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EPEAT™ (Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool) has awarded a Gold rating to the entire line of HP workstations, making HP the first in this category to achieve EPEAT’s highest product rating.
The EPEAT™ system and environmental criteria were developed in a 2-year multi-stakeholder process that was facilitated by the Zero Waste Alliance on a grant from the U.S. EPA, including HP. On January 24, 2007, President Bush signed Executive Order 13423 mandating federal agencies to buy EPEAT™ registered products. As a result, it is gaining more and more momentum in the Federal marketplace.
EPEAT™ rates desktop computers, laptops and monitors based on 51 environmental elements in eight broad categories:
  • Reduction/Elimination of environmentally sensitive materials
  • Material selection
  • Design for end-of-life
  • Product longevity/Life-cycle extension
  • Energy conservation
  • End of life management
  • Corporate performance
  • Packaging
Moreover, EPEAT™ evaluates electronic products according to three categories of environmental performance:
  • Bronze - Product meets all required criteria
  • Sliver - Product meets all required criteria plus at least 50% optional criteria
  • Gold - Product meets all required criteria plus at least 75% optional criteria
The complete set of criteria includes 23 required criteria (i.e., all criteria must be met to achieve the baseline “Bronze” EPEAT™ rating) and 28 optional criteria (i.e. producers can pick and choose among these criteria to boost their EPEAT™ baseline “score” and achieve a higher rating.)
EPEAT™ has only been active for just over one year, but already hundreds of billions of dollars in U.S. federal procurement reference EPEAT™ in the contracts and request for purchase documents.
Environmental Protection Agency officials have distributed sample contract language for soliciting EPEAT™ approved hardware to federal IT procurement divisions. The agency is also publicizing the benchmark to managers of all federal government wide acquisition contracts.
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