Shopper guide

Reading sourcing and sustainability information

Product listings may include seller-entered material names, sourcing descriptions, sustainability wording, and supporting details. This guide explains how to read those fields. Listing wording and evidence are shown as supplied; their presence does not mean a claim was independently verified by the marketplace.

Materials

Material names are the names entered for a listing, with any associated evidence text. A material name by itself does not establish its origin, proportion in the product, certification, or environmental impact.

Sourcing information

This is the seller’s description of where or how a product or its materials were sourced. What it tells you depends on the details the seller supplied.

Sustainability wording

This is wording entered by the seller about a product’s sustainability. It is not a marketplace-wide score or a uniform standard, and broad words such as “sustainable” are not a certification by themselves.

Evidence

Evidence is the detail or reference supplied alongside a material, sourcing, or sustainability claim. Seeing evidence text or a document reference does not by itself mean that the marketplace independently verified the claim.

Not provided

This means the listing contains no information for that field. Treat the answer as unknown from the listing; missing information is not proof for or against a claim.