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Plans unveiled to simplify green procurement of electronic products
Plans have been unveiled to develop a system that helps procurement professionals to identify "green" electronics products.The Sustainability Consortium, which is co-administered by Arizona State University and the University of Arkansas, is teaming up with firms manufacturing and selling consumer electronics to help highlight social and environmental considerations.
Working with Best Buy, Dell, HP, Intel, Toshiba, and Walmart, the consortium will research and publish findings on the lifecycle environmental and social impacts of electronic products. These findings will be used to support efforts to identify products as sustainable or "green."
"Customers tell us they want to purchase electronics that have a minimal impact on our planet. This is an effort to help them do that using a common methodology that manufacturers across the industry participate in," said Scott O'Connell, environmental strategist, Dell.
"This is about making it easy for customers to determine what's 'green' and what's not, and we'd like to have the whole industry involved."
In developing the criteria, the consortium indicated will consider the impacts electronics have on those who build, use and dispose of them, as well as their environmental impacts throughout their lifecycle. It also is investigating how to collaborate with standards and programs with which buyers are already familiar, such as EPEAT (the Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool) and ENERGY STAR, and standards set forth by the Electronic Industry Citizenship Coalition.
"Developing additional detailed information on the lifecycle impacts of electronics will not only help our customers make educated buying decisions, but assist companies to make clear, pointed product sustainability claims," said Engelina Jaspers, vice president of environmental sustainability, HP.
"Reaching uniformity in communicating sustainability claims will be a decision made in the name of consistency, transparency, and simplicity and will benefit all involved."
The consortium will release initial results of its work in the third quarter of 2010. "Our initial work is focused on criteria for laptops, desktops and monitors," said Dr. Kevin Dooley of the Sustainability Consortium and a professor in the W. P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University.
"We plan to expand the project to a broader set of electronic goods later in the year, when additional manufacturers and suppliers will be recruited to the project."
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