The Prime Minister’s speech to the nation on the 13th February 2007, signaled a very clear message to the entire Public Sector procurement administration.
Businesses that provide sustainable goods and services under the Government’s own Environmental Choice NZ ecolabel will get purchasing preference. Spending $6b annually makes the value of having this prestigious ecolabel accreditation a powerful tool for all Public Sector contracts.
EcoCover is at this time, the only mulch in the world to own an ecolabel license and we believe what has been achieved by EcoCover in New Zealand in securing this license, can also be achieved with similar ecolabel organisations around the world.
Click the link below to view Letters from the desk’s of both the Minister of Commerce and the Minister for the Environmentreleased 13th February, 2006.
Governments throughout the western world are quickly moving in this direction.