– TCO Certified basics
Build trust in your sustainability efforts with TCO Certified
IT products come with a number of sustainability challenges throughout their life cycle. As a brand owner, working proactively with environmental and social issues is a necessity, and TCO Certified helps you communicate your progress in a credible way.
Complete certification that can be used worldwide
TCO Certified covers all of today’s most crucial sustainability challenges. Criteria are comprehensive and include both environmental and social responsibility throughout the IT product life cycle. The certification can be used globally and requirements are harmonized worldwide, which is easier and more efficient for both purchasers and the IT industry.
Independent verification ensures fair competition
With TCO Certified, compliance with all criteria is verified by independent, accredited experts. This ensures fair competition in procurements and leaves no shortcuts for competitors. Verification is mandatory and continuous — it is carried out both before and after certification, throughout the certificate’s validity period.
Makes sustainability progress easier
Finding sustainability issues is only the first step on the way to more sustainable practices. We detect issues, and make sure that they are solved. Our system for verification and continuous improvement helps you structure your work with sustainability, and guides you to more sustainable ways of working.
Allows you to make trustworthy sustainability claims
When purchasing organizations ask for TCO Certified, they know what they get. All criteria are mandatory, which means that certified products must meet all criteria for its product category. Committing to a certification without loopholes allows you to take pride in the sustainability work you do, and that your clients can trust your claims about sustainability.
12 product categories
The certification is available for 12 product categories: displays, notebooks, tablets, smartphones, desktops, all-in-one PCs, projectors, headsets, imaging equipment, network equipment, data storage products and servers.
A third-party certification compliant with ISO 14024
TCO Certified is a third-party certification independent of the IT industry and buyers. TCO Certified meets the requirements of ISO 14024 Ecolabel Type 1 and has been approved by the Global Ecolabelling Network. All verification is carried out by independent verification organizations in accordance with ISO 17025, the international standard for competence requirements applied to testing and calibration laboratories.
