EPEAT Product Listings for India now live

[Sarah OBrien]

The list of EPEAT registered products for India is now open to public view. Dell and HP have 171 products registered in the PC and Display category, with 150 rated at Silver level and 21 at Gold!

Purchasers in India can now confidently require EPEAT registration as a mark of sustainable purchasing. And each time a bid tender goes out that includes an EPEAT preference or requirement, it raises the environmental bar for all suppliers and drives further product improvements and registration activity.

If you are involved in an organization that procures PCs and Displays through bulk contracts, make sure to include EPEAT - to reduce your organization's environmental footprint, and to demonstrate to suppliers that purchasers care about the environmental impacts of the products they buy and use!

[Srikanth Meesa]

Welcome Sarah. Indeed, I commend the efforts of you and your team at EPEAT. I am curious to see the updates. Do you have any information on the penetration of these products and green  purchasing in the western world. 

[Sarah OBrien]

Yes Srikanth -

It's exciting to see Dell making very strong efforts in creating a closed loop system using recycled plastics from electronics in creation of new electronic products.

EPEAT has contributed since founding to a huge increase in use of Post Consumer Recycled content in electronics. Before EPEAT began offering points for inclusion of PCR content, manufacturers were at best using 1-2% recycled resins. Following implementation of EPEAT in 2006, that figure climbed rapidly, till many products on our registry now claim 10-25% post consumer recycled plastic content. And now Dell is taking it one important step further.

I'll post an analysis done by one of my colleagues on this issue - really eye opening, and a great testament to the power of environmental procurement to drive changes in whole business sectors. 

I can't stress enough the power of 'green' purchasing. Every purchaser that specifies EPEAT helps drive environmental improvements through the electronics supply chain - around the world- as well as reducing his/her own organization's environmental footprint.

[Srikanth Meesa]

Thanks Sarah for sharing the news. This news must be  spread to increase the awareness and encourage people to take the right decisions. I have shared it on twitter.

I noticed this as a co-incidence. Today, I was reading an article - Dell introduces recycled plastic PC and carbon negative packaging.

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[Chandra Kishore]

Congrats Sarah! This is the result of your tireless effort to bring EPEAT standards in electronics to India!