Home Depot Launches 'Eco Options' Label (VIDEO)

Wednesday on CNBC CFO Carol Tome discussed the launch of Home Depot's Eco Options label, which appears on 3,700 products. According to the company, the purpose of Eco Options is to identify products that have less environmental impact than competing brands.

Watch to the end of the video to see the anchors awkwardly plug General Electric, CNBC's parent company.

To find out more about Eco Options, visit Home Depot's website. However, to find out what the requirements are for products to get the Eco Option seal is not clearly stated on the website.

Comments

[winterfield]

11:46 AM on 09/29/2009

What's the Chinese/English translation for "Eco Options"? Boy, this ought to be good. Try to find a product at HD that is made in America and dosen't break in the first week.

[balancedsolution]

11:12 AM on 09/21/2009

You have to do something when you have no customers.

Keep the employees moving!

[balancedsolution]

02:15 PM on 09/19/2009

You could say that about Home Depot, Lowes, Costco, Walmart, Best Buy, and every other big retailer.

Welcome to the United States of Corporate America.

[leevntheus]

12:14 PM on 09/19/2009

If it has anything to do with Home Depot, it is a scam. Home Depot should be outlawed. The sheer force of their size in communities dries up local small businesses and forces all but the most affluent neighbors into limited low value choices of products, and, worse yet, services.

Home Depot's effect on local trades is devastating, forcing out small shops and mom&pops, and creating a "sub contracting" mechanism that entrenches the Depot as the middleman while decreasing income to the tradesman. Think Wal Mart, but add to it a giant sucking sound that is the Home Depot monopolizing all the flooring, roofing, windows/siding, painting, plumbing, electrical, cleaning work in each community utilizing undocumented and unlicensed contractors to the detriment of local citizen small businesses.

There used to be laws, state by state, and at the Federal level to stop this sort of thing, but hey, thanks RONNIE.

[progressiveguy100]

10:21 AM on 09/18/2009

Sounds like nothing more than a marketing ploy to me.

[entropyisfun]

11:54 PM on 09/17/2009

Eco-Consumerism. It's like rape with a condom on.

[thundermummy]

10:50 AM on 09/18/2009

LOL. Sad. True. But LOL anyway.

[obama20082012]

11:12 PM on 09/17/2009

I wonder how many of these products are made in China?

[wdw505]

01:04 AM on 09/18/2009

all of them