Green guide for buyers

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Introduction

This guide is designed primarily to help buyers across Government departments and their agencies to make more efficient choices, and thereby reduce the impact of their buying decisions on the environment and on the livelihoods of those who live within it. This part of the website is broken down into the following sections:

• Overview
• Best practice on procurement procedures
• Best practice in procurement areas

See also:

• Quick Wins
• Joint Note on Environmental issues in Purchasing

Overview

Best practice on procurement - procedures

• EU procurement directives
• Five good reasons for buying green
• Supply chain management
• Legislative compliance
• Resource efficiency - practising the four 'R's in procurement
• Public private partnerships
• Specification - tackling risks and contract compliance
• Substantiating environmental claims
• Whole life costs
• Ethical implications of greening procurement
• Social implications of greening procurement

Best practice on procurement procedures

• Asbestos (Action sheet)
• Batteries (Action sheet)
• Climate Change (Action sheet)
• Energy Efficiency (Action sheet)
• Hazardous Substances (Action sheet)
• IT - Green Guide
• Noise (Action sheet)
• Ozone Depleting Substances (Action sheet)
• Paper (Action sheet)
• Timber
• Transport (Action sheet)
• Waste (Action sheet)
• Water (Action sheet)
• Wood (Action sheet)

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• Overarching commitments
• Travel
• Water
• Waste
• Energy
• Procurement
• Estates management
• Biodiversity
• Social impacts

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