Cititec is an IT recruitment solutions company that has earned ISO 14001, one of the leading international environmental management certification processes.Created by the International Organization for Standardization, ISO 14001 was developed by an international selection of business groups, environmental bodies and governments with the aim of facilitating environmental improvement in...

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For all but the willfully ignorant, it is abundantly obvious that the population explosion has fueled environmental degradation. Although some try to argue that population is not the problem, the evidence indicates that overpopulation is directly linked to water shortages, soil exhaustion, loss of forests, air and water pollution. According...

The world population has grown tremendously over the past two thousand years. In 1999, the world population passed the six billion mark. This growth is due to the agricultural and industrial revolutions that decreased childhood mortality rates and increased life expectancies. Current projections show a steady decline in the population...

ISO 14040 series deals with the product life cycle; it covers the guiding principles of life cycle analysis, inventory, impact assessment, and interpretation, and provides some sample applications. Credible environmental labeling is dependent on an understanding of the life cycle of a product; consequently, there is a close linkage between...

These principles are part of ISO 14020, they serve as a prerequisite for all the other standards in the series.1. Environmental labels and declarations shall be accurate, verifiable, relevant, and not misleading.2. Procedures and requirements for environmental labels and declarations shall not be prepared, adopted, or applied with a view...