EPEAT PURCHASING. State Electronics Challenge March 21, 2012

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1 EPEAT PURCHASING State Electronics Challenge March 21, 2012

2 State Electronics Challenge Procurement Requirements Have & promote procurement policies, directives, memoranda, &/or guidance to require, or give preference for EPEAT registered products. Ensure that 95% of computer desktops, laptops, & monitors purchased or leased this year are EPEAT registered products.

3 What is EPEAT? EPEAT has come to be the definitive global registry for greener electronics. to help everyone Designed who purchases electronics from consumers to enterprises evaluate, compare and select products that reduce environmental impact Contains 3,000+ products from 45+ manufacturers in 41 countries PRESENTATION TITLE Copyright 2011 Green Electronics Council

4 Two central constituencies Purchasers A uniform environmental performance rating to efficiently address environmental issues in purchasing specifications across electronic product categories Industry Clear, consistent environmental performance criteria for design of products and related services across multiple geographies. Opportunity for market recognition for efforts to reduce products environmental impacts.

5 What products does EPEAT cover? Currently: Desktops, laptops/notebooks, workstations, thin clients and displays Coming soon: Imaging equipment and televisions Up next: Servers and mobile devices PRESENTATION TITLE Copyright 2011 Green Electronics Council

6 Original EPEAT system development Multi-stakeholder process Extensive engagement of environmental advocates, manufacturers, private and public purchasers, technical experts, recyclers throughout standards development Developed with attention to both environmental impacts and market mechanisms Consensus reached on 51 lifecycle environmental performance criteria and the EPEAT system, embodied in IEEE 1680 standards Ongoing guidance of Advisory Council from all stakeholder groups PRESENTATION TITLE Copyright 2011 Green Electronics Council

7 Why was EPEAT created? Complexity of the product set purchasers struggle with definition of what constituted preferable, failed procurements due to the lack of uniform measures Supplier community s struggle with excess complexity: Proliferation of purchasing specs, information requests Proliferation of state level take back schemes Public Private Partnership interest in voluntary protocols, avoiding the inflexibility of regulatory approach Desire for market drivers to set clear direction, rewards

8 What is a product rated on? EPEAT s environmental criteria cover the complete product lifecycle from design to recycling. PRESENTATION TITLE Copyright 2011 Green Electronics Council

9 How are products rated in EPEAT? Products must meet all 23 required criteria to qualify for EPEAT. Products are rated Bronze, Silver or Gold based on how many optional criteria they meet. Green Greener Greenest PRESENTATION TITLE Copyright 2011 Green Electronics Council

10 Verification Approach Manufacturers: - Sign legal agreement to participate - Initially register under supervised desk review - Declare products as compliant with specific criteria - Some geographic variability for declarations - Must have specific verification evidence for all criteria Products/criteria routinely verified: - Representative selection of criteria/products - Conformance decided by independent panel blind to company - Ability to bring products into conformance after verification - Transparency - results published on website

11 How is EPEAT different from ENERGY STAR? ENERGY STAR covers energy efficiency. EPEAT s environmental criteria cover the complete product lifecycle. EPEAT-registered products meet anywhere from 21 to 42 other rigorous criteria in addition to the latest Energy Star standard. For more info: Energystar.gov PRESENTATION TITLE Copyright 2011 Green Electronics Council

12 Growth and influence

13 Growth to product registrations 3 to 50+ Manufacturers PRESENTATION TITLE Copyright 2011 Green Electronics Council

14 Representative Purchaser Users National Governments US, Canada, Australia, France, Poland, New Zealand, Singapore, Brazil, Costa Rica (Scotland) States/Provinces CA, CO, MA, ME, MI, MN, NY, OH, OR, PA, VT, WA, WI; Provinces of BC, NS, ON, QU; Warwickshire County (UK), Minas Gerais (Brazil), WSCA and US Communities collaboratives Cities San Francisco, Phoenix, San Jose, Vancouver, Seattle, Portland OR, LA County, Culver City CA, Keene NH, Leeds, UK Enterprise Catholic Healthcare West, Charles Schwab, Deutsche Bank, Fairmount Hotels, Ford Motor Company, HDR, HSBC, Kaiser Permanente, KPMG, Marriott, McKesson, Microsoft, NBC-Universal, Nike, Saint Gobain, Societe Generale Colleges/Universities Of 300+ universities and colleges surveyed, 190 used EPEAT in their electronics purchasing decisions; of those, 70 purchased exclusively EPEAT-registered products.

15 Recognition in sustainability systems LEED Existing Buildings (2 criteria) AASHE STARS certificate system (higher education) Green Guide for Health Care (GGHC) system Consortium on School Networking (K-12) Green IT certificate State Electronics Challenge Federal Electronics Challenge Practice Greenhealth Awards

16 EPEAT Environmental Benefits Worldwide, 2010 Metric Reduction Equivalents Electricity 9 million megawatt hours Annual electricity use of 757,416 average US households Primary Materials 16 million metric tons The weight of 48 Empire State Buildings Air Emissions (incl. GHG) 36 billion kg 36,263,127 Metric Tons Greenhouse Gas Emissions 1.6 million MTCE* 1,127,114 average US passenger cars off the road for a year Water Emissions 77 million kg 77,054 metric tons Toxic Materials (incl Hg) 1,156 metric tons Weight of 192 elephants, including Hg to fill 437,048 fever thermometers Solid Waste 31,992 metric tons 16,052 US households annual solid waste Hazardous Waste 59,525 metric tons The weight of 4 Eiffel Towers

17 Performance Category Example Required Optional Product-Specific Criteria Environmentally Sensitive Materials RoHS & beyond 3 8 Material Selection Recycled content 3 3 Design for End-of-life Ease of recycling 6 5 Product Longevity/Lifecycle Extension Warranties, spare parts 2 2 Energy Conservation ENERGY STAR & beyond 1 3 Packaging Recyclable, recycled content 3 4 Corporate Criteria End-of-life Management Take-back and recycling 2 1 Corporate Performance EMS, environmental policy, report 3 2 Overall Total Number of Criteria 23 28

18 US Government EPEAT Commitment Federal Acquisition Regulations agencies must ensure that they meet at least 95 percent of their annual acquisition requirement for electronic products with Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool (EPEAT)-registered electronic products, unless there is no EPEAT standard for such products. FAR

19 How do I find out what products are on the registry? Search the registry at EPEAT.net Make head-to-head comparisons by manufacturer, country, rating tier and criteria. PRESENTATION TITLE Copyright 2011 Green Electronics Council

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23 Model purchasing language All desktops, laptops, and computer monitors provided under this contract are required to have achieved Bronze registration or higher in the EPEAT system in [COUNTRY]. EPEAT is a procurement tool designed to help large volume purchasers evaluate, compare, and select electronic products based upon their environmental attributes as specified in the consensus-based IEEE Standard for the Environmental Assessment of Personal Computer Products (IEEE ). [Purchaser] will prefer products that have achieved EPEAT Silver or EPEAT Gold registration. The EPEAT registration criteria and a database of all registered products are provided at

24 Supplier EPEAT Reporting Suppliers are required to provide [quarterly/semiannual/annual] reporting on the number of EPEAT registered products purchased under this contract. For each piece of equipment sold, EPEAT Registration Status (i.e. Bronze, Silver, Gold or Unregistered) must be provided. The information must be reported in aggregate in a matrix providing the following data: Product type EPEAT Gold EPEAT Silver Desktops Notebooks Integrated Systems Workstations Displays Thin client EPEAT Bronze Unrated

25 NOTE: ENERGY STAR and EPEAT Products registered in EPEAT must meet the latest ENERGY STAR specification for their type Configuration changes can cause products to no longer comply with ENERGY STAR When changing basic configs or creating an image, consult with your supplier or directly with the manufacturer to ensure you do not void ENERGY STAR compliance Requesting/requiring provision of product ID numbers can help you ensure you are only choosing compliant products

26 Thank you! Prepared with funding from the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative & Samsung, Panasonic, Sims Recycling Solutions, the Consumer Electronics Association, Metech Recycling, & ISRI R2/RIOS PRESENTATION TITLE Copyright 2011 Green Electronics Council

27 Contact information Sarah O Brien Director, Outreach and Communications +1 (802) (EST) sarah.obrien@greenelectronicscouncil.org