Eco-accounting infrastructure supported by Information and Communication Technologies

The eco-accounts can be used to indicate either enterprise's and individual consumer's eco-footprints. The eco-account consists of co-cost and eco-credits. The ‘eco-cot’ to show the customer’s/enterprise's negative ecological impact resulted from the products purchased production, ‘eco-credit’ to credit customer's/enterprise's positive behaviour such recycling end-of-life products and sustainable production. In order to obtain the data, the Information and communication technology (ICT) is required to collect dynamic data for the calculation of eco-point, and then make them accessible for all stakeholders along the value chain, from one operation model to another.