Sentence examples for footprint label from inspiring English sources
A survey carried out in 2010 by Which?, a British consumer group, found that just a fifth of British shoppers recognised the carbon footprint label, compared with recognition rates of 82% for Fairtrade and 54% for organic labelling.
A fuzzy multiple objective linear programming (FMOLP) model is formulated to integrate the designed system for making decision associated with about environmental regulations and cost-effectiveness of carbon emissions in manufacturing firms given a carbon footprint label (CFL).
So it's no wonder that while metropolitan farmers market clientele talk themselves blue over the value (or lack therein) of a carbon footprint label, when you ask farmers what they need to know more about in order to improve their operations, they say the weather.
But now several British food companies and retailers plan to add "carbon footprint" labels showing the quantity (in grams) of carbon-dioxide emissions associated with making and transporting foods and other goods.
Implementing environmental impact food labels requires additional understanding of how consumers use footprint labels, and label suitability may vary for government organizations, retail and local grocers, and farmers.
Visualization of carbon footprints using methods such as carbon footprint labeling helps communicate to consumers how reductions in household consumption can be effective for reducing GHG emissions.
This study analyzes consumers' preferences for sustainable products as indicated by water and carbon footprint labels, enabling a rare cross-cultural comparison.
The nature of the significant differences in results across product categories and countries could aid industry and policy stakeholders in designing targeted footprint labeling initiatives.
DO YOU look for carbon-footprint labels on goods when shopping?
Although consumers have yet to embrace the idea, the quiet spread of carbon labels is being driven by companies, which have come to see the value of determining the carbon footprints of their products.Footprinting's first stepsThe earliest carbon-footprint labels, which appeared in 2007, indicated the promise of the idea but also highlighted the complexity of making it work.
Because many of the images overlapped and contained readily identifiable landmarks (such as footprints, labeled in leftmost image), the team could use sophisticated software to stitch 12 of the digital files together to create a single 45-meter-long 3D model of the site (left and center; colors in center panel represent elevations from low [blue] to high [red]).
