Environmental purchasing is based on the simple premise that every product purchased impacts on the environment. When your organisation takes its first step on the journey towards best practice environmental purchasing the ripples are far-reaching.

 

Membership of ECO-Buy can provide significant benefits to your organisation: 

 

Reduce environmental impacts
Minimise your impact on the environment by integrating environmental considerations into your business operations. 

 

Risk management
Manage risks in the supply chain that may arise from using potentially harmful or socially unacceptable products.

Improve bottom line
Improve your bottom line - both financially and environmentally - through improved efficiency, reduced costs and identifying new business opportunities.

Customer choice
Establish yourself as an environmentally aware organisation to increase public trust and attract the ever-increasing number of green consumers.

Competitive advantage
Distinguish yourself from your competitors by taking proactive environmental action that can improve your brand identity and integrity.

Raise your corporate profile
Take a proactive approach to corporate social responsibility and demonstrate environmental leadership by encompassing environmental issues into your corporate values. Corporate values are a key to attracting and retaining the best employees - evidence of genuine corporate values can enhance your employer of choice status.

Reporting & communication
Publicise in reports and communications your practical and measurable environmental initiatives