Attachment B

Federal Sources of Recycled Content and Environmentally Preferable Products^1/

General

Thousands of recycled content and environmentally preferable products are available to procuring agencies and their contractors through established Federal supply sources, and new items are continuously being added.  Federal sources of EPA-designated items, and other recycled content and environmentally preferable products, are listed in Table B.1

Table B.1  Federal Sources of Recycled Content
and Environmentally Preferable Products

Examples of other environmental products available through GSA's Federal Supply Service include:

·        Energy and water saving items; and

·        Items that have been chemically reformulated to be less detrimental to the environment.

GSA Federal Supply Service

GSA produces several publications (Table B.2) to assist customers to identify and requisition products.

Table B.2  GSA Federal Supply Service Publications

In addition, GSA provides GSA Advantage!, an on-line shopping mall that offers the convenience of purchasing more than one million products and services, including recycled content and environmentally preferable products, to Federal employees with the click of a button.  The URL is www.gsaadvantage.gov.

The FSS publications are available through:

Centralized Mailing List Service (CMLS)
P.O. Box 6477
Fort Worth, TX 76115
Phone: (817) 334-5215
Fax: (817) 334-5227

            Retread Tires

The Army’s Tank-automotive and Armaments Command (TACOM) now manages the retread tires program formerly managed by GSA.  TACOM offers a Military Retread Program for tactical tires, a Cooperative Tire