Green Products From GSA Global Supply

GSA Global Supply is committed to helping its customers achieve sustainability goals. More than a decade ago, we stopped offering virgin copier paper and offered only products with recycled content. Now, in the wake of Executive Order 13514, we are continuing to strengthen our environmental product offering.

More than 4,400 products with “green” attributes are available from GSA Global Supply and that number continues to grow. These items include office supplies, cleaning products, tools and even safety gear. A few examples of the most popular green items include:

It’s worth noting that our commitment to sustainability also reinforces our support for the AbilityOne program that provides employment for more than 40,000 people who are blind or have other severe disabilities. In 2011, approximately half of GSA Global Supply’s sales for green items came from products that originated in AbilityOne agencies.

GSA Global Supply has also participated in a broad effort to update the list of icons (symbols) that will be used to denote green items online at www.gsaglobalsupply.gsa.gov, www.gsaadvantage.gsa.gov and in future catalogs and brochures. The refreshed list of icons helps potential users understand product attributes and how they satisfy legislative or program requirements.

The changes we have made are part of an agencywide effort to support sustainability in the federal government. You can learn more about GSA’s sustainability plan or its Green Purchasing Plan. The latter is specifically tied to EO 13514’s requirement that 95 percent of all purchases of products and services be sustainable.