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So it would definitely need to be category specific but I do think this could be a hugely interesting idea for organic products etc
by melomal 5y ago
So it would definitely need to be category specific but I do think this could be a hugely interesting idea for organic products etc
- bttrfl 5y agoI'd love a dual, absolute/category, scale to make my decisioning easier. If something is green on an absolute scale then it's a smaller problem if I pick a product labeled red on on category scale. But I do know that I shouldn't do that. Dual scale would make it possible to differentiate between two similar products - an "eco" cotton bag could be orange/green while a single plastic use bag could green/red. This way every one would know that an eco bag is worse than a plastic one unless you use it a lot. Finally, producers would be motivated to optimise environmental impact of all kinds of products because having a red label would be shameful.
- melomal 5y agoThe traffic light system is used in the UK to show how much sugar/salt/fat is in the product. To be honest it shocked me to see so much red for salt so it definitely was eye opening. The issue with this, that I can now see, is that it would take government action to make this a requirement. But I can see that there would definitely be a benefit for education the customer.