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Purchasing For Green Hotels

Purchasing For Green Hotels. Purchasing For Green Hotels. Solutions for Revenue, Health and Communication. Heidi Siegelbaum Steve Gersman. In 20 minutes…. The Story of Stuff What is Green Purchasing Product Categories Standards and Certification Benefits The Process

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Purchasing For Green Hotels

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  1. Purchasing For Green Hotels

  2. Purchasing For Green Hotels Solutions for Revenue, Health and Communication Heidi Siegelbaum Steve Gersman

  3. In 20 minutes… • The Story of Stuff • What is Green Purchasing • Product Categories • Standards and Certification • Benefits • The Process • Where to Go for Help

  4. What is Purchasing Really About? THE STORY OF STUFF • http://www.storyofstuff.com • This is the story of everything your hotel buys. That story? • Extraction, Production, Distribution, Consumption and Disposal

  5. Production of Stuff includes People • Along the way of making products or “stuff”, we affect societies, cultures, environment and people • We live in a finite planet which means the resources are not endless and will in fact run out if not managed for long term use • Drinking water and food are great examples

  6. Changing The Face of Production

  7. What is Green Purchasing? • Environmentally Preferable Purchasing Purchasing products and services that have a lesser or reduced effect on human health and the environment when compared with competing products or services that serve the same purpose

  8. Drivers • Reduce costs, increase profit • Reduce storage and handling • Reduce worker risks and liabilities • Respond to guest interests in your green practices • Help protect local environment • Marketing differentiation • Improve associate and guest health • Reduce environmental impacts overall

  9. Product Categories • Office supplies: all paper, office equipment • F&B: electronics, kitchen equipment, and food • Hotel wide: Lighting, carpets, interior design elements, cleaning products • Rooms: bedding, furniture, drapes, amenities

  10. Getting Started Ideally, a green purchasing strategy should fit into an overall environmental management plan– otherwise, choices tend to be opportunistic or champion driven

  11. Steps • Create a baseline- what are you purchasing now. Who is involved and how are decisions made? • Determine objectives and priorities and draft a purchasing policy • Form a cross-department team with dedicated lead • Look at existing lists • Pilot test products with users

  12. Barriers • Habit- people don’t like change • Product love- users develop unusually strong commitments to certain products they don’t want to give up • No user testing of new green products • Supplier love- your suppliers may feel threatened and you really like your suppliers • Perception: green products don’t perform or are tacky

  13. Greenwashing • Misleading claims by sellers or manufacturers about the green attributes of product or service • You are particularly vulnerable: early stages of innovation, green explosion of products and you know what else

  14. Six Sins of Greenwashing A Terrachoice 2007 Report revealed that most products didn’t live up to their green claims. • Irrelevance • No Proof • Hidden Trade-Off • Fibbing • Vagueness • Lesser of Two Evils

  15. Criteria • Less toxic • Recycled content and recyclable locally • Remanufactured or reconditioned • Durable with warranties • Energy efficient • Water efficient • Take back potential • Biobased • Reduced life cycle impacts

  16. Standards and Certification Orgs • EPA: Environmentally Preferable Purchasing program (Comprehensive Purchasing Guidelines), Energy Star and Design for Environment • GreenSeal • EcoLogo • Responsible Purchasing

  17. Performance Standards Orgs • National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) • ASTM International • ISO • Scientific Certification Systems • Master Painters Institute

  18. Local Help Seattlewww.seattle.gov/environment/purchasing.htm King Countywww.metrokc.gov/procure/green Ecologywww.ecy.wa.gov/beyondwaste/epp/stand_certifications.html

  19. Product Specific Criteria • Electronics: EPEAT • Green Building Products: US Green Building Council • Forest Products: Forest Stewardship Council • Recycled Content Products: EPA’s CPG • Food: Organic Trade Association • Low Emission: Greenguard

  20. Priority: Electronics • Loaded with the nasties: mercury, cadmium, lead, hexavalent chromium, PVCs • Planned obsolescence • Exploding number of gadgets/upgrades • Many recyclers export it as a product with value but it’s really electronic trash

  21. Electronics In Context Environmentally Preferable Electronics Assessment Tool:www.epeat.net Northwest Product Stewardship Councilwww.productstewardship.net Electronics Take back Coalition www.computertakeback.com Basel Action Network www.ban.org

  22. Cleaning Chemicals: Priority • Indoor air quality- corrosive chemicals, solvents, asthmagens • Chemicals in products very poorly regulated - most chemicals used in products and personal care products have never been tested • Raises workmen’s compensation and liability issues

  23. Energy Star Calculator www.energystar.gov/index.cfm?c=bulk_purchasing.bus_purchasing This tool covers commercial appliances, foodservice, heating & cooling, lighting, electronics, office products and construction products

  24. Building Tools and Programs Seattle Green Building Programwww.seattle.gov/dpd/greenbuilding BEES www.bfrl.nist.gov/oae/software/bees Building Energy Software Tools Directory www.eere.energy.gov/buildings/tools_directory/subjects_sub.cfm Whole Building Design Guide Tools Index www.wbdg.org/tools/tools.php

  25. Paper tools Paper Calculatorhttp://www.edf.org/papercalculator.org Paper Choiceswww.conservatree.org Forest Stewardship Council:www.fscus.org

  26. Carpets Spanking brand new standard National Sanitation Foundation (NSF) 140-1007 (low VOCs, recycled content)

  27. Other Subjects Cleaningwww.ofee.gov & www.ewg.org Paper www.edf.org/papercalculator Renewable Energywww.green-e.org Low Emissions Productswww.greenguard.org

  28. Sleeping Lady • Office supplies purchased through Corporate Express • GreenSeal, Energy Star, and Green Hotel Association used to identify products • Local, wild, hormone free and organic food served where possible • Compostable disposable cups

  29. Sleeping Lady • Indoor Air quality and Health: Furniture is low VOC, easily upholstered and solvent/formaldehyde free • All natural latex foam, jutte webbing, formaldehyde free stains and FSC wood among other • Some of their practices qualify for LEED points as well

  30. The Umbrella Tells All Life cycle and consumption: THE STORY OF STUFF (FAB) www.storyofstuff.com

  31. Gracious Thanks • EcoLogo- Scot Case • Ecology EPP program- Tina Smimich • King County Procurement- Karen Hamilton • Pacific NW Pollution Prevention Resource Center • King County/Seattle Public Health- Tracee Mayfield • Responsible Purchasing • Seattle Sustainable Purchasing- Shirli Axelrod • Sleeping Lady, Rebecca Darley

  32. Thank you! Cascadia Sustainable Tourism Heidi@cascadiasustain.com (206) 784-4265 Steve@cascadiasustain.com (425) 922-0102

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