You know how hot carbon footprints, recycling and energy efficiency are right now, well Computacenter are introducing the Green Electronics Council’s EPEAT system, that stands for the snappily titled “Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool System” a tool designed to help identify the environmental friendliness of IT equipment. Based on a system of 23 criteria (I’ve just looked at this and it’s a little mind-boggling) it is designed to help both purchasers and manufacturers move towards more environmentally preferable products. Now I think this is a great idea but I know that in our company at least we sometimes find it difficult enough to implement very basic green practices like reducing paper usage, recycling paper, cardboard etc and helping our customers to dispose conscientiously by implementing the WEEE scheme I think it will take a while for this to become mainstream practice – no excuse really we should all have been doing this a long time ago!
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Actually, the EPEAT system is very easy to use. There are almost 600 computers from more than 20 manufacturers already registered. Many of the most popular business computers are on the EPEAT list. Odds are good that you are buying EPEAT registered green computers without even knowing it. Of course, it would be better if the manufacturers knew you were buying them in part because of their green features.
Interesting that the EPEAT system is so well used by manufacturers but not so well known by users, you would think that businesses and organisations would have started to implement buying policies around green issues and that manufacturers would see this as a sales benefit; and yet I read in this month’s copy of Datacentre Managementthat nearly 70% of UK businesses have no target to reduce their carbon footprint (research from the Green Technology Initiative) and are instead looking to suppliers and the government to carry the responsibility for bringing down emissions.
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