Environmentally Preferable Purchasing in Environmental Systems
How can you include environmentally preferable purchasing
in your site's Environmental Management System?
- Set a goal to include the purchase of environmentally
preferable products in your site's Environmental Management
System and transition to at least one such product a year
- Survey your organization's purchasing and resulting waste
- Recognize that products purchased today often become tomorrow's
environmental management problems
- Identify mechanisms for buying environmental products
o Credit card purchases - Statements of work
o Service contracts - Requests for proposal
o Electronic catalogs
- Conduct pilot projects
- Evaluate progress and renew efforts according to results
- Communicate benefits
For further information on including environmentally preferable
purchasing in your site's Environmental Management System,
see the
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