EPP in Practice

Environmentally preferable purchasing is policy in numerous places in the United States and abroad. As other locations demand environmentally preferable products, locations not setting similar standards risk becoming a dumping ground for products with less desirable environmental attributes. Californians benefit from policies that help keep products with harmful constituents out of our homes and workplaces, and an increase in demand for environmentally preferable products helps encourage manufacturers to create more of them.

Here is a sampling of organizations actively pursuing EPP:

• California
  • City and County of San Francisco
  • City of Santa Monica
  • Alameda County
  • Nevada County
  • Ventura County
  
  
• United States - Federal government
  • Air Force
  • Defense Logistics Information Service
  • Department of Energy, Energy Star
  • Environmental Protection Agency
  • Federal Network for Sustainability (Note: This is not a governmental agency. It is a voluntary, collaborative network of Federal agencies in the Western United States focused on fostering and furthering the concept of sustainability within the government through their individual programs and group initiatives.)
  
  
• States
  • Massachusetts
  • Michigan
  • Minnesota
  • North Carolina
  • Ohio
  • Pennsylvania
  • Vermont
  
  
• Counties and Cities
  • New York, NY
  • King County, WA
  
  
• Non-governmental Organizations
  • Health Care Without Harm
  • GreenBlue
  • Sustainable Packaging Coalition
  
  
• International
  • Asia Pacific (China, Japan, Korea, Malaysia)
  • European Commission
  • European Union
  • Canada Environmental Choice
  • Japan
  • Malaysia
  • Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
  • Sweden
  • United Kingdom
  • Vienna, Austria
  
  
• Private Sector
  • Environmental Defense's Corporate Innovation