Title :
Acquisition of environmentally preferable products and services
Author :
Goidel, Eun-Sook ; Shoaff, John
Author_Institution :
Office of Pollution Prevention & Toxics, US Environ. Protection Agency, Washington, DC, USA
Abstract :
The paper presents a brief narrative of EPA´s approach in responding to the “environmentally preferable products” provisions of section 503 of Executive Order 12873. It discusses the development of a guidance for the acquisition of environmentally preferable products which recommends general principles to consider when determining environmental preferability as well as proposes implementation through product-specific pilot acquisitions. A pilot involving the federal procurement of computers is planned. The approach taken, current status and next steps for this pilot are detailed
Keywords :
computer purchase; computer selection; environmental factors; performance evaluation; socio-economic effects; EPA; computer acquisition; current status; environmentally preferable products; federal procurement; product-specific pilot acquisitions; Costs; Environmental economics; Laboratories; Pollution; Procurement; Protection; Recycling; US Government;
Conference_Titel :
Electronics and the Environment, 1995. ISEE., Proceedings of the 1995 IEEE International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Orlando, FL
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-2137-5
DOI :
10.1109/ISEE.1995.514987
