Purchasing Green Products

Our goal is to purchase items that contain recycled content except when the items are not available at a reasonable price or do not meet performance standards.

Environmentally preferable means products or services that have a smaller effect on human health and the environment when compared with competing products or services that serve the same purpose.

What are green products?

Green products are ideally:

• Reusable
• Recycled - containing post-consumer material or recovered material
• Recyclable - consisting of components that can be completely recycled
• Bio-based
• Bio-degradable
• Energy efficient
• Water or energy conserving
• Free of pollutants
• Packaged with minimal materials