Minneapolis, MN – Maggio 15, 2018 – The Global Electronics Council (GEC), the organization that manages the EPEAT ecolabel, announced its 2018 EPEAT Purchaser Award winners on Maggio 14th at a ceremony in Minneapolis, MN. The awards program honors organizations that show leadership in the procurement of sustainable IT products. This year’s awardees include national and local governments, financial institutions, healthcare organizations, K-12 schools, institutions of higher learning, and businesses from around the globe. When combined, the 2018 EPEAT Purchaser Award winners realized cost savings of more than $82.5 million across the lifetime of their purchased products. Along with significant cost savings, the 53 EPEAT Purchaser Award winners also recognized considerable environmental benefits from their purchasing decisions including combined greenhouse gas reductions equivalent to removing more than 94,000 passenger cars from the road for a year; a reduction of nearly 2,000 metric tons of hazardous waste; solid waste savings equivalent to that produced by more than 4,500 average U.S. households each year; a reduction in energy usage by 798 million kWh; and avoidance of nearly 1,400 metric tons of water pollutant emissions. Large-scale public and private sector purchasers globally rely on the EPEAT Registry, the leading global ecolabel for sustainable IT products, to identify and purchase sustainable IT products. The Global Electronics Council recognized the EPEAT Purchaser Award winners at a ceremony sponsored by the Information Technology Industry Council (ITI), the premier advocacy and policy organization for the world’s leading innovation companies. Award ceremony speakers included purchaser representatives Probuddho Halder from India’s Wipro Limited, and Luke Jannett from the State of Minnesota. Award Winners Award winners were recognized for their purchases in four IT product categories: PCs and Displays, Imaging Equipment, Mobile Phones, and Televisions. Award winners earned one star for each product category in which they committed to purchasing EPEAT registered products.
Vincitori del Premio Quattro Stelle
- Consolidated Nuclear Security, LLC; Complesso di sicurezza nazionale Y-12
- DEA Office of Training
- DEA’s Office of Investigative Technology
- Hackensack Meridian Health
- Kaiser Permanente
- Laboratorio nazionale Lawrence Berkeley
- Laboratorio nazionale per le energie rinnovabili
- Università associate di Oak Ridge
- Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
- Amministrazione dei servizi generali degli Stati Uniti
Vincitori del Premio Tre Stelle
- Laboratorio nazionale di Brookhaven
- Città di Fort Collins, Colorado
- Clinica Cleveland
- Dipartimento degli Affari dei Veterani
- DOE Office of Legacy Management
- El Paso Intelligence Center
- Agenzia per la difesa missilistica
- Mission Support Alliance; CH2M Hill PRC, Washington River Protection Solutions
- US Department of Homeland Security
- US DOE Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
- US DOT Volpe Center
- US Environmental Protection Agency, Region 5
- Wipro, Limited
Vincitori del premio a due stelle
- Alleanza energetica Battelle
- City of Durango, Colorado
- Città di Portland, Oregon
- City of Santa Monica, California
- Commonwealth del Massachusetts
- Divisione DEA di Chicago
- Parco tecnologico del Tennessee orientale
- Esperienza a Scottsdale
- Università Loyola di Chicago
- Minnesota Pollution Control Agency
- Punto di valore NASPO
- Ufficio Informazioni scientifiche e tecniche
- Impianto di diffusione gassosa di Portsmouth, Dipartimento dell'Energia statunitense
- Stato della California
- The University of Wisconsin – Oshkosh
- Il Gruppo Banca Mondiale
- UC Santa Barbara
- Voya Financial
Vincitori del premio One-Star
- Collegio Bowdoin
- Città di Seattle, Washington
- DEA Miami Southeast Laboratory
- DEA Western Laboratory
- Drug Enforcement Administration, Northeast Laboratory
- Dipartimento dei Trasporti del Maryland
- New York State Office of General Services – Procurement Services
- North Central Laboratory – US DEA
- Providence Schools
- Scottish Government
- Servizi condivisi Canada
- Università di Stanford
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