Measurable benefits for the environment
Hundreds of purchasers worldwide have trusted EPEAT for nearly a decade, achieving significant environmental benefits in the process. Over their lifetime, compared to products that do not meet EPEAT criteria, the nearly 500,000 EPEAT-registered computers and displays purchased by the 17 entities recognized with a 2015 EPEAT Purchaser Award will:
- Reduce use of primary materials by 30,486 metric tons, equivalent to the weight of 840 tractor-trailer 18-wheelers
- Reduce use of toxic materials, including mercury, by 10,832 kg, including enough mercury to fill more than 5,000 household mercury fever thermometers
- Avoid the disposal of 351,075 kg of hazardous waste, equivalent to the weight of 2,854 refrigerators
- Eliminate the equivalent of 738 U.S. households’ annual solid waste—1,379 metric tons
Energy-Related Savings
EPEAT’s requirement that registered products meet the latest ENERGY STAR specifications means these products will consume less energy throughout their useful life, resulting in:
- Savings of over 83 million kWh of electricity—enough to power 6,544 U.S. homes for a year
- Avoidance of nearly 160 thousand kilograms of water pollutant emissions
- Reduction of more than 16,000 metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions— equivalent to taking more than 11,500 million average U.S. passenger cars off the road for a year
The 2015 EPEAT Purchaser Award winners are:
Three-Star EPEAT Purchaser Award Winners
- U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
- U.S. Department of Homeland Security
- Federal Law Enforcement Training Center
- Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant, U.S. Department of Energy
- Y-12 National Security Complex, U.S. Department of Energy
- Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, U.S. Department of Energy
- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, U.S. Department of Energy
- National Renewable Energy Laboratory, U.S. Department of Energy
- Oak Ridge Associated Universities
Two-Star EPEAT Purchaser Award Winners
- Kaiser Permanente
- Sandia National Laboratories, U.S. Department of Energy
- Legacy Management, U.S. Department of Energy
- City of Keene, New Hampshire
One-Star EPEAT Purchaser Award Winners
- Shared Services Canada
- East Tennessee Technology Park, U.S. Department of Energy
- Loyola University Chicago
- Bowdoin College