GREEN PROCUREMENT CHECKLIST

							GREEN PROCUREMENT CHECKLIST
1.0 General Information
Date
Company Name
Street Address
City
State/Province
ZIP Code/Postal Code
Country

Person Responding
Title
Phone number
Fax number
Email



Product Categories

2.0     General Environmental Management Questions
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1. Does your company have an Environmental Management System in place
such as ISO 14000 or EMAS, or; is part of a certification program such as
Environment Canada's Eco Logo Program or US equivalent?
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2. Does your company regularly publish an environmental report that is
available to the public?
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3. Does your company regularly conduct internal environmental audits?
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4. Is your company free of convictions and/or orders regarding
environmental permits/licences/certificates of approvals?
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3.0      Product Material Composition
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6. What % of your product offering is free from persistent bioaccumulative
toxic pollutants and other harmful chemicals as listed in Environment
Canada's Toxic Substances List?
http://www.ec.gc.ca/CEPARegistry/subs_list/
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                                                                                                          0%        1-25%      26-50%     51-75%   76-99%   100%
7. What % of your product offering does not require an MSDS sheet?
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8. What % of your product offering is free of mercury (Hg) (liquid reagents less
than 10 ppb Hg)?
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9. What % of your product offering is free of halogenated plastics such as
polyvinyl chloride (PVC)?
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10. What % of your product offering is free from required special permits or
personal protective equipment for handling, storage and/or disposal as
required by government regulations?
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4.0      Manufacturing
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11. Does your facility have an active program to reduce hazardous wastes?

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12. Are your manufacturing processes free of materials that are required to
be reported under Environment Canada's National Pollutant Release
Inventory (NPRI) or the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's toxic release
inventory (TRI)?
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13. Have manufacturing processes been evaluated for energy consumption
and efforts made to practice energy conservation?
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14. Does your facility use post-consumer recycled material in the
manufacturing process?
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5.0      Packaging & Distribution
                                                                                                         YES          NO           #N/A
16. Are your products packaged in at least 50% post-consumer recycled
materials?
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17. Are your products packaged in materials that are free of chlorine
bleached materials?
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18. Are your products packaged in materials free of inks containing heavy
metals (lead, mercury, cadmium, hexavalent chromium, etc.)?
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19. Are your products packaged in materials free of halogenated plastics
such as polyvinyl chloride (PVC)?
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20. Are company arrangements or infrastructure in place to take back
consumer product packaging from the user of this product for reuse and/or
recycling?
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21. Does your company provide fuel efficiency training to transport truck
drivers, and/or actively participates in a program such as FleetSmart through
Natural Resources Canada?
http://oee.nrcan.gc.ca/transportation/fleetsmart.cfm
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22. Are company arrangements or infrastructure in place to support
customer requests for bulk packaging to reduce trips to and from
manufacturer to consumer?
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6.0      Use and Service
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23. What % of your product offering does not require special handling and/or
disposal procedures during its use or routine maintenance?
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24. What % of your product offering is free of chemical changes in its normal
use that could be of concern (such as leaching of chemicals from the




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7.0      End-of-Life
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27. What % of your product offering is designed for easy separation to
enhance reuse or remanufacture of components or recycling of materials?

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28. Are product parts labeled to enhance separation and recycling?
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29. What % of your product offering, if disposed of by incineration, is unlikely
to create toxic halogenated compounds such as dioxin?
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30. What % of your product offering has procedures in place or functioning
to recover this product after primary use for reuse or recycling?

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                                               We would like to thank you for competing this questionnaire!




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