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Environmental Initiative
The AbilityOne Program understands the problems faced by federal contracting
and acquisition professionals, as well as purchase card holders,
when dealing with what appear to be conflicting mandatory purchasing
requirements. While AbilityOne is a mandatory source of supply, there
are also legal mandates to purchase recycled content products under
the Resources Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) section 6002,
and other environmentally preferable and biobased requirements spelled
out in Executive Order 13101: "Greening the Government through Waste
Prevention, Recycling and Federal Acquisition."
Instead of being an obstacle to effective environmental procurement,
AbilityOne decided to become a solution. In so doing, the AbilityOne Program
embarked on a number of initiatives designed to ensure that, to
the highest degree possible, AbilityOne products and services are our
customers' choice when it comes to meeting the environmentally desirable
criteria, qualities and attributes they demand. For the AbilityOne Program,
the federal environmental initiative is yet another vehicle to create
and maintain jobs for individuals who are blind or have other severe
disabilities. In supporting green initiatives, AbilityOne-participating
nonprofit agencies and their employees play a key role in helping
the government accomplish its mission of creating cleaner, healthier,
safer workplaces for Federal employees and contractors. It makes
good sense, good business and good government.
For more information about AbilityOne's Environmental initiative, please contact
Joan Smith at jsmith@abilityone.gov
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