Air Force Information Technology Commodity Council

• Reduce use of primary materials by 17 metric tons, equivalent to the weight of 3,319 elephants
• Avoid the disposal of 145 metric tons of hazardous waste, equal to the weight of 1,198 refrigerators
• Eliminate the equivalent of 278 U.S. households’ solid waste for a year—517 metric tons
• Avoidance of 101 metric tons of water pollutant emissions

Energy-Related Savings
EPEAT’s requirement that registered products meet, and often exceed, the latest ENERGY STAR specifications means these products will consume less energy throughout their useful life, resulting in:

• Savings of 55,900 MWh of electricity—enough to power 4,602 U.S. households for a year
• Greenhouse gas emissions reduction of 34,359 metric tons of CO2 equivalents—equal to taking 7,357 average U.S. passenger cars off the road for a year
• $5,770,000 in lifetime cost savings