Kyoto Club Withdraws Cartridge Ecolabel

July 8, 2026

Ecolabel body Kyotoclub / Multieticchetta Elabel! ends certification of cartridges and withdraws the label granted to SEA

This month, the Italian ecolabel organisation Kyoto Club decided to no longer certify remanufactured toner and inkjet cartridges for printers, copiers, multifunctional printing devices under the Multieticchetta Elablel! program. Also, licenses on remanufactured toner and inkjet cartridges currently active under the program have been revoked following an assessment by the competent certification body. This concerns the remanufactured toner cartridge product line, produced by S.E.A. s.r.l.    Full details can be found here:

ETIRA welcomes this decision. To have credibility, ecolables, in particular Type-1 ecolables, must have full and proper auditing criteria in place, and these must be strictly enforced. Without it, free riders who falsely claim compliance with the ecolabel criteria win government procurement contracts, while honest firms lose out, and customers are tricked into thinking they buy eco-friendly products, when in reality they receive single-use, cheap, polluting knock-offs. Already a long time ago, ETIRA asked Kyoto Club to reassess the Elablel! certification of SEA products. Following the revocation of the SEA label, ETIRA now asks that all contracts granted using the SEA certification be revisited.