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Why Buy Green?
Environmentally Preferable Purchasing or buying green involves the purchase of goods and services that have a reduced impact on human health and the environment as compared to other goods and services serving the same purpose.
Buying green is all about smart purchasing. State purchasing professionals have a responsibility to buy products that give California the best value. Environmentally preferable products are long lasting, high-quality, less toxic, reusable, and easy to recycle.
Environmentally preferable products also use less materials, water and energy- minimizing the impact on California's natural environment.
Buying green is also the law. See California Public Contract Code, sections 12400-12404 for more information.
Get Going Green!
The state of California has produced an easy-to-use guide to help you find and select environmentally preferable products.
The Environmentally Preferable Purchasing Best Practices Manual is now online.
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