Army Affirmative Procurement: Buying Recycled Closes the Circle

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Green Procurement Program at Eglin AFB
Formerly the Affirmative Procurement program
EO 13423 and the Federal Governments Mandatory
Buy Recycled Program
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The Green Procurement Program Includes
Products made from Recycled and reclaimed
materials
Substitutes for EPA Priority Chemicals
Purchases of alternative fueled vehicles
Biobased Products identified by USDA.
Energy Star labeled energy-efficient products
Voluntary program to purchase items with lesser
or decreased effects on human health and the
environment
Alternatives to ozone-depleting substances
Environmentally Preferable Purchasing
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Affirmative Procurement vs. Environmentally
Preferable Purchasing

• May involve a multitude of attributes
• Reduced toxicity, less packaging, reparability,
  energy savings, create less HW, recycled content
• Products not specifically identified

Biobased
Required by Law

• Limited to Recycled Content
• Products identified by EPA Comprehensive
  Procurement Guidelines (CPGs)
• Guidance and Standards (RMANs)

• USDA identified Industrial products and
• fuels made from agricultural products and
• forestry feedstock.
• List published in March 2006
• Rules took affect in March 2007

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Applicability Who Has To Do AP?
Procuring Agencies

• Federal agencies, or any state agency or
  contractor using appropriated federal funds
• Applies to agencies spending more than 10,000
  annually on EPA-designated items
• DoD is considered a procuring agency

Printed on Recycled Paper
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Exceptions to the purchasing requirements!

• You are not required to purchase designated
  recycled-content items if
• The price of the recycled-content item is
  unreasonable, or
• The performance of the recycled-content item is
  inadequate, or
• The item is not available within a reasonable
  timeframe or at a sufficient level of competition

PRICE
PERFORMANCE
AVAILABILITY
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Benefits of Buying Recycled

• Creates recycling markets
• Saves energy
• Conserves resources
• Saves money
• Saves landfill space
• Reduces pollution
• Creates jobs
• Provides incentive for
• manufacturers to alter processes

• purchasing

collection
manufacturing
Purchasing recycled products completes the
recycling loop!
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EO 13423 Strengthening the Federal
Environmental, Energy, and Transportation
Management (2007)

• New Executive Order issued by President Bush
  lists all of the sections of Environmentally
  Preferable Purchasing.
• Requires all agencies to act in sustainable
  manner. This is what buying recycled content
  products is based upon.

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Use the Mandated Sources of Supply?

• First define your product needs for example,
  folders made with recycled content paper
• Second, go to your mandatory sources of supply
  first and look for the product
• All of these have some indicator of CPG compliant
  products
• If they dont supply the item, let them know you
  require recycled content!

Small Businesses
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Air Force Goal

• 100 of all products purchased each year in each
  of EPAs designated categories (CPG) shall
  contain recycled materials meeting EPAs
  guideline criteria.

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USDA-Designated Biobased Items

• Effective March 2007

• Mobile Equipment Hydraulic Fluid
• Roof Coatings
• Water Tank Coatings
• Diesel Fuel Additives
• Penetrating Lubricants
• Bedding, Bed Linens and Towels

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Questions ?

• Jim Reese
• 882-7671
• FAX [phone]
• reesej_at_eglin.af.mil