{"id":2168,"date":"2020-08-07T09:36:59","date_gmt":"2020-08-07T08:36:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.gov.scot\/public-procurement\/?p=2168"},"modified":"2020-08-07T11:13:54","modified_gmt":"2020-08-07T10:13:54","slug":"epeat-purchaser-awards-winner-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.gov.scot\/public-procurement\/2020\/08\/07\/epeat-purchaser-awards-winner-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"EPEAT Purchaser Awards winner 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are delighted once again to be announced among the winners at the Green Electronics Council,\u00a0annual <a href=\"https:\/\/greenelectronicscouncil.org\/awards-events\/epeat-purchaser\/\">\u00a0EPEAT Purchaser Awards<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The award recognises the excellence and leadership that our collaborative ICT Team provide in the procurement of sustainable IT products, which reduce environmental impact across their lifecycle.<\/p>\n<p>EPEAT accredited devices are more energy efficient, less toxic, longer lasting, and easier to recycle than products that do not meet EPEAT eco-label standards, while addressing labour and human rights issues along the entire supply chain.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Environmental Benefits<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Green Electronics Council estimate that over their lifetime, IT products purchased through <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.scot\/publications\/frameworks-and-contracts\/\">Scottish Procurement frameworks<\/a> in 2019 will result in a number of environmental benefits. These include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Savings of 64,230 MWh of electricity (equivalent to the average annual electricity consumption of over 22,000 UK households)<\/li>\n<li>A reduction of greenhouse gas emissions of 40,978 metric tons of CO2 equivalents (equal to taking almost 14,000 cars off UK roads for a year)<\/li>\n<li>A reduction of 165 metric tons in hazardous waste and 22,871 metric tons of primary materials<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Our success in the global EPEAT awards programme is recognition of our continued determination to deliver the highest levels of sustainability and environmental benefits to the Scottish public sector.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Green Electronics Council recognises Scottish Procurement<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":453,"featured_media":2170,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[147,54,10,55,138],"tags":[260,261,62,142,6,97,263],"class_list":["post-2168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-framework-agreements","category-ict","category-procurement-news","category-scottish-procurement","category-sustainability","tag-epeat","tag-epeat-purchaser-awards","tag-framework-agreements","tag-ict-products","tag-scottish-procurement","tag-scottish-public-sector","tag-sustainability"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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