# Kaiser Permanente Earns Top Marks in 2015 EPEAT Purchaser Awards

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- Published: 2015-05-22T02:17:13-04:00
- Author: greenlivingguy

## The Green Electronics Council recognizes the sole health-care system to win an award for its commitment to purchasing environmentally preferable electronics.

PORTLAND, Oregon – May 14, 2015 – The Green Electronics Council today announced 
during CleanMed that Kaiser Permanente is the first health-care system to win an
EPEAT Purchaser Award.

The EPEAT Purchaser Awards recognize excellence in the procurement of environmentally
preferable electronics. In addition, Kaiser Permanente is one of the nation’s leading
health care providers and not-for-profit health plans. For it earned an award for
also buying laptops. Moreover desktops, tablets, monitors, printers and multifunction
devices. Those registered in the EPEAT rating system.

Thousands of purchasers worldwide have used EPEAT for more than eight years. All
to select greener electronic products. Thereby achieving significant environmental
benefits. For example, the lifecycle environmental benefit

[1] of Kaiser Permanente’s purchase of EPEAT-registered products in 2014 will:

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 1. Deliver an estimated $7.9 million in cost savings from energy efficiency
 2. Eliminate mercury use equivalent to more than 1,900 mercury fever thermometers
 3. Reduce [solid waste](https://greenlivingguy.com/2020/06/creating-power-from-municipal-solid-waste-best-use-of-waste/)
    by nearly 750 metric tons, equivalent to 400 U.S. households’ annual waste generation
 4. Prevent the release of nearly 8,500 metric tons of greenhouse gases, equivalent
    to removing more than 6,000 passenger cars from the road for a year

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### Award Recipients

EPEAT Purchaser Award recipients were recognized for their procurement efforts in
up to three product categories – PCs and Displays, Imaging Equipment and Televisions–
earning a star for each category in which they purchased environmentally preferable
electronics. Kaiser Permanente, a two-star winner. One was one of 17 EPEAT Purchaser
Award recipients in 2015. It’s a group that also included higher-education and municipal,
state and Federal government entities.

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**_Sources: EPEAT, _**[**_The Green Electronics Council_**](https://greenelectronicscouncil.org/)

[1] Results based on comparison with products that do not meet EPEAT environmental
criteria, calculated using the U.S. EPA’s Electronics Environmental Benefits Calculator
and by multiplying the average lifespan of each product type in the Kaiser system
by its annual energy cost savings.