# Presentation: 455415

## Greening Electronics Procurement with EPEATTM  

- Federal Environmental Symposium
- Holly Elwood, EPA
- June 3, 2008

## Agenda

**Why Focus on Electronics?**
**What is EPEAT?**
**How Successful Has EPEAT Been to Date? **
**How Can I Buy EPEAT Registered Products?**
**Next Steps for EPEAT**

## Why Focus on Electronics?

## Why Focus on Electronics?

**Energy use/costs**
**Major contributor to solid waste stream**
**Can contain toxic and/or hazardous substances - potential harm to public health and the environment if disposed improperly**
**Big purchasers have big influence on market**
**All stakeholders wanted to collaborate**

## What is EPEATTM?

## What is EPEATTM?

- An easy to use environmental procurement tool designed to help institutional purchasers compare and select desktop computers, laptops and monitors based on their environmental attributes.

**Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool**

**Notes:**
Suggestion – Delete “in the public and private sectors”

## What is the EPEATTM System?

- Standard comprised of 51 environmental performance criteria (IEEE 1680 American National Standard for the Environmental Assessment of Personal Computer Products)
- 2) System for identifying and verifying products which meet these criteria (_[www.epeat.net](http://www.epeat.net/)__) _
- 3) Environmental Benefits Calculator

## EPEATTM Environmental Performance Categories

**Environmentally Sensitive Materials**
**Materials Selection**
**Design for End of Life**
**Product Longevity/Life Cycle Extension**
**Energy Conservation**
**End of Life Management**
**Corporate Performance**
**Packaging**

## EPEATTM Tiers

**EPEAT****TM**** ****Tiers**

**Meets all 23 required criteria**

**Meets all required criteria plus 1⁄2 of optional**

**Meets all required criteria plus 3⁄4  of optional**

**Notes:**
Products can acheive an EPEAT Bronze, Silver, or Gold registration level based on the number of subcriteria under the 8 environmental performance categories that they meet.

## EPEATTM Verification Process

-  Like ENERGY STAR®** **
-  Companies:
- Sign MOU to participate
- Register products as compliant
- Must meet specific verification for all  criteria
-  Products routinely scrutinized:
-  Products verified after registration
-  Verification focuses on:
-  a single attribute or set of attributes across all products
-  all attributes within a single product or a subset of all products

## EPEATTM Current Product Focus

**Computer**
**Desktops**
**Laptops**
**Monitors**

**Notes:**
Just to remind everyone, the current focus of EPEAT is computer desktops, laptops and monitors.  These are the products that our current standard covers. 

## How Successful Has EPEATTM Been to Date?

## EPEATTM Registered Products(as of 5/15/08)

| EPEAT Registered Products Search Tool |  |  |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Product |               |                |                | 

Total |
| Desktops | 4 | 59 | 40 | 103 |
| Integrated Systems | 0 | 11 | 0 | 11 |
| Monitors | 19 | 280 | 12 | 311 |
| Notebooks | 4 | 130 | 14 | 148 |
| Totals | 27 | 480 | 66 | 573 |

## 25 Participating Manufacturers

**25 Participating Manufacturers**

**Apple**
**CIARA-TECH**
**CTL**
**Dell**
**Enano Computers**
**Fujitsu Computer Systems Corporation**
**Fujitsu Siemens Computers GmbH**
**GETAC**
**HP**
**Hyundai IT America**
**Lenovo**
**LG Electronics**
**MDG Computers Canada Inc.**
**MPC Computers**

**NCS Technologies**
**NEC Display **
**Northern Micro**
**Panasonic**
**Philips Electronics**
**Prosys Tech Corporation**
**Samsung**
**Sony Electronics**
**Toshiba**
**Transource**
**Viewsonic**
**Zonbu**

- As of 5/15/2008

## Requirements For Feds to Buy EPEATTM Registered Electronics

- EPEAT**©**** **is now in the FAR:
**23.705 Electronic products environmental assessment tool. **
- (a) *General*. As required by E.O. 13423, 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. This policy applies to contracts performed in the United States, unless otherwise provided by agency procedures.

## Buying EPEAT© registered products directly impacts Agency OMB Environmental Scorecard Ratings
EPEAT requirements being integrated into OMB IT Optimization Plans

- EPEAT requirements being integrated into OMB IT Optimization Plans

**Requirements For Feds to Buy ****EPEAT****TM**** Registered Electronics**

## View the full list of users at  www.epeat.net/RFP.aspx

- Feds Using EPEAT**TM**** **

| Department of Defense, Army | $15.0B |
| --- | --- |
| Department of Homeland Security | $6.024B |
| NASA SEWP IV GWAC | $15.0B |
| NASA ODIN Contract | $.100B |
| GSA Alliant GWAC | $5.0B |
| Department of Energy | $0.4B |
| Department of the Interior | $0.2B |
| Department of Transportation | $0.04B |
| Environmental Protection Agency | $0.04B |
| Executive Office of the President | $0.007B |
| TOTAL | $41.81B |

**Notes:**
Visit www.epeat.net and look under the purchasing resources tab for the latest information for this slide.

## EPEATTM Success: Others Using EPEAT

**Baxter Healthcare**
**Concurrent Technologies **
**California**
**Canada**
**Kaiser Permanente**
**Maine **
**Minnesota**
**New York**
**New Zealand Department of Defense**
**Premier, Inc.**
**San Jose, California**
**University of California**
**Wisconsin**

**Notes:**
Many non-Federal purchasers have also begun buying EPEAT registered products - from large Fortune 500s to cities and state goverments.  

