Contact Pacific Southwest Waste Program
Pacific Southwest, Region 9
Serving: Arizona, California, Hawaii, Nevada, Pacific Islands, Tribal Nations
Solid Waste Projects
Resource Conservation Fund
Environmentally Preferable Purchasing
Hawaii Department of Business, Economic Development & Tourism, Honolulu, HI, FY04, $30,000
State Environmentally Preferable Purchasing Project
The State of Hawaii supported and tracked state agency environmentally preferable purchasing. During the project, the state's survey found that 90% of State agency office paper purchases have recycled content paper and more than $750,000 was spent overall on recycled content products. The paper purchases alone resulted in the following environmental savings:
- 1,628 trees
- 488,460 gallons of water
- 286,089 kilowatt hours of electricity
- 4,187 pounds of air pollution
Contact:
Timonie Hood (hood.timonie@epa.gov)
(415) 972-3282