Bay Area Haz Waste Committee

Buying Green...Buying Smart Part II
Held October 20, 2010, at the MetroCenter Auditorium, Oakland, CA

Buying Green...Buying Smart Conference Summary
Held March 18, 2009, at the MetroCenter Auditorium, Oakland, CA

Environmentally Preferable Purchasing (EPP), according to EPA is "adding environmental considerations to purchasing decisions along with such traditional factors as performance, price, health, and safety."

The Environmentally Preferable Purchasing (EPP) program was established by EPA in response to President Clinton’s 1998 Executive Order 13101 [PDF document (94.9 KB)] on Greening the Government Through Waste Prevention, Recycling, and Federal Acquisition. EPA has published an introduction to Environmentally Preferable Purchasing (EPP) Programs entitled "Promoting Green Purchasing: Tools and Resources to Quantify the Benefits of Environmentally Preferable Purchasing." This compilation of tools and resources will be useful to any organization trying to estimate the environmental and economic benefits of both past and projected EPP choices.
www.epa.gov/epp/tools/epp_metrics.pdf

For information on California's EPP program, visit the California EPP Website

Stopwaste .org has a wealth of information for local governments on EPP.
Visit Stopwaste.Org EPP Info

Some local governments that have adopted EPP ordinances and / or have EPP policies are:

San Francisco, CA

• Environmentally Preferable Purchasing Ordinance
• Approved Green Products

• Procurement Policies, 2001

• Procurement Policies, 2001

• Purchasing Policy

• Green Procurement and Sustainable Practices Policy

• Environmental Preferable Purchasing Model Policy, 2003

• Procurement Policy, 2003

• Recycling and Procurement Ordinances

• Low Environmental Impact Cleaning Policy

• Environmental Procurement Policy
• Green Cleaning Product Procurement Policies, Initiatives and Requirements in the U.S., ISSA

• Procurement Strategy Resolution
• Paint or Paper Procurement Policy

• Buying Green: Sustainable Procurement at the City of Portland

• Sustainable Purchasing Policy Guidelines

• Recycling Procurement Policy

• Seattle Municipal Code - recycled content product procurement
• Codes & Resolutions - Environmental Purchasing
• Sustainable Purchasing Policy

• Recycled Product Procurement Policy