Environmental Requirements for State Contracting What’s Required for Connecticut Executive Branch...

Environmental Requirements for State Contracting

What’s Required for Connecticut Executive Branch State Agencies?

From this presentation you will learn:

EPP – what is it; why participate? The basics of Life-Cycle cost analysis What’s required by state statute?

– Recycled paper– EPA CPGs

Additional Resources you can use– Energy Star– Green Seal– EPA Comprehensive Procurement Guidelines

What is Environmentally Preferable Purchasing?

AKA: Green Purchasing, Eco-Procurement, Sustainable Purchasing, Affirmative Purchasing

Purchasing practices that utilize your economic resources in a manner that conserves the sources of the commodities you buy

Benefits of EPP

Reduce ghg emissions (Climate Change) and Acid Rain

Respond to Public Demand Address Social Equity Improve Air and Water Quality Preserve and Restore Habitat

Benefits of EPP

$ Increase Waste Reduction, Reuse and Recycling

$ Save Energy$ Conserve Water$ Improve Employee Health$ Reduce Environmental Liability

Sustainability and Good Governance

“Embedded Climate Risk” has been identified as a serious danger to the long-term productivity of the global economy.

Beginning to greatly influence financial marketsacross the globe.

Dow Jones Sustainability Index– Economic, social, and environmental criteria

CGS § 4a-67h - EPP Defined

“…products, services or practices [that] have a lesser or reduced negative affect on human health and the environment when compared to competing products, services or practices that serve the same function.”

CGS § 4a-67h Amended by P.A. 04-252…

References to reducing Global Warming Impact

In accordance with CT’s Climate Change Action Plan

CTclimatechange.com Monitor the use of EPPs by CT State Agencies

EPP Evaluates Product Lifecycle (or cost-effectiveness)

“…taking into consideration the raw materials acquisition, production, manufacturing, packaging, distribution, reuse, operation, maintenance or disposal aspects of the product…”

Life-Cycle Cost Analysis What is it?

State Statutes require the use of Life-Cycle Cost Analysis to justify product purchase

Addresses the issue of is “lowest cost” really costing the state the least?

Utilizes readily available information to determine how much a product actually costs the state to buy, run, and dispose of.

Life-Cycle Cost AnalysisThe Basics

Life Cycle Cost =

Initial Cost + Usage Cost + Disposal Cost

That’s it!

Life-Cycle Cost AnalysisExample – Light Duty Vehicles

Initial Cost

Residual Value

5 Years

Fuel Cost Cost Over 5 Years

Vehicle A $12,000 33% $818 $12,130

Vehicle B $10,000 15% $964 $13,320

Executive Branch State Agencies – What’s required by CT State Statutes

30% Post Consumer Waste, Recycled Content Paper

Recycled Content Products

What’s Required Paper CGS § 4a-67f

“…the Commissioner of DAS shall revise the specifications for printing and writing paper purchased by the State to…incorporate the standards … provided for in federal Executive Order ...”

And, it’s not just copy paper…

Offset paper Forms bond File folders Envelopes Uncoated printing and

writing papers Book paper

Conflicting Requirements…How can we do better?

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

Paper Use Reduction PlanIf we don’t use it,

we don’t have to buy or dispose of it!

Some Paper Use Statistics

The average American office worker uses a sheet of paper every 12 minutes – a ream every 2 ½ working weeks.

The number of pages consumed in U.S. offices grows by about 20% each year.

The introduction of e-mail resulted in a 40% increase in paper consumption.

Per capita U.S. paper consumption is over 6 times greater than the world average. 25% greater than in Japan, the world’s 2nd largest consumer of paper.

Why Buy Recycled Paper?

1.2 million acres of U.S. forest is cleared every year Pulp and paper mills produce approximately 245,000

metric tons of air pollutants/year Paper manufacturing is the 5th largest industrial

consumer of energy. Producing one ton of paper uses 98 tons of various resources.

Paper is the single largest component of municipal solid waste – about 38%!

Why Buy Recycled Paper?

Transportation – from forest to mill; from mill to company; from company to you.

Global warming – every stage of paper production, from the cutting of trees to disposal adds to greenhouse gas emissions.

It’s required!

Is it possible to offset the cost of buying recycled paper by duplexing?

Determining Program Potential

734 x 0.5* = 367

# reams used/month x # reams not eligible for duplexing = reams possible to 2-side

367 ÷ 2 = 183.5 reams possible to save by duplexing

*0.5 (50%) = 30% standard allowance for docs already 2-sided, 1-sided docs, and docs needed as 1-sided + 20% (DAS only) Print Shop allowance for docs already requested as 2-sided

Program Potential

183.5 reams possible to save by duplexingx 2.33 cost/ream recycled content paper$427.56 total cost for recycled paperx .13 6% price increase for recycled/ream $55.58 total extra cost for recycled

$427.56 – $55.58 = $371.98 DAS monthly savings potential from duplexing while buying recycled content paper

Applying a Paper Reduction Strategy in Your Office…

Simply making an effort to duplex documents can save you money while protecting Natural Resources!

Paper-Saving Strategies

Decrease standard margin size to 0.75”

Use half-sheets Edit on screen Use “Print Preview”

function Reformat your document

Paper-Saving Strategies

Copier Default to Duplex

PC Preferences to Duplex

Designate a “draft drawer” for paper used on one side

Use one-sided print for scratch pads

What’s Required – Recycled Content Products

CGS § 4a-67a“The Commissioner of DAS shall

revise the specifications for products and materials purchased by the state for which the United States Environmental Protection Agency has guidelines for minimum recycled content to incorporate such minimum guidelines.”

EPA Comprehensive Procurement Guidelines (CPGs)

First CPGs issued in 1995 in response to the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) requirement for federal procuring agencies to buy recycled content products.

CPGs updated every 2 years. CPG research includes content as well as

quality, availability, and cost.

What Products Have EPA CPG Specifications?

Construction Products Landscaping Products Nonpaper Office

Products Paper and Paper

Products

Park and Recreation Products

Transportation Products Vehicular Products Miscellaneous Products

Balance… Specific circumstances that may preclude the purchase of recycled content products:

Price is unreasonable Inadequate supplyUnreasonable delayProduct does not meet reasonable

agency specifications

EPA CPGs

Website with Specifications and Language available at:

www.epa.gov/cpg/products.htm

Energy Star Website

www.energystar.gov

life-cycle cost analysis

language

interesting facts on energy use

EPP Products and Services Available on DAS State Contracts

Recycled content copy paper and office supplies

Recycled content traffic cones

Re-manufactured ink cartridges

Re-refined oil products IPM

Fluorescent lamp disposal

Printers, Copiers and PCs

Retread tires Carpeting Recycled antifreeze And much more

Helping You Try Something New

The EPP Program can assist you in greening your procurement activities by:

• Identifying and researching environmentally preferable products and services

• Establishing environmental specifications• Evaluating products• Providing education and training

Thank-you!

Questions? Please submit any questions to:

DAS Procurement Services

DAS Environmentally Preferable Purchasing

(860)713-5095

E-mail to: WeServeYou.das@ct.gov