The “Blauer Engel” – Blue Angel – is the oldest eco-seal of approval. Created in 1977 the seal affirms to his beholder to be of an excellent ecological quality. About 3.600 products and services from approximately 580 label users in Germany and abroad are entitled to bear the Blue Angel. The Blue Angel promotes the concerns of both environmental protection and consumer protection. Therefore it is awarded to products and services which are particularly beneficial for the environment in an all-round consideration and which also fulfil high standards of occupational health and safety and fitness for use. Economical use of raw materials, production, usage, service life and disposal – all these factors are assigned a high importance.According to the demands of the new green movement the seal is about to combine the needs of ecology with the terms of economy. If you go on buying more than one product, carrying the Blue Angel, you will get a discount of 15 percent, the Frankfurter Rundschau reported in their paper of April 3rd. To collect scores for this discount you get a voucher broschure. The broschure is a new offline initiative. On the site www.Blauer-Engel.de
however you find all information on eco-products you can possibly think off.The Blue Angel environmental label is the property of the Federal Ministry of the Environment, Nature Protection and Nuclear Safety. It is sponsored and administered by the German Federal Environmental Agency and the quality assurance and product labelling institute RAL Deutsches Institut für Gütesicherung und Kennzeichnung e.V. All technical demands placed on products and services for the award of the Environmental Label are decided by the independent Environmental Label jury.