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Environmental Requirements for State Contracting
What’s Required for Connecticut Executive Branch State Agencies?
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From this presentation you will learn:
EPP – what is it; why participate? The basics of Life-Cycle cost analysis What’s required by state statute?
– Recycled paper– EPA CPGs
Additional Resources you can use– Energy Star– Green Seal– EPA Comprehensive Procurement Guidelines
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What is Environmentally Preferable Purchasing?
AKA: Green Purchasing, Eco-Procurement, Sustainable Purchasing, Affirmative Purchasing
Purchasing practices that utilize your economic resources in a manner that conserves the sources of the commodities you buy
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Benefits of EPP
Reduce ghg emissions (Climate Change) and Acid Rain
Respond to Public Demand Address Social Equity Improve Air and Water Quality Preserve and Restore Habitat
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Benefits of EPP
$ Increase Waste Reduction, Reuse and Recycling
$ Save Energy$ Conserve Water$ Improve Employee Health$ Reduce Environmental Liability
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Sustainability and Good Governance
“Embedded Climate Risk” has been identified as a serious danger to the long-term productivity of the global economy.
Beginning to greatly influence financial marketsacross the globe.
Dow Jones Sustainability Index– Economic, social, and environmental criteria
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CGS § 4a-67h - EPP Defined
“…products, services or practices [that] have a lesser or reduced negative affect on human health and the environment when compared to competing products, services or practices that serve the same function.”
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CGS § 4a-67h Amended by P.A. 04-252…
References to reducing Global Warming Impact
In accordance with CT’s Climate Change Action Plan
CTclimatechange.com Monitor the use of EPPs by CT State Agencies
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EPP Evaluates Product Lifecycle (or cost-effectiveness)
“…taking into consideration the raw materials acquisition, production, manufacturing, packaging, distribution, reuse, operation, maintenance or disposal aspects of the product…”
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Life-Cycle Cost Analysis What is it?
State Statutes require the use of Life-Cycle Cost Analysis to justify product purchase
Addresses the issue of is “lowest cost” really costing the state the least?
Utilizes readily available information to determine how much a product actually costs the state to buy, run, and dispose of.
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Life-Cycle Cost AnalysisThe Basics
Life Cycle Cost =
Initial Cost + Usage Cost + Disposal Cost
That’s it!
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Life-Cycle Cost AnalysisExample – Light Duty Vehicles
Initial Cost
Residual Value
5 Years
Fuel Cost Cost Over 5 Years
Vehicle A $12,000 33% $818 $12,130
Vehicle B $10,000 15% $964 $13,320
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Executive Branch State Agencies – What’s required by CT State Statutes
30% Post Consumer Waste, Recycled Content Paper
Recycled Content Products
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What’s Required Paper CGS § 4a-67f
“…the Commissioner of DAS shall revise the specifications for printing and writing paper purchased by the State to…incorporate the standards … provided for in federal Executive Order ...”
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And, it’s not just copy paper…
Offset paper Forms bond File folders Envelopes Uncoated printing and
writing papers Book paper
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Conflicting Requirements…How can we do better?
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Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
Paper Use Reduction PlanIf we don’t use it,
we don’t have to buy or dispose of it!
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Some Paper Use Statistics
The average American office worker uses a sheet of paper every 12 minutes – a ream every 2 ½ working weeks.
The number of pages consumed in U.S. offices grows by about 20% each year.
The introduction of e-mail resulted in a 40% increase in paper consumption.
Per capita U.S. paper consumption is over 6 times greater than the world average. 25% greater than in Japan, the world’s 2nd largest consumer of paper.
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Why Buy Recycled Paper?
1.2 million acres of U.S. forest is cleared every year Pulp and paper mills produce approximately 245,000
metric tons of air pollutants/year Paper manufacturing is the 5th largest industrial
consumer of energy. Producing one ton of paper uses 98 tons of various resources.
Paper is the single largest component of municipal solid waste – about 38%!
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Why Buy Recycled Paper?
Transportation – from forest to mill; from mill to company; from company to you.
Global warming – every stage of paper production, from the cutting of trees to disposal adds to greenhouse gas emissions.
It’s required!
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Is it possible to offset the cost of buying recycled paper by duplexing?
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Determining Program Potential
734 x 0.5* = 367
# reams used/month x # reams not eligible for duplexing = reams possible to 2-side
367 ÷ 2 = 183.5 reams possible to save by duplexing
*0.5 (50%) = 30% standard allowance for docs already 2-sided, 1-sided docs, and docs needed as 1-sided + 20% (DAS only) Print Shop allowance for docs already requested as 2-sided
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Program Potential
183.5 reams possible to save by duplexingx 2.33 cost/ream recycled content paper$427.56 total cost for recycled paperx .13 6% price increase for recycled/ream $55.58 total extra cost for recycled
$427.56 – $55.58 = $371.98 DAS monthly savings potential from duplexing while buying recycled content paper
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Applying a Paper Reduction Strategy in Your Office…
Simply making an effort to duplex documents can save you money while protecting Natural Resources!
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Paper-Saving Strategies
Decrease standard margin size to 0.75”
Use half-sheets Edit on screen Use “Print Preview”
function Reformat your document
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Paper-Saving Strategies
Copier Default to Duplex
PC Preferences to Duplex
Designate a “draft drawer” for paper used on one side
Use one-sided print for scratch pads
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What’s Required – Recycled Content Products
CGS § 4a-67a“The Commissioner of DAS shall
revise the specifications for products and materials purchased by the state for which the United States Environmental Protection Agency has guidelines for minimum recycled content to incorporate such minimum guidelines.”
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EPA Comprehensive Procurement Guidelines (CPGs)
First CPGs issued in 1995 in response to the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) requirement for federal procuring agencies to buy recycled content products.
CPGs updated every 2 years. CPG research includes content as well as
quality, availability, and cost.
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What Products Have EPA CPG Specifications?
Construction Products Landscaping Products Nonpaper Office
Products Paper and Paper
Products
Park and Recreation Products
Transportation Products Vehicular Products Miscellaneous Products
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Balance… Specific circumstances that may preclude the purchase of recycled content products:
Price is unreasonable Inadequate supplyUnreasonable delayProduct does not meet reasonable
agency specifications
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EPA CPGs
Website with Specifications and Language available at:
www.epa.gov/cpg/products.htm
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Energy Star Website
www.energystar.gov
life-cycle cost analysis
language
interesting facts on energy use
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EPP Products and Services Available on DAS State Contracts
Recycled content copy paper and office supplies
Recycled content traffic cones
Re-manufactured ink cartridges
Re-refined oil products IPM
Fluorescent lamp disposal
Printers, Copiers and PCs
Retread tires Carpeting Recycled antifreeze And much more
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Helping You Try Something New
The EPP Program can assist you in greening your procurement activities by:
• Identifying and researching environmentally preferable products and services
• Establishing environmental specifications• Evaluating products• Providing education and training
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Thank-you!
Questions? Please submit any questions to:
DAS Procurement Services
DAS Environmentally Preferable Purchasing
(860)713-5095
E-mail to: [email protected]