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EPEAT PURCHASING

Sarah O’Brien

State Electronics Challenge

February 25, 2013

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© Copyright 2011 Green Electronics Council

Designed who purchases

electronics—from consumers to enterprises—evaluate, compare

and select products that

What is EPEAT?

EPEAT has come to be the definitive global registry for greener

electronics.

2800+ products

45+from manufacturerscountries42in

Contains

reduce environmental impact

to help everyone

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Two central constituencies

A uniform environmental performance rating to efficiently address environmental issues in purchasing specifications across electronic product categories

IndustryClear, 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.

Purchasers

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What products does EPEAT cover?

Desktops, laptops/notebooks, workstations,

thin clients and displays.

Imaging equipment

Televisions

Servers and mobile devices

Currently:

Coming soon:

Up next:

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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 takeback schemes

• Public Private Partnership – interest in voluntary protocols, avoiding the inflexibility of regulatory approach

• Desire for market drivers to set clear direction, rewards

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How was (and is) EPEAT created

• 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 andmarket mechanisms

• 2005 - consensus reached on the EPEAT system and PC-Display lifecycle environmental performance criteria

• Ongoing consensus development of standards

• Ongoing guidance of Advisory Council from all stakeholdergroups

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What is the basis for product ratings?

EPEAT’s environmental

criteria cover the

complete product

lifecycle from

design to recycling.

Summary of Criteria in EPEAT StandardsIEEE 1680.1 Computers

(2009)

IEEE 1680.2 Imaging Equipment (2012)

IEEE 1680.3 Televisions (2012)

Required Optional Required Optional Required Optional

Environmentally Sensitive Materials

3 8 4 7 3 9

Materials Selection 3 3 4 3 3 3

Design for End of Life 6 5 7 2 5 6

Product Longevity/Life Cycle Extension

2 2 2 1 3 0

Energy Conservation 1 3 2 4 1 4

End of Life Management 2 1 2 2 2 2

Corporate Performance 3 2 2 3 2 3

Packaging 3 4 5 2 5 2

Consumables - - 4 2 - -

Indoor Air Quality - - 1 0 - -

Total # Criteria23

Required28 Optional

33 Required

26 Optional

24 Required

29 Optional

51 Total 59 Total 53 Total

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How are products rated in EPEAT?

• Products must meet all required criteria to qualify for

EPEAT.

• Products are rated Bronze, Silver or Gold based on how

many optional criteria they meet.

Green Greener Greenest

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Verification Approach

•Manufacturers: - Sign legal agreement to participate- Initially register under supervised ‘desk review’-Must have specific verification evidence for all criteria- Desk review triggers – any new criterion, new country, first Gold

•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

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Imaging Equipment – Covered Products

• Imaging product definition follows ENERGY STAR:

– Printers

– Copiers

– Scanners

– Facsimile Machines

– Multifunction devices

– Digital duplicators

– Mailing machines

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Imaging Equipment

• Registry is open for business – Feb 12th launch

• Participating manufacturers:

– Dell, Seiko-Epson, Canon, Xerox, Ricoh, Lexmark, Konica

Minolta, 4 others in process

• Current US product registration numbers:

– 9 copiers, 3 digital duplicators, 4 Fax machines, 125 MFDs, 40

printers

– 83 Bronze, 70 Silver, 28 Gold

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What’s New - Standards

Environmental Performance Criteria:

• Increased focus on transparency – supply chain,

materials, carbon disclosure

• More detailed treatment of End of Life – detailed

product characterization, required BMPs for processing

• New content areas – Indoor Air Quality, Consumables

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What’s New - System

System Updates:

• Addition of global capacity with registration partners-

CESI, DEKRA, Intertek, ULE, VDE

• Online training for registration personnel

• Multiple types of Desk Review - for new criteria, new

country registrations, first Gold by country, etc.

• Increasing focus on developing more workable Product

ID system

Growth and influence

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Growth 2006-2010

3 to 50+ Manufacturers

60 to ~3000 product registrations

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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.

Listing for identification purposes only – does not indicate endorsement

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Recognition in sustainability systems

• LEED Existing Buildings (2 criteria)

• AASHE STARS certificate system (higher education)

• Healthy Hospitals Initiative Challenge

• Consortium on School Networking (K-12) Green IT certificate

• State Electronics Challenge

• Federal Electronics Challenge

• Practice Greenhealth Awards

• Green Guide for Health Care (GGHC) system

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EPEAT Estimated Environmental Benefits – Worldwide, 2011

Metric Reduction Equivalents

Electricity 12 billion kilowatt hours Annual electricity use of 963,716

average US households

Primary Materials 4.4 million metric tons The weight of 14 Empire State

Buildings

Air Emissions (incl. GHG) 9 million metric tons

Greenhouse Gas Emissions 2.2million MTCE Over 1.6 million avge US vehicles taken off the road for a year

Water Emissions 16 thousand metric tons

Toxic Materials Mercury

1,381 metric tons 615 kg

Weight of 266 elephants437,048 fever thermometers

Solid Waste 50,976 metric tons 76,262 US households’ annual solid waste

Hazardous Waste 74,082 metric tons The weight of 7 Eiffel Towers

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US Government EPEAT Commitment

…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 23.705

Federal Acquisition Regulations

Using EPEAT

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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.

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Quick Search

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Model purchasing language

• All [PRODUCTS] 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 1680.1).

• [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 http://www.epeat.net.

http://www.epeat.net/

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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

EPEAT Bronze

Unrated

Desktops

Notebooks

Integrated Systems

Workstations

Displays

Thin client

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Purchasing Partner Program

• Quick online signup

• Pledge to purchase EPEAT registered products

• Recognition on EPEAT website

• Can work with EPEAT to develop case study, profile

• Report annually for recognition

• Complementary to SEC (working on mutual

recognition) – if you are SEC member, just click through

to us and you’re already qualified.

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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

in addition to the latest Energy Star standard. 21 to 45 other rigorous criteria

For more info: Energystar.gov

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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

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Contact information

Sarah O’Brien Director, Outreach and Communications+1 (802) 479 0317 (EST)[email protected]

www.epeat.net

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