ACS Canada ECO Design Certification: A Framework for Sustainability
Environmental challenges—climate change, pollution, and resource depletion—demand practical action. ECO Design Certification from ACS Canada provides a structured framework to embed sustainability into product development and day-to-day operations, reducing environmental footprint while creating value for customers and stakeholders.
The program supports manufacturers and service organizations in managing environmental impacts across the lifecycle, aligning with widely used hygiene and sustainability principles and good practices in industry.
ECO Design principles
- Water efficiency: reduce use, recycle where feasible, and protect local water quality
- Waste management: prevent, reduce, reuse and recycle with documented controls
- Reversibility to nature: favor materials and processes with safe end-of-life pathways
- Food system stability: support responsible sourcing and resilient supply chains where applicable
- Natural resource consumption: minimize use of finite resources through design and operations
- Reduction of environmental pollutants: limit emissions, effluents and hazardous releases
- Green principle training: educate teams and suppliers to apply eco-design in practice
- Transparency: disclose goals, metrics and progress with clear, honest communication
How certification works
- Scope and baseline: define products, sites and impact hotspots; gather current metrics
- Action plan: set objectives, targets and controls across the ECO Design principles
- Implementation and records: embed controls into design, procurement and operations
- Independent assessment: ACS Canada reviews evidence, interviews teams and verifies outcomes
- Approval and surveillance: successful sites/products are certified with periodic follow-up
Business benefits
- Economic gains through resource efficiency, waste reduction and cost savings
- New market opportunities with sustainability-minded buyers and investors
- Innovation stimulus for lower-impact materials, packaging and processes
- Lower liability and risk via proactive environmental controls and monitoring
- Stronger customer satisfaction and brand reputation built on measurable impact
Why ACS Canada
ACS Canada brings practical environmental management expertise, clear reporting and an implementation-focused approach that helps teams integrate eco-design quickly and credibly—turning sustainability goals into verified results.
Get started
Share your product portfolio, site list and current sustainability initiatives to receive a tailored proposal and assessment plan.
Email: info@canadacerts.ca | Phone: +1 (604) 924-5506
