How can you include sustainable acquisition in your site's Environmental Management System?
- Set a goal to include the purchase of sustainable products in your site's Environmental Management System and transition to at least one such product a year
- Survey your organization's purchasing and resulting waste
- Recognize that products purchased today often become tomorrow's environmental management problems
- Identify mechanisms for buying environmental products
- Credit card purchases - Statements of work
- Service contracts - Requests for proposal
- Electronic catalogs
- Conduct pilot projects
- Evaluate progress and renew efforts according to results
- Communicate benefits
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