Green Buying

The Department of General Services is dedicated to purchasing policies and practices that lessen our impact on the environment while saving energy and preserving natural resources.

You'll find plenty of resources on this page to help you with environmentally preferable purchasing decisions.

• The California Environmentally Preferable Purchasing (EPP) Best Practices Manual: In partnership with the EPP Task Force and the California Integrated Waste Management Board, the DGS has created an online guide to buying green, including chapters on office supplies and copier paper.
  
• Access a full-color, EPP brochure.(Pdf)
  
• Find out about buying recycled-content products and California's State Agency Buy Recycled Campaign.

• DGS Sustainable Copy Paper Policy (Administrative Order 06-04)

Green Purchasing Standards and Contracts

• CA Contracts Guide 
• Office Supplies Contract
• CMAS (CA Multiple Award Schedule) Contracts with Green/Recycled Content
• California Gold Sustainable Carpet Standard
• California Low-mercury Lamp Contract