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Nowadays, Environmentally Conscious Manufacturing (ECM) programs have been considered by many organizations from a strategic and competitive advantage point of view. Selection of ECM programs from the several proposed alternatives is a very important and difficult task. Decision makers are not limited to one Multi-attribute Decision Making method in critical conditions and several methods have been proposed for solving this problem. This study presents Polygons Area Method as a Multi-attribute Decision Making method for solving the ECM selection problem. The results of this method have been compared with other typical multiple attribute decision-making methods by giving an example. To find similarity in ranking given by different methods, Spearman’s rank correlation coefficients are obtained for different pairs of these methods. It was observed that the introduced method is in good agreement with other well-known multi-attribute decision making methods in the Environmentally Conscious Manufacturing program selection problem