SCS Environmentally Preferable Product Certificate

Third-party certification by SCS Global Services that the product met the requirements of the SCS Environmentally Preferable Product standard it was certified against — a multi-attribute assessment informed by life cycle assessment covering areas such as materials, manufacturing impacts, and end-of-life — for the stated product scope and standard version.

• General 'verified sustainable' or 'best in class' status — it proves conformance with one certifier's standard at the stated version, not superiority over all alternatives.
• A specific quantified carbon footprint, recycled content percentage, or emission rate — those values require their own documents even when the LCA informed the certification.
• Indoor air quality emissions performance — that is SCS's separate Indoor Advantage programme, not EPP.
• Equivalence with national Type I ecolabels (Blue Angel, EU Ecolabel) — EPP is a certifier-operated programme and its recognition in rating systems must be checked per system.

• Has Type I Ecolabel →

  low risk

Minimum authority

Third-party verified

Should state

Certificate Number · Standard Version · Valid Until · Product Scope

Date sensitivity

Expiry matters — check the certificate is current.

SCS is both the standard developer and the certifier for EPP; treat its assurance as third-party verified but note it is not a national ecolabel programme.

Do not conflate SCS EPP with other SCS marks (FloorScore, Indoor Advantage, SCS Recycled Content) — each proves something different.

Identify the exact EPP standard and version on the certificate; criteria and scope have varied across product categories and revisions.