FGC Webinar: Simplifying Sustainable Purchasing Through Guidelines and Standards

Making it Easier to Buy Greener Products and Services

This FGC webinar covered EPA’s effort to simplify green purchasing through recommendations of specifications, standards, and ecolabels. EPA’s work in this area is intended to help federal purchasers identify and procure environmentally sustainable products and services.

Featured Speakers

• Jenna Larkin, Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics, Environmentally Preferable Purchasing Program (EPP).
• Steven Birchfield, Field Operations Supervisor, Food Composting Operations, Prince George's County Organics Composting Facility.

Webinar Materials

• View the Webinar
• FGC Webinar Presentation: Simplifying Sustainable Purchasing (pdf) (2.6 MB, 3/14/2018)
  Recommendations of Specifications, Standards, and Ecolabels presentation by Jenna Larkin, EPA Office of Pollution Prevention & Toxics (OPPT) Environmentally Preferable Purchasing Program (EPP).
• FGC Webinar Presentation: Composting Food Scraps (pdf) (2.25 MB, 3/14/2018)
  Presentation by Steven Birchfield, Food Composting Operations, Maryland Environmental Service.