At Redcliff, our goal is to purchase products and services that have a reduced effect on human health and the Earth compared to competing products and services used for the same purpose. As a result, we are reducing both our consumption of resources and our costs, while simultaneously ensuring healthier workplaces for our tenants. This approach means integrating environmental factors into procurement policies through the use of tools and methods that include:- Pollution Prevention: From the start of a process or procedure, reducing or eliminating toxicity, air and water emissions.
- Life-Cycle Perspective: Looking beyond purchase price to consider costs and environmental impacts over the lifetime of a product or service (manufacturing, packaging, transport, energy consumption, maintenance, disposal).
- Natural Resource Protection: Giving preference to sustainable, reusable content and recycled materials over virgin materials, as well as to conserving water and energy.
- Reduced material costs for manufacturers.
- Reduced repair and replacement costs when using more durable and repairable equipment.
- Reduced disposal costs by generating less waste.
- Improved product design and performance of the product(s).
- Increased employee safety and health at the facility.
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