Environmentally Preferable Purchasing and Healthcare

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Environmentally Preferable Purchasing and
Healthcare
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Sheila Lockwood, CHMM UW EHS Green Office
Fair December 1, 2009
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Our Values
UW-Discovery is the heart of our
Institution Integrity Diversity Excellence
Collaboration Innovation Respect
UWMC HMC Accountability Respect Innovation Ser
vice Excellence
Regional/National Partners Respect Diversity Exc
ellence Service Collaboration Innovation
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Alignments
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Why Healthcare and EPP

• Reduce Environmental Foot Print
• Water usage
• Energy usage
• Waste generation (solid, hazardous, infectious,
  recycling, radiological)
• Greenhouse gas emissions
• Measure Environmental Performance
• Be a Good Corporate Citizen
• Reap Economic Benefits
• Resources available

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Strategies for Everyone
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UW Green Purchasing-How To Buy

• Consider if the item or service is really
  necessary.
• Consider used items available from Surplus.
• Order from suppliers in the eProcurement on-line
  System.
• Purchase recycled and environmentally preferable
  products (EPP), when quality, performance and
  price are comparable to alternatives.
• Purchase printers and copiers with duplex
  printing capability and use this feature whenever
  practicable.

• Purchase from suppliers with existing contracts
  with the University, State and GPO-UHC.
• Encourage suppliers to provide products and
  services that have minimal negative impact on the
  environment. Is the product durable and
  recyclable are there collection systems in place
  to recycle the product.
• Recycle unwanted supplies within your department.
  
• Share information about recycled products and
  environmentally responsible activities.

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UW Green Purchasing-Recommendations

• 100 recycled printer and copier paper REQUIRED
• Other paper products that contain the highest
  recycled content available
• Compostable and biodegradable bags and serving
  ware Remanufactured toner cartridges
• EPEAT bronze, silver or gold computers

• Cleaning products with GreenSeal or EcoLabel
  Certified and Tested
• Office Supplies via eProcurement
• Energy saving lamps and ballasts
• Appliances and computers Purchase ONLY ENERGY
  STAR rated

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Sustainable Suppliers e-Procurement

• Computers
• CDW-G
• Dell
• GovConnection
• TechDepot
• Dental Supplies
• Arnold Dental
• Furniture
• Bank and Office Interiors
• Industrial Supplies
• Clark Security and Harware
• Grainger
• Excel Gloves

• Office Supplies
• Office Depot
• Lab/Life Sciences
• Bioline
• Fermentas
• Fisher Scientific
• ISC
• Bioexpress
• Invitrogen
• Qiagen
• Sigma
• VWR

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Partnership with Coca-Colaand International Paper

• Compostable Beverage Container

• Cup, Lid Straw

Contact Michael Meyering Project Manager,
Housing and Food Service 206 685-8221,
meyering_at_u.washington.edu
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Laundry Wastewater Management

• Environmental Benefits
• Reduces water use 12,000,000 gallons
• Reduces natural gas use 77,000 therms
• Financial Benefits
• Public Utility Grant
• Project Payback 14 months
• Utility savings (26 months)
• Water savings 139,195
• Natural gas 78,976
• UW Contact
• Emmanuel A. Okoye, director
• 206-520-4717
• laundry_at_u.washington.edu
• Supplier
• Aquarecycle System
• http//www.aquarecycle.com

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Carpet Recycling

• Environmental Benefits
• Landfill disposal avoidance
• Beneficial Reuse-New Carpet
• Transportation impact reduction
• Tacoma, WA verses Arlington, OR
• Financial Benefits
• 56/ton to reprocess
• Solid waste disposal avoidance
• UW Contact
• Jackie Harris
• 206 221-4903, jaharris_at_u.washington.edu 
• Supplier
• Recovery 1 Tacoma
• http//www.recovery1.com/t42/Recovery-1.html

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Department of Energy Grant

• Construct Electric Charging Station
• Purchase additional Hybrid vehicles
• Savings
• 32,915 gallons of gas
• 143,190 fuel cost savings over 15 years
• Custodial fleet savings 74,000 over 15 years
• CO2 emissions reduction
• 369 metric tons for hybrid vehicles
• 160 metric tons for electric vehicles

Contact Josh Kavanagh Director, Transportation
Services 206 685-1567 joshkav_at_u.washington.edu 
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Copy Centers-Double Sided Difference

• 6,160,000 copies per year
• 85 single-sided
• 2006 Began using Grays Harbor recycled paper
  45.62/case
• 628 Trees saved
• Paper Savings 47,773.26

Contact Katy Folk-Way Asst. Director UW Creative
Services 206 543-3481, kfolk_at_u.washington.edu 
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Climate Action Goals for 2050

• Central energy supplied from renewable resources.
  CO2 emissions from central sources are
  sequestered in a geological reservoir.
• Solar thermal solar voltaic energy have become
  ubiquitous. The UW's new wind farm, located 75
  miles from campus, provides a supplemental energy
  source. A new open-loop geothermal system is
  under construction, designed to pump cold water
  deep from within Lake Washington to chillers that
  cool buildings the water is then pumped back
  into the lake.
• New campus buildings must meet a standard of
  energy efficiency that exceeds LEED requirements,
  requiring them to generate all necessary energy
  onsite from renewable resources. Current
  buildings have been super-insulated and refitted
  to make them as energy-efficient as possible.
• Students many years ago agreed to tax themselves
  in the form of a Student Sustainability Fee, with
  the revenue going for student-initiated/engaged
  pilot projects capital expenditures that would
  reduce the University's carbon emissions. And
  even more significantly, students have been
  involved, along with faculty mentors, in the hard
  work of weighing environmental policy
  alternatives technological innovations UW
  graduates are beginning to occupy key places in
  many 21st century companies that promote
  sustainability. Even those employed in more
  conventional enterprises have often become
  workplace advocates for greener practices.

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Green IT

• Possibilities
• Student-run hardware recycling programs to
  repurpose computers and peripherals
• Students invest in devices sustainable throughout
  academic career
• Virtual Student Desktops available worldwide
• UW communications strategy emphasizing mobile
  devices and on-line access
• Minimizing printing and paper transactions

• Problem
• 45,000 students
• 28,000 faculty/staff
• 395,000 managed identities
• 130,000 devices on network
• 32,000 phones
• Solutions
• Maximizing energy efficiency
• Minimizing waste

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Competition Environmental Innovation
Environmental Innovation Challenge

• 16 student teams
• 10,000 prize
• Engineering Innovation
• Project Market Potential

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Revised Code of WA-Chapters/Sections

• Recycled materialRCW 43.19.538Purchase of
  products containing recycled material --
  Preference -- Specifications and rules -- Review.
• RCW 43.19.637Clean-fuel vehicles
• RCW 43.19.663Clean technologies
• Chapter 43.19ARCW Recycled Product Procurement
• RCW 43.19A.020Recycled product purchasing --
  Federal product standards.

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Resources

• http//www.epa.gov/epp/
• http//www.ga.wa.gov/Sustainability/index.html
• http//www.epa.gov/epp/
• http//www.washington.edu/admin/purchstores/purchg
  reen/
• http//www.washington.edu/admin/purchstores/purchg
  reen/
• http//www.naepnet.org/iMIS15_PROD/
• http//www.practicegreenhealth.org/educate/purchas
  ing
• GPOs (Amerinet, Broadlane, Novation, Premier,
  University Health Systems Consortium)

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Contact Information

• Sheila Lockwood, CHMM
• UW Environmental Health and Safety
• 206-616-5836
• lockwood_at_u.washington.edu
• http//www.ehs.washington.edu