# Presentation: 798439

## Progress of Electronics Stewardship at Sandia National Laboratories

**Progress of Electronics Stewardship at Sandia National Laboratories**
- June 5, 2007
**Ralph Wrons**
- Pollution Prevention Program Coordinator
- Sandia National Laboratories, NM** **

- Sandia is a multiprogram laboratory operated by Sandia Corporation, a Lockheed Martin Company,for the United States Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration under contract DE-AC04-94AL85000.

## Sandia National Laboratories

- NM & CA Sites, about 7M GSF
- Non-proliferation of nuclear, chemical and biological weapons
- Critical energy infrastructures
- Homeland security
- Collaborates with industry, universities & other government agencies to commercialize new technologies
- _[http://](http://www.sandia.gov/)__[www.sandia.gov](http://www.sandia.gov/)__[/](http://www.sandia.gov/)_

**Sandia National Laboratories**

## Purpose 

- FEC Partner goals
- Purchasing
- Operations
- Disposal
- Current Efforts

##  FEC Partner Goals: 2006

**Joined February 2006**
**First year goals:**
**Vendors supply equipment with “Sleep” feature enabled**
**“****Sleep” features enabled on 100% of existing monitors**
**Default to 2-side printing at copiers and network printers** (ongoing)
**Recycle 100% of non-reusable computers**

**Notes:**
Could not find precedent set for this, so it was not pursued

## Estimated impact – purchase, operations and disposal 

**FY06 purchases: $34.4M ($67M in FY05)**
**Estimated in service:**
**20,000 desktop systems (6300 desktops purchased in FY06)**
**5000 laptops**
**4000 additional monitors**
**30 months lifetime**
**Estimated consumption:**
**~13M kWh/yr, ~$518,000**

## Purchasing

**CRTs out, LCDs in – Energy Star compliant**
**FY06: Spent over $7.5 million to purchase:**
**2,822 desktop systems, 989 laptops, and additional 602 monitors, all of which are registered as EPEAT-Silver**
**Preference for EPEAT Bronze or higher in JIT computer contract language**

**Notes:**
All desktops, laptops, and computer monitors provided under this
    contract are recommended to have achieved Bronze registration or
    higher under the Electronic Products Environmental Assessment
    Tool (EPEAT). EPEAT is a procurement tool designed to help large
    volume purchasers evaluate, compare, and select desktop
    computers, laptops, and monitors based upon their environmental
    attributes as specified in the consensus-based IEEE Standard for
    the Environmental Assessment of Personal Computer Products
    (1680).

## “Green” Printer matrix 

**Complementary to EPEAT, customized to SNL/NM**
**Trial basis at this point**
**Entry per product, scored by supplier**
**“****Binary” scoring system for green features:**
**Energy Star**
**Blue Angel**
**Duplexing**
**Network capable**
**Higher score means green choice**
**Qualifying scores and an icon to be added to vendor catalog entries**

## Energy Star enabled

**Network-based enterprise delivery of Common Operating Environment (COE) software programs**
**Immense savings on (no delivery of) boxed manuals and software**
**At end of FY06, deployed new program to activate “sleep” features on network-connected monitors**
**Within first week, 9300 computer stations impacted**
**Estimated 12,000 monitors were finally changed**** **
**To raise awareness, several internal e-newsletters sent to give details on enabling and estimated savings.**

## Instructions to saveenergy and paper

**Fact sheet distributed to department secretaries**
**Energy Star**
**Duplexing**
**Recycling of consumables**

## Reuse & Recycling

**Reuse & Recycling**

**104,700 pounds reused or recycled during the FEC Electronics Reuse and Recycling Campaign (ERRC).**
**Two separate shipments****to an approved e-waste****recycling vendor**
**76 pallets of CPU’s**
**Receive certificate of ****destruction**

## Partnering

-  **(This week) New tent will be installed at our Reapplication Services yard.**** **
** ****Developed an MOA and an associated procedures document**

## New Tent

**Staging area for electronics prior to recycle**** **** **
**House other P2 initiatives:**
**Toner Exchange**
**Office Supply reuse area **
**LCDs for CRTs, for energy savings**
**Building materials recycling**

##  FEC Partner Goals: 2007

**Evaluate total cost of ownership for new purchases**
**Establish & promote policy to power off PCs when employees go home**
**Reuse or refurbish 25% of equipment**
**Drawn from FEC annual award criteria**
**Seeking a 2007 Bronze or Silver award**

## Path Forward

**Develop an FEC fact sheet for internal awareness & training**
**Pursue 16 objectives listed in FEC annual award criteria that were evaluated to be “achievable”**
**An additional 10 objectives “require further investigation” for feasibility**
**Contract for e-waste recycling**
**New Energy Star designated equipment**

## Copiers are Printers too

-  **10 Copiers enabled as network printers**
-  **Pre-existing capabilities not being used**
** ****Pursuing fax and scan-to-email options**
** ****Objective: reduction of equipment fleet**
-  **450 copiers site-wide is long-term objective**

## Partnering for improved Electronics Stewardship

**Partnering for improved Electronics Stewardship**

- 2007 DOE NNSA P2 Environmental Stewardship Award
- for Electronic Stewardship

## 
Acknowledgements: Sam McCord

                       THANK YOU

**Acknowledgements: Sam McCord**
**                       *****THANK YOU***

- For further details, contact:
- Ralph Wrons_[rjwrons@sandia.gov](mailto:rjwrons@sandia.gov)_505.844.0601