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What is "environmentally friendly"

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
environmentally friendly
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And as you don't need chemicals, it's environmentally friendly, and saves you money.
▪ As an agricultural crop, sunflowers are extremely environmentally friendly.
▪ I hope you will follow up your cycling experience by campaigning for real improvements for this most environmentally friendly form of transport.
▪ In some cases, the materials are not environmentally friendly.
▪ Mr. Trippier My right hon. Friend is not environmentally benign but environmentally friendly.
▪ Neither does canned food provide an environmentally friendly option for preserving food.
▪ They represent products which have been singled out and improved to make them more environmentally friendly.
Wiktionary
environmentally friendly

a. Causing little harm to the environment.

Wikipedia
Environmentally friendly

Environmentally friendly or environment-friendly, (also referred to as eco-friendly, nature-friendly, and green) are marketing and sustainability terms referring to goods and services, laws, guidelines and policies that inflict reduced, minimal, or no harm upon ecosystems or the environment. Companies use these ambiguous terms to promote goods and services, sometimes with additional, more specific certifications, such as ecolabels. Their overuse can be referred to as greenwashing.

The International Organization for Standardization has developed ISO 14020 and ISO 14024 to establish principles and procedures for environmental labels and declarations that certifiers and eco-labellers should follow. In particular, these standards relate to the avoidance of financial conflicts of interest, the use of sound scientific methods and accepted test procedures, and openness and transparency in the setting of standards.

Usage examples of "environmentally friendly".

He was baptized Catholic and raised an Episcopalian, but left the Episcopal Church in a huff when he finally found his true religion: environmentally friendly exercise.

Until this, they'd been nurturing a thoughtful, environmentally friendly plan for their own growth.

Then an announcer's voice took over, describing an environmentally friendly array of cleaning products.

It's much fresher this way, and much more environmentally friendly.

Swain had the gall to pump his farm's wastes into Lake Waccamaw, then call out a reporter to show her what an environmentally friendly farm we had at Cornerstone.

Small planes crisscrossed the sky, maintaining a layer of (no doubt environmentally friendly) dust on which the lasers painted virtual images of a turning Earth.

Videophones could access directory listings at the touch of a few keys, and for those who didn't have such things, it was cheaper, and more environmentally friendly, to have free directory assistance.

His TV and billboard ads pushing the concept of environmentally friendly industry dominated the airwaves and roadsides.