EPEAT®-registered products meet strict environmental criteria. From fewer toxins in manufacturing to efficient operation and easier recycling, EPEAT-registered products offer a reduced environmental impact across their lifecycles.
EPEAT’s manufacturer subscribers must annually report on their sales of all EPEAT registered products. The lifecycle environmental benefits of those sales are calculated using the Electronics Environmental Benefits Calculator (EEBC), developed under a grant from U.S. EPA. Here are the highlights from EPEAT’s 2010 Environmental Benefits Report:
Measurable benefits for the environment
Over their lifetime, compared to products that do not meet EPEAT criteria, EPEAT registered notebooks, desktops, and monitors purchased worldwide in 2010 will:
- Reduce use of primary materials by 15.7 million metric tons, equivalent to the weight of 48 Empire State Buildings
- Reduce use of toxic materials, including mercury, by 1,156 metric tons, equivalent to the weight of 192 elephants.
- Eliminate use of enough mercury to fill 437,048 household mercury fever thermometers.
- Avoid the disposal of 59,525 metric tons of hazardous waste, equivalent to the weight of 4 Eiffel Towers.
- Eliminate the equivalent of more than 16,052 US households’ annual solid waste—31,991 metric tons
Energy-Related Savings
EPEAT’s requirement that registered products meet the latest ENERGY STAR specifications means these products will consume less energy throughout their useful life, resulting in:
- Savings of over 9 billion kWh of electricity—enough to power 757,416 US homes for a year.
- Avoidance of 36 million metric tons of air emissions (including greenhouse gas emissions) and over 77 thousand metric tons of water pollutant emissions.
- Reduction of over 1.6 million metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions— equivalent to taking nearly 1.1 million US passenger cars off the road for a year
Download Full 2010 Report or Executive Summary.
Access previous years’ Environmental Benefits reports.
Electronics Environmental Benefits Calculator (EEBC)
To calculate the environmental benefits from the purchase of a specific EPEAT-registered product, use the Electronics Environmental Benefits Calculator (EEBC).