Federal Trade Commission
Here at beyondGREEN we strive to stay current and compliant with all Federal Trade Commission guidelines in regards to products claiming environmental benefits. We have reviewed the latest Green Guide provided by the FTC in October of 2022 and are proud to say that our product adheres to the high standards outlined for claims of degradation, renewable resource composition, and compostability.
(a) It is deceptive to misrepresent, directly or by implication, that a product, package, or service offers a general environmental benefit.
(b) Unqualified general environmental benefit claims are difficult to interpret and likely convey a wide range of meanings. In many cases, such claims likely convey that the product, package, or service has specific and far-reaching environmental benefits and may convey that the item or service has no negative environmental impact. Because it is highly unlikely that marketers can substantiate all reasonable interpretations of these claims, marketers should not make unqualified general environmental benefit claims.
(c) Marketers can qualify general environmental benefit claims to prevent deception about the nature of the environmental benefit being asserted. To avoid deception, marketers should use clear and prominent qualifying language that limits the claim to a specific benefit or benefits. Marketers should not imply that any specific benefit is significant if it is, in fact, negligible. If a qualified general claim conveys that a product is more environmentally beneficial overall because of the particular touted benefit(s), marketers should analyze trade-offs resulting from the benefit(s) to determine if they can substantiate this claim.
(d) Even if a marketer explains, and has substantiation for, the product's specific environmental attributes, this explanation will not adequately qualify a general environmental benefit claim if the advertisement otherwise implies deceptive claims. Therefore, marketers should ensure that the advertisement's context does not imply deceptive environmental claims.
1. For traceability reasons, any Bags that you order must include beyondGREEN’s TUV Logo with their personal S0560 Code on the finished product. Generally, the TUV LOGO DOES NOT APPEAR ON THE PACKAGING FOR THE PRODUCT.
2. If it is not practicable to exclude the TUV Logo from the packaging, then beyondGREEN may manufacture your packaging with the TUV Logo on it, but there must be a clearly visible disclaimer in the immediate vicinity1 of the TUV Logo that states “this logo refers to the packaged product and not the packaging.”
3. Regardless of whether the TUV Logo appears on the product or the packaging, it must be clear that beyondGREEN is the certified license holder and you must IN NO WAY IMPLY, CLAIM, OR LEAD CONSUMERS TO BELIEVE THAT YOU OR YOUR BRAND OWN THE CERTIFICATION.
1. For traceability reasons, any Bags that you order must include beyondGREEN’s TUV Logo with their personal S0560 Code on the finished product. Generally, the TUV LOGO DOES NOT APPEAR ON THE PACKAGING FOR THE PRODUCT.
2. If it is not practicable to exclude the TUV Logo from the packaging, then beyondGREEN may manufacture your packaging with the TUV Logo on it, but there must be a clearly visible disclaimer in the immediate vicinity1 of the TUV Logo that states “this logo refers to the packaged product and not the packaging.”
3. Regardless of whether the TUV Logo appears on the product or the packaging, it must be clear that beyondGREEN is the certified license holder and you must IN NO WAY IMPLY, CLAIM, OR LEAD CONSUMERS TO BELIEVE THAT YOU OR YOUR BRAND OWN THE CERTIFICATION.
1. For traceability reasons, any Bags that you order must include beyondGREEN’s TUV Logo with their personal S0560 Code on the finished product. Generally, the TUV LOGO DOES NOT APPEAR ON THE PACKAGING FOR THE PRODUCT.
2. If it is not practicable to exclude the TUV Logo from the packaging, then beyondGREEN may manufacture your packaging with the TUV Logo on it, but there must be a clearly visible disclaimer in the immediate vicinity1 of the TUV Logo that states “this logo refers to the packaged product and not the packaging.”
3. Regardless of whether the TUV Logo appears on the product or the packaging, it must be clear that beyondGREEN is the certified license holder and you must IN NO WAY IMPLY, CLAIM, OR LEAD CONSUMERS TO BELIEVE THAT YOU OR YOUR BRAND OWN THE CERTIFICATION.
1. For traceability reasons, any Bags that you order must include beyondGREEN’s TUV Logo with their personal S0560 Code on the finished product. Generally, the TUV LOGO DOES NOT APPEAR ON THE PACKAGING FOR THE PRODUCT.
2. If it is not practicable to exclude the TUV Logo from the packaging, then beyondGREEN may manufacture your packaging with the TUV Logo on it, but there must be a clearly visible disclaimer in the immediate vicinity1 of the TUV Logo that states “this logo refers to the packaged product and not the packaging.”
3. Regardless of whether the TUV Logo appears on the product or the packaging, it must be clear that beyondGREEN is the certified license holder and you must IN NO WAY IMPLY, CLAIM, OR LEAD CONSUMERS TO BELIEVE THAT YOU OR YOUR BRAND OWN THE CERTIFICATION.
1. For traceability reasons, any Bags that you order must include beyondGREEN’s TUV Logo with their personal S0560 Code on the finished product. Generally, the TUV LOGO DOES NOT APPEAR ON THE PACKAGING FOR THE PRODUCT.
2. If it is not practicable to exclude the TUV Logo from the packaging, then beyondGREEN may manufacture your packaging with the TUV Logo on it, but there must be a clearly visible disclaimer in the immediate vicinity1 of the TUV Logo that states “this logo refers to the packaged product and not the packaging.”
3. Regardless of whether the TUV Logo appears on the product or the packaging, it must be clear that beyondGREEN is the certified license holder and you must IN NO WAY IMPLY, CLAIM, OR LEAD CONSUMERS TO BELIEVE THAT YOU OR YOUR BRAND OWN THE CERTIFICATION.
California Green Guides
Short-lived Climate Pollutants (SLCP): Organic Waste Reductions (SB 1383) (Went into effect 2022).
(a) A jurisdiction may comply with the requirements of this article by implementing a three-container organic waste collection service and providing a green container, a blue container, and a gray container to each generator in the following manner:
(1) The green container shall be provided for the collection of organic waste. The green container shall be intended for the collection of organic waste only and not non-organic waste. The contents of the green container shall be transported to a facility that recovers source separated organic waste.
(A) Compostable plastics may be placed in the green container if the material meets the ASTM D6400 sections 5.1 through 6.4.2 standard for compostability as published May, 2019, which is hereby incorporated by reference, and the contents of the green containers are transported to compostable material handling operations or facilities or in-vessel digestion operations or facilities that have provided written notification annually to the jurisdiction stating that the facility can process and recover that material.
1. For traceability reasons, any Bags that you order must include beyondGREEN’s TUV Logo with their personal S0560 Code on the finished product. Generally, the TUV LOGO DOES NOT APPEAR ON THE PACKAGING FOR THE PRODUCT.
2. If it is not practicable to exclude the TUV Logo from the packaging, then beyondGREEN may manufacture your packaging with the TUV Logo on it, but there must be a clearly visible disclaimer in the immediate vicinity1 of the TUV Logo that states “this logo refers to the packaged product and not the packaging.”
3. Regardless of whether the TUV Logo appears on the product or the packaging, it must be clear that beyondGREEN is the certified license holder and you must IN NO WAY IMPLY, CLAIM, OR LEAD CONSUMERS TO BELIEVE THAT YOU OR YOUR BRAND OWN THE CERTIFICATION.
1. For traceability reasons, any Bags that you order must include beyondGREEN’s TUV Logo with their personal S0560 Code on the finished product. Generally, the TUV LOGO DOES NOT APPEAR ON THE PACKAGING FOR THE PRODUCT.
2. If it is not practicable to exclude the TUV Logo from the packaging, then beyondGREEN may manufacture your packaging with the TUV Logo on it, but there must be a clearly visible disclaimer in the immediate vicinity1 of the TUV Logo that states “this logo refers to the packaged product and not the packaging.”
3. Regardless of whether the TUV Logo appears on the product or the packaging, it must be clear that beyondGREEN is the certified license holder and you must IN NO WAY IMPLY, CLAIM, OR LEAD CONSUMERS TO BELIEVE THAT YOU OR YOUR BRAND OWN THE CERTIFICATION.
beyondGREEN biotech, Inc.
At beyondGREEN biotech, Inc. we ensure that all of our product packaging, especially for pet waste bags contains a message informing customers that the product within the packaging is made from compostable materials and that the packaging itself is not compostable.
1. For traceability reasons, any Bags that you order must include beyondGREEN’s TUV Logo with their personal S0560 Code on the finished product. Generally, the TUV LOGO DOES NOT APPEAR ON THE PACKAGING FOR THE PRODUCT.
2. If it is not practicable to exclude the TUV Logo from the packaging, then beyondGREEN may manufacture your packaging with the TUV Logo on it, but there must be a clearly visible disclaimer in the immediate vicinity1 of the TUV Logo that states “this logo refers to the packaged product and not the packaging.”
3. Regardless of whether the TUV Logo appears on the product or the packaging, it must be clear that beyondGREEN is the certified license holder and you must IN NO WAY IMPLY, CLAIM, OR LEAD CONSUMERS TO BELIEVE THAT YOU OR YOUR BRAND OWN THE CERTIFICATION.
1. For traceability reasons, any Bags that you order must include beyondGREEN’s TUV Logo with their personal S0560 Code on the finished product. Generally, the TUV LOGO DOES NOT APPEAR ON THE PACKAGING FOR THE PRODUCT.
2. If it is not practicable to exclude the TUV Logo from the packaging, then beyondGREEN may manufacture your packaging with the TUV Logo on it, but there must be a clearly visible disclaimer in the immediate vicinity1 of the TUV Logo that states “this logo refers to the packaged product and not the packaging.”
3. Regardless of whether the TUV Logo appears on the product or the packaging, it must be clear that beyondGREEN is the certified license holder and you must IN NO WAY IMPLY, CLAIM, OR LEAD CONSUMERS TO BELIEVE THAT YOU OR YOUR BRAND OWN THE CERTIFICATION.
1. For traceability reasons, any Bags that you order must include beyondGREEN’s TUV Logo with their personal S0560 Code on the finished product. Generally, the TUV LOGO DOES NOT APPEAR ON THE PACKAGING FOR THE PRODUCT.
2. If it is not practicable to exclude the TUV Logo from the packaging, then beyondGREEN may manufacture your packaging with the TUV Logo on it, but there must be a clearly visible disclaimer in the immediate vicinity1 of the TUV Logo that states “this logo refers to the packaged product and not the packaging.”
3. Regardless of whether the TUV Logo appears on the product or the packaging, it must be clear that beyondGREEN is the certified license holder and you must IN NO WAY IMPLY, CLAIM, OR LEAD CONSUMERS TO BELIEVE THAT YOU OR YOUR BRAND OWN THE CERTIFICATION.
For more information on Environmental Claims, please refer to
California Public Resources Code 42357.5(b).
California Public Resources Code 42355.
https://www.ftc.gov/sites/ /files/documents/federal_register_notices/guides-useenvironmental-marketing-claims-green-guides/greenguidesfrn.pdf (Green Guides);
California Business & Professions Code, and the California Public Resources Code.
