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Key Steps:
Adopting an Environmentally Preferable Purchasing Program
Step 1:
Developing a Strategy for Winning Senior Leadership Support
To begin an EPP program, you should have the support of the business owner or upper management. With this commitment, you are reassuring employees that your EPP program is supported at the highest level of your company. Your company can benefit from an EPP program in the following ways:
- Set your company and its products or services apart from competitors.
- Enhance your image in the community.
- Improve worker safety by eliminating exposure to toxic cleaners, solvents, and building products.
- Reduce overhead, waste disposal, and environmental liability costs by selecting less hazardous materials.
- Increase availability of EPP in the marketplace.
EPP can be as simple as choosing to use a less toxic cleaner. Or EPP can be as complex as evaluating the environmental impact of one type of carpet to another product throughout the product's life cycle from raw material selection, manufacture, packaging and distribution, use, and disposal. Many of the resources listed in this guide include life cycle assessments for popular products so you have the information you need for choosing more environmentally preferable products.
Contact Paul Harding (801-536-4108) or Frances Bernards (801-536-0086) for further information on the content of this page.
