labeled.
SWEDEN
SundaHus is a consulting company that evaluates products and offers industry players access to their online database of environmentally friendly building materials - in order to help them reduce their environmental impact. With their data it is easier for builders and installers to meet environmental requirements for construction projects that must:
Prysmian Sweden has 14 cable types assessed and approved by Sundahus.
