EPP can reduce GHG emissions

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EPP can reduce GHG emissions

• Remanufactured toner cartridges
• One cartridge saves 3.0 quarts of oil reduces
  0.0008 MTCE
• Office paper
• 40 cases of recycled paper saves 0.68 MTCE
• Saving 40 cases reduces 0.80 MTCE
• Retread tires
• One tire saves 60 quarts of oil reduces 0.016
  MTCE

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Massachusetts has had an EPP Program for 9 years.
See these figures from 2001 to see why EPP has
worked for Mass. saved
544,362
(not including
maintenance and operational savings)MTCE saved

4063Cubic yards landfill space saved
17,828Purchasing spent
on EPPs 92.5 millionVendor
jobs created
33Program jobs created
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We recommend using the CPGs, that EPA updates
annually

• EPA compiles Comprehensive Procurement Guidelines
  published in Recovered Materials Advisory Notice
  or RMANs on 54 items in 8 categories of goods
• Paper and Paper Products, Vehicular Products,
  Construction Products, Transportation Products,
  Park and Recreation Products, Landscaping
  Products, Non-paper Office Products, and
  Miscellaneous Products

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Current Law RIGL 37-2-76 http//www.rilin.state.r
i.us/statutes/Title37/37-2/73-2-70.HTM

• (a) The state shall, through its purchasing
  policy and practice, affirmatively promote the
  use of recycled products. The Dept. of
  Administration in conjunction with the Department
  of Environmental Management shall, through
  regulations, establish a time table requiring
  increased utilization by the state of recycled
  products. In January of each year, the Dept. of
  Administration shall report to the General
  Assembly the States progress in utilizing
  recycled products materials and supplies for the
  preceding twelve (12) months.
• (b) With respect to office paper products, at
  least fifty percent (50) of the expenditure for
  office paper products purchased by the state of
  Rhode Island, its agencies and departments, shall
  be recycled paper products by fiscal year 1995.
• (c) The Department of Administration in
  conjunction with the Department of Environmental
  Management shall annually establish comprehensive
  technical specifications based on research by the
  Department of Environmental Management for
  recycled products, materials and supplies to be
  purchased by the state under this section. These
  specifications shall include the minimum
  performance and quality attributes as well as
  minimum pre- and post-consumer content.

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Suggested Revision to RI Law

• (a) The state shall, through its purchasing
  policy and practice, affirmatively promote the
  use of recycled products. All procurement
  officers shall use the federally established
  Comprehensive Procurement Guidelines, published
  annually in the Recommend Materials Advisory
  Notice or RMAN when creating specifications for
  product procurement.

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Some RI agencies are required by law to follow
this standard!

• RCRA 6002 requires procuring agencies (state and
  local government and their contractors) spending
  appropriated federal funds of at least 10,000 on
  a designated item in a given fiscal year or the
  previous year must follow Comprehensive
  Procurement Guidelines (CPG)
• Citizens may sue any person alleged to be in
  violation of the act in Federal Court

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Contact us or visit the EPP for RI website, now
under construction

• Catherine_Mansell_at_Brown.edu
• Caroline_Colesworthy_at_Brown.edu
• http//envstudies.brown.edu/classes/es201/2003/EPP
  /index.htm
• Thanks, its been great working with you all!