The phrase environmentally friendly is used to refer to goods or services considered to inflict little harm on the environment. The phrase has been in common usage for at least 20 years and is often added to product advertising or packaging to promote a sale.

It also means "being friendly to the environment". For example, you can be environmentally friendly by recycling, or by being "green", as people call it. There are also many organisations that associate themselves with the term, such as Greenpeace.

In pest control, integrated pest management is regarded as more environmentlly friendly than traditional pesticide use, as its goal is to reduce pesticide use to a minimum by using a variety of less impactive means, with pesticides only as the last resort. More recently, the development of biological pest control methods are an effort to go a further step to being environmentally friendly.

See also

• Organic food
• Sustainable agriculture

Environmental sayings