Kaiser Permanente bought $4 billion dollars worth of EPEAT registered products to put an EPEAT registered computer in every one of their hospital rooms across the country. 

## EPEATTM  Environmental Benefits of 2007 Reported Federal Sales

| Environmental Benefit | Reduction Achievement | Equivalent to |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Energy savings
(from ENERGY STAR) | 505 Million kWh | Electricity for 44,513
 U.S. homes for one year |
| Primary material savings | 902,000 metric tons | Weight of 7 million refrigerators |
| Greenhouse gas emission savings
(from ENERGY STAR)
 | Almost 40,000 metric tons of carbon equivalent (CE) | Removing 31,450 passenger 
 |
| Air emission savings
(from ENERGY STAR)
 | 2.08 million metric tons |  |
| Water emission savings	 | 4,361 metric tons |  |
| Toxic material savings |  34,600 kilograms | Weight of 17,289 bricks, including equivalent of 5,551 mercury thermometers |
| Hazardous waste savings | 1,290 metric tons | Weight of 644,857 million bricks |

***( ******1/1/07 – 12/30/07 Vs Conventional Products *****)**

**cars from the road for 1year**

## How Can I Buy EPEATTM Registered Products?

## Buying EPEATTM   Registered Products

- 1. New/existing BPAs, contracts or leases:
- Use model contract language to reflect new FAR requirement and require EPEAT registered products
- Use list of EPEAT registered products at _[www.epeat.net](http://www.epeat.net/)_ in market research, to determine EPEAT level to require
- Require vendors to report number of EPEAT registered products purchased quarterly
- Block non EPEAT registered products on e-catalogs
- 2. Government Wide Acquisition Contracts (GWACs)
-     (NASA SEWP IV, NIH ECS III)
- Specify you want EPEAT products in every task order
- Ask them to block EPEAT registered products in e-catalogs
- If not possible, ask them to identify EPEAT registered products in e-catalogs
- 3. Resellers who identify EPEAT registered products
-    (Softchoice, Mooring Tech, Inc, Need These)
- Resellers who don’t identify EPEAT registered products
- 	  - Ask them to indicate EPEAT products
- 	  - Directions and resources located at:    _[http://www.epeat.net/ParticipatingResellers.aspx](http://www.epeat.net/ParticipatingResellers.aspx)_

## FAR Required EPEATTM Contract Language

- “(b) Under this contract, the Contractor shall deliver, furnish for Government use, or furnish for contractor use at a Government-owned facility, only personal computer products that at the time of submission of proposals were EPEAT Bronze registered or higher. Bronze is the first level discussed in clause 1.4 of the IEEE 1680 Standard for the Environmental Assessment of Personal Computer Products.
- (c) For information about the standard, see www.epeat.net.”
*OR*
*Alternate I (Dec 2007)*. As prescribed in 23.706(b)(2), substitute the following paragraph (b) for paragraph (b) of the basic clause:
- “(b) Under this contract, the Contractor shall deliver, furnish for Government use, or furnish for contractor use at a Government-owned facility, only personal computer products that at the time of submission of proposals were EPEAT Silver registered or higher. Silver is the second level discussed in clause 1.4 of the IEEE 1680 Standard for the Environmental Assessment of Personal Computer Products”

## Recommended Language For New Contracts (cont’d)

- Suppliers are required to block non-EPEAT registered products on their electronic catalogs that customers may buy from through this contract.
- Suppliers are required to provide quarterly reports quantifying the number of EPEAT registered products purchased under this contract. The information must be reported in a matrix providing the following data for the current quarter, the fiscal year, and the duration of the contract.

## Recommended Language For New Contracts - Reporting

|  | Unregistered | Bronze | Silver | Gold | Total |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Desktops |  |  |  |  |  |
| Laptops |  |  |  |  |  |
| Integrated Systems |  |  |  |  |  |
| Monitors |  |  |  |  |  |

## Next Steps for EPEATTM 

## Long Term Strategy for EPEATTM

- Update existing computer standard
- Maintain and expand Electronics Environmental Benefits Calculator
- Develop new standards for four new electronic products

## EPEATTM Next Products

**EPEAT****TM**** Next Products**

**EPEAT solicited input from stakeholders to  identify and prioritize the next product sets **
**The four priority product categories are:**
**Imaging Products (Printers, copiers, etc.)**
**TVs**
**Servers **
**Handhelds (cell phones, PDAs, etc.) **

## EPEATTM  Next Products

- Develop standards for:

| Imaging Equipment | Held Scoping Meeting 2/20, 2/21 in SF
Begin Summer 2008 |
| --- | --- |
| TVs | Holding Scoping meeting 4/21 in DC 
Begin Summer 2008 |
| Servers | Begin after first two standards completed |
| Cell Phones | Begin after first two standards completed |

**Notes:**
So far there has been general consensus of opinion that EPEAT should develop standards for the following product categories:

- Imaging Equipment 
- TVs
- Servers
- Mobile Devices (cell phones, PDAs)

## For Further Info on EPEATTM 

- _[www.epeat.net](http://www.epeat.net/)_
- Holly Elwood
-    EPA HQ Lead on EPEAT
-    _[Elwood.holly@epa.gov](mailto:Elwood.holly@epa.gov)_
-    202-564-8854