Sustainable Marketplace: Greener Products and Services

Buying Green for Federal Purchasers

The federal government is the single largest consumer in the United States, spending over $450 billion each year on a wide variety of products and services. The Environmentally Preferable Program (EPP) was designed to help federal agencies purchase greener products and use this spending power to support these efforts.

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As federal purchasers, you have an opportunity to use that tremendous demand to drive increased availability for greener products and services globally by:

  • Minimizing environmental impacts
  • Supporting manufacturers that produce environmentally-preferable products and services

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