Sustainable Purchasing Articles

On September 25, 2015, EPA published Recommendations for Specifications, Environmental Performance Standards, and Ecolabels for Federal Procurement. The notice describes EPA's recommendations for federal agencies that are purchasing environmentally-friendly products. Section 3(i) of Executive Order 13693, ...

Oct. 1, 2015

By Bergeson & Campbell, P.C.

This article presents the trends, challenges, and priorities in sustainable procurement in 2012 identified by the Municipal Collaboration on Sustainable Purchasing and Reeve Consulting.  Sustainable procurement refers to the purchasing of goods and services that is not based on unit cost alone. In this type of procurement, total cost of ownership (TCO) and environmental and ethical impacts ...

Mar. 23, 2013

By Reeve Consulting

Firms look for procuring a sustainable advantage over their competitors. Therefore, they should be both operationally and strategically efficient. However, as firms work with other companies, they are under threats of misunderstanding, inefficiency, difficult synchronisations, etc. These threats will be transformed into real business traps. In this paper, authors propose a global framework which ...

Aug. 16, 2011

By Inderscience Publishers

BT demands its suppliers to measure, report and reduce their carbon footprint with new sustainable procurement ...

Mar. 8, 2011

By Vital Efficienci Ltd.

The aim of this paper is to highlight the Slovene and EU regulation of social care service for the elderly from the view of possible implementation of public?private partnerships (PPPs) institutes in this sector. The authors discuss the economic rationale for implementing of PPP in the field of the social public service of providing care for the elderly. The Slovene PPP forms are two-fold: as a ...

Sep. 30, 2010

By Inderscience Publishers

Almost half of the Earth’s original forest cover has been converted to other land uses (Bryant et al., 1997). Although estimated rates of net loss seem to indicate a slowdown, the total forest area continues to decrease; today forests extend over an estimated 30% of the total land area (FAO, 2006). Interest in procurement of wood and paper-based goods produced in a sustainable manner is growing. ...

May 27, 2008

By World Resources Institute WRI

Decisions regarding the purchase and use of wood and paper-based products can have far-reaching, long-term impacts for the forests where they are harvested, the communities supported by wood-using industries, and the places where those products are purchased and used. The information in this joint WRI/WBCSD publication is organized around ten key issues, posed as “essential questions” that ...

Oct. 1, 2007

By World Business Council for Sustainable Development