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EPEAT’s environmental criteria are contained in a public standard, IEEE 1680. To purchase a copy of IEEE 1680 visit http://shop.ieee.org/ieeestore/ and
search for 1680.
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It is necessary to own a copy of the IEEE 1680 standard in order to declare a product.
Note that the standard contains essential information that is not available on this web site.
Purchase a copy of the standard here.
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EPEAT evaluates electronic products in relation to 51 total environmental criteria, identified in the Criteria Table below and contained in IEEE 1680 -– 23 required criteria and 28 optional criteria.
To qualify for registration
as an EPEAT product, the product must conform to all the required criteria.
Products are also ranked in EPEAT according to three tiers of environmental performance - Bronze, Silver, and Gold. All registered products must meet the required criteria, and achieve Bronze status.
Manufacturers may then achieve a higher level EPEAT “rating” for products by meeting additional optional criteria, as follows:
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Meets all 23 required criteria
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Meets all 23 required criteria plus at least 50% of the optional
criteria
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Meets all 23 required criteria plus at least 75% of the optional
criteria
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Most EPEAT criteria refer to environmental performance characteristics of the specific product, and must be declared for each product registered. Some criteria relate to general corporate programs, such as a Corporate Environmental Policy or Environmental Management System. These Corporate Criteria apply to all of a given manufacturer’s EPEAT registered products and participating manufacturers declare to these criteria annually.
The IEEE 1680 Standard contains the full text of each criterion, to what types of product the criterion applies, what information a manufacturer must be prepared to provide to EPEAT to demonstrate conformance with the criterion, and additional references and details. To see these important details, and to register any product in EPEAT, the Standard must be purchased from IEEE.
Standard
Interpretations and Clarifications
Over
the course of EPEAT’s first two years and two verification rounds,
the need for clarification and interpretation of some portions of the
IEEE 1680 standard has become clear. In response, an IEEE Stakeholder
Interpretations Group has issued some formal Interpretations of IEEE
1680, and the EPEAT Product Verification Committee (PVC) has issued
some statements clarifying how they will interpret and apply specific
criteria during verification. A detailed index of both
Interpretations and Clarifications is available here.
Additional Resources
EPEAT Criteria Table
The following table contains only the title of each of the 51 criteria for
easy reference. For a more detailed summary of the standard, please click here.
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