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Key Steps:
Adopting an Environmentally Preferable Purchasing Program
Step 7:
Determining a Strategy for Evaluating EPP Products
It's important to monitor and evaluate your EPP projects to ensure continued success. Develop an audit process to monitor the progress of the pilot study or other EPP project. Set up a mechanism for receiving feedback from employees and product users. Review and evaluate the feedback and use it to improve your current policies and procedures or use the feedback in future projects. Of course, the complexity and detail of this reporting will depend on how significant a change you are making—switching a single product may not require more than a short email survey of users. If a product, practice, or procedure did not work, then make necessary improvements or move forward to another project. In order to demonstrate the cost-effectiveness of an EPP program, you should track any income generated by the program as well as your savings in disposal costs, operating expenses, and purchasing expenditures.
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