Green purchasing is about choosing to buy products and services that are less damaging to our environment and human health than than competing products and services that serve the same purpose, and is based on the simple premise that every product purchased impacts our environment.
When your organisation takes that first step on the journey towards best practice environmental purchasing the ripples are far-reaching.
ECO-Buy can work with your organisation as you progress along the green product continuum to purchase ‘greener’ products than those you are currently buying – we don’t insist you buy the ‘greenest’ product, but prefer to work with you to help you choose ‘greener’ products.
Your organisation can achieve this by looking at the environmental impacts of one or more of the following aspects of the product’s life cycle:
• Source of raw materials
• Production & manufacturing
• Packaging
• Distribution
• Potential for reuse and recycling
• Operation
• Maintenance, and/or
• Disposal of the product