"Environmentally Preferable"
Products that have a lesser or reduced effect on human health and the environment when compared with competing products that serve the same purpose. This comparison may consider raw materials acquisition, production, manufacturing, packaging, distribution, reuse, operation, maintenance, or disposal of the product.
Federal Executive Order 13423: Strengthening Federal Environmental, Energy, and Transportation Management (2007)
- Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
- Environmentally Preferable Purchasing
- Comprehensive Procurement Guidelines
- A list of products that must contain recycled content when purchased by federal agencies and those that use appropriated federal funds
- Energy Star
- Office of the Federal Environmental Executive (OFEE)
Responsible Purchasing Network Purchasing Guides
EPA’s Final Guidance on Environmentally Preferable Purchasing
EPA’s Environmentally Preferable Purchasing Training Tool
- National Association of Counties (NACo)
- Environmentally Preferable Purchasing Program Toolkit
- State of California - Green California
- Environmentally Purchasing Best Practices Manual
State of Minnesota Solid Waste Management Coordinating Board
Environmental Preferable Purchasing Guide
City and County of San Francisco Environmental Purchasing Ordinance
King County, Washington Environmentally Preferable Procurement
City of Santa Monica, California Recycled Product Procurement
City of Seattle Environmentally Responsible Purchasing
State of North Carolina Environmentally Preferable Procurement
Alameda County Waste Management Authority
California Integrated Waste Management Board Buy Recycled Program
City and County of San Francisco Environmentally Preferable Purchasing
City of Seattle Office of Environmental Management Green Purchasing
State of Massachusetts Operational Services Division Environmentally Preferable Products Procurement
State of Minnesota Office of Environmental Assistance Environmental Purchasing resources
City of Santa Monica - Sustainable City Program
EPA’s - Environmentally Preferable Purchasing
State of Pennsylvania - Governor's Green Government Council
Multnomah County, Oregon - Sustainability Program
- BioCycle
- c/o JG Press
- 419 State Avenue
- Emmaus, PA 18049
- E-mail: Biocycle@jgpress.com
- Composting and recycling; monthly magazine.
- Environmental Building News
- 122 Birge Street, Suite 30
- Brattleboro, VT 05301
- 802/257-7300 phone
- E-mail: info@buildinggreen.com
- Environmentally-aware construction, bi-monthly magazine.
- Recycling Today
- 4012 Bridge Avenue
- Cleveland, OH 44113-3320
- (800)456-0707
- General recycling industry issues, monthly magazine.
- Resource Recycling
- P.O. Box 42270
- Portland, OR 97242-0270
- (503) 233-1305 voice
- E-mail: info@resource-recycling.com
- General recycling issues, markets, equipment and products, monthly magazine.
- Sustainable Industries Journal (SIJ)
- Celilo Group Media
3941 SE Hawthorne Blvd.
Portland, OR 97214
503-226-7798 PH
TOLL FREE: 800-433-9301
- EPPNET - Environmentally Preferable Procurement Network
- managed by the Northeast Recycling Council
To join, visit their website and sign-up.
Waste Prevention Forum
- To Subscribe, send an e-mail to tom.watson@metrokc.gov
- National Waste Prevention Coalition Website
Third Party Certifiers
- Scientific Certification Systems (SCS)
- The company's environmental section certifies manufacturers' environmental claims — biodegradability, recycled content, water efficiency and no-smog-producing-ingredients.
- Green Seal
- This U.S. non-profit sets environmental standards for products and awards a seal of approval to those products meeting their standards.
- Environmental Choice Program – Canada
- A Canadian Federal government program that is run by an independent company. They develop environmental standards for products and permit their ecologo to be used on products that meet their standards.
- American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM)
- ASTM is one of the largest voluntary standards development organizations in the world. ASTM develops standard test methods, specifications, practices, guides, classifications and terminology in 130 areas.
- Chlorine Free Products Association
- Certifies mills that produce chlorine free paper
- Forest Stewardship Council (FSC)
- This is an international labeling program for forest products, which certifies that the product comes from a forest that meets internationally recognized standards.
- GreenGuard
- Indoor Air Quality
- EPEAT - Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool
- EPEAT is a procurement tool to help institutional purchasers in the public and private sectors evaluate, compare and select desktop computers, notebooks and monitors based on their environmental attributes. EPEAT is operated by the Green Electronics Council
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Updated: September, 2007
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