Rated E - EPEAT
(Room Pacific 2)
20 Feb 20
9:30 AM
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10:45 AM
During this session, representatives from the State of California, Department of General Services (DGS) will outline how use of EPEAT, the leading global Type-1 ecolabel for IT products, helped them to meet their sustainability goals and how other CA jurisdictions can leverage state-wide IT contracts to purchase more efficient and sustainable IT products. The DGS purchased more than 80,000 sustainable EPEAT-rated IT products through its statewide portfolio of IT hardware contracts in 2018. These purchases resulted in substantial avoided environmental impacts and more than $3.1M in documented cost savings for California taxpayers.
The session will also include a presentation from the Green Electronics Council (GEC), the organization that maintains the EPEAT Program. GEC staff will talk about the attributes of a best-practice ecolabel, and various free and publicly available tools designed to help institutional purchaser along their sustainable procurement journey.
Representatives from CA’s EPP program and staff from GEC will present upon the following topics:
• Why use of the EPEAT ecolabel embodies a sustainable purchasing best-practice.
• How the state of California DGS was able to embed EPEAT in its state-wide procurements.
• An overview and demonstration of the GEC EPEAT Benefits Calculator, which offers purchasers the ability to quantify the life cycle environmental and cost savings associated with their purchase of EPEAT products.
• How other CA jurisdictions can also benefit from use of EPEAT when they leverage CA’s statewide contracts to purchase EPEAT products.
EPEAT Purchases made in 2018 resulted in the following avoided environmental impacts:
• Reduced use of primary materials by 8,886 metric tons, equivalent to the weight of 1,709 elephants
• Avoided the disposal of 76 metric tons of hazardous waste, equal to the weight of 627 refrigerators
• Eliminated the equivalent of 211 U.S. households’ solid waste for a year—392 metric tons
• Avoided 55 metric tons of water pollutant emissions
• Saved 30,508 MWh of electricity—enough to power 2,511 U.S. households for a year
• Reduced greenhouse gas emissions by 17,882 metric tons of CO2 equivalents—equal to taking 3,829 average U.S. passenger cars off the road for a year.