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The goal of the EPEAT system is to make it easy for purchasers to select
environmentally preferable electronic products and in doing so, reward
manufacturers for their environmental design efforts and create environmental
benefits.
To ensure that EPEAT ‘green’ electronics are easy to find and to purchase,
EPEAT provides resources and support to purchasers, resellers and others
working to advance environmental improvement in the electronics marketplace
through EPEAT Partner programs. These programs and eligibility are described
below.
For program details, click on the titles below, or click on Join Now to access
the membership signup pages.
EPEAT Partner Resellers commit to providing updated EPEAT registry information
through their online catalogs and web portals, to ensure that purchasers know
products’ registration status at time of purchase. They also commit to
providing their sales force with orientation to EPEAT, so that they can
knowledgably assist customers, and to helping purchasers to report on their
annual EPEAT purchases by product type and tier. EPEAT Partner Resellers pay an
annual membership fee based on sales. JOIN NOW!
Distributors can partner with EPEAT to provide EPEAT product rating information
and marketing resources to their participating channel partners of all types.
EPEAT works with distributors to present trainings, provide materials and
promote their EPEAT activities. Through EPEAT partnership activities,
distributors provide valuable support to their resellers partners, enabling
them to knowledgeably respond to end users desire to green their IT operations.
Distributor Partners pay an annual membership fee. To join EPEAT as a
distributor partner, contact
us .
EPEAT Purchasing Partners are government, education, healthcare and nonprofit
organizations that commit to improve their environmental performance by
purchasing EPEAT registered products to the greatest extent feasible.
Purchasing Partners report annually on their EPEAT purchasing and receive
recognition for their EPEAT efforts. Organizations may participate individually
or as part of an EPEAT program established by a Purchasing Partner Champion
group. Participation in the EPEAT Purchasing Partner program is free of cost.
JOIN NOW
Purchasing Champions
EPEAT Purchasing Champions are groups that seek to improve the environmental
performance of their members or the general public by promoting the EPEAT
Purchasing Partner program. For example an association may advise its member
organizations to specify EPEAT products in contracts and become part of the
EPEAT Purchasing Partner program, or a national environmental organization may
encourage local chapters to become EPEAT Purchasing Partners as part of a
larger Green IT initiative. Each organization can shape its activities to suit
its capacities and organizational agenda – EPEAT staff work with Champions to
support and recognize their activities.
Contact us to learn more.
EPEAT Enterprise partners are for-profit businesses that work with EPEAT to
support their green electronics purchasing efforts. Enterprise Partner annual
membership fees are based on company size and provide access to purchaser
training, contract development assistance, asset analysis reporting and
environmental benefits assessment services. By partnering with EPEAT to obtain
these services, EPEAT Enterprise Partners can develop materials for use in
sustainability reporting and internal and external media, as well as being
featured in EPEAT media outreach and web materials.
Contact us to learn more.
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