GSA Training Conference and Expo 2010

Improving Green Operations - Using BioPreferred to Serve and Clean Green

Ed HogbergEnergy and Environmental Manager, USDA

Jim Evanoff Environmental Protection Specialist Yellowstone National Park

Shawn Spengler Director of Product ManagementNational Industries for the Blind

Improving Green Operations – Using BioPreferred

to Serve and Clean Green

Ed Hogberg

Energy and Environmental Manager

USDA Headquarters

Improving Green Operations

• Operations and maintenance• Food service• Janitorial services• Landscaping• Major and minor construction• Awareness and outreach

Benefits of Using BioPreferred Products

• Reduced IAQ complaints• Reduced occupant complaints• Reduced hazardous waste and

universal waste quantities generated• Employees like the green-cleaning

program

How To Get it Done

• Get upper management buy-in early• Specify in contracts• Specify in facility management directions• Train procurement staff• Train employees

Operations & Maintenance• Degreasers for drains• Coil cleaners• Industrial solvents• Hydraulic fluids for security bollards• Deodorants

Typical Food Service Items

Bagasse Plates and Bowls• Made from sugar cane fiber • Biodegradable and compostable

Polylactic Acid (PLA) Products – Clear Cups• Made from glucose from agricultural crops such as corn and

potatoes • Biodegradable and compostable

Cellulose and Limestone cutlery• Made form cellulose and limestone, also known as BioGrade • Heat stable, perfect for hot foods – dishwasher safe• Biodegradable

Janitorial Services

• Glass cleaner

• Restroom cleaners

• Floor stripper

• Floor finish

• Hand soap

• All-surface cleaners

Closing the Loop!

These empty, biobased soap drums are used for rain barrels when the janitorial staff is finished with them.

Landscaping Services

• BioPreferred fertilizer

Major Construction

System furniture installed in several phases of the South Building Modernization that uses biobased fabric and agri-board for the desktop under the laminate

Awareness and Outreach - Events

Encouraging biobased product use at work and home!

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Awareness and Outreach - Website

Questions?

Ed HogbergEnergy and Environmental Manager

USDA Headquarters

Email: edward.hogberg@usda.govPhone: 202-205-8923

Improving Green Operations – Using BioPreferred

to Serve and Clean Green

Jim Evanoff

Environmental Protection Specialist

Yellowstone National Park

Yellowstone National Park

Yellowstone National Park is the world’s first national park, created by an act of Congress in 1872. The park contains the largest concentration of geo-thermal features in the world, as well as the largest Bison and Elk herds in the world.

The park is surrounded by six national forests. This 18 million-acre land mass is the last intact ecosystem left in the world.

Yellowstone experiences over 3 million visitors annually. This equates to over one million vehicles entering into the park every year.

Yellowstone experiences over 2,000 earthquakes every year.

Uniqueness of the park:

In 1916, the first automobiles entered the park…

Yellowstone’s Environmental Program Today:

We are addressing the critical importance of preserving and protecting this national treasure through:

-- Use of biodiesel in all vehicles-- Biobased cleaning and janitorial products-- Biobased lubricants/solvents-- Renewable energy successes-- Water-conservation initiatives-- Green procurement programs-- Green transportation

Major Commodities Collected

(tons)

2009• Aluminum/steel 14.1• Cardboard 269.5• Electronics 13.2• Glass 117.8• Paper 86.4• Plastics 41.2• Tires 250

Beginning in 2009, concessions operations are collecting and reusing all used cooking oil generated

in the park (est. 11,000 gal/annually).

Successful Partnerships

Improving Green Operations - Using BioPreferred to Serve

and Clean Green

Shawn Spengler Director of Product Management Jan/San MRO Products National Industries for the Blind

• Wagner-O’Day Act - 1938

• Law amended in 1971

• AbilityOne - 2006

Franklin D. Roosevelt

JWOD is the law…

AbilityOne is the program…

SKILCRAFT is the brand!

AbilityOne Program

To enhance opportunities for economic and personal independence of persons who are blind or severely disabled primarily through creating, sustaining, and improving employment.

Create employment for the 70% of unemployed Americans who are blind or severely disabled.

Promote independence!

Our Mission

1. Alternative fuels & vehicles

2. Biobased products3. Electronics – registered on EPEAT4. Energy Star® & Energy-efficient 5. Environmentally-preferable6. Low / no toxic or hazardous chemicals7. Non-ozone depleting substances8. Recycled content / remanufactured9. Renewable energy10. Water-efficient products

AbilityOne Support of Federal Green Purchasing Initiatives

Currently on the procurement list:• Absorbents• Disposable cutlery• Disposable tableware• Cleaning chemicals• Hand sanitizer & cleaners• Highlighter, pens, and correction tapes

Under development:• Various cleaners• Lubricants• Mechanical pencils

Biobased and AbilityOne

SKILCRAFT Biobased Disposable Cups• 9 disposable white paper cup NSNs• Compostable hot, cold, and food cups• Lined with 100% biobased (PLA) coating• Elemental chlorine-free paper• 6- to 16-oz. hot and cold cups• 12-oz. hot food cup

Now available

Serve Green with AbilityOne

SKILCRAFT Biobased Cutlery• Meets USDA final biobased content• Wheat starch replaces 50% of polypropylene• Composts by 50% within 90 days• Withstands temperatures over 200 degrees• Meets, exceeds standards in CID A-A-3109B

Serve Green with AbilityOne

Higher biobased content

is being field-tested.

SKILCRAFT Biobased Hand Care• Gel and foam instant hand sanitizers• Liquid and foam hand cleaners• Pumice hand cleaners

Clean (Hands) Green with AbilityOne

• Glass cleaner• Graffiti remover• Industrial degreaser• Multi-purpose cleaner• Restroom cleaner

Clean Green with AbilityOne

• Concentrates• Ready-to-use• Dispensing

SKILCRAFT Biobased Cleaning Chemicals

Clean-up Green with AbilityOne

SKILCRAFT Biobased Absorbents• Made from US cotton and wool• Re-usable; extract and recycle oil• Biodegradable• Incinerates efficiently; high BTU and

low ash content

AbilityOne biobased products are

available through:

GSA Global Supply

and

GSA Multiple Award Schedule Holders

Thank You!

Shawn SpenglerNational Industries for the Blind

sspengler@nib.org703-310-0559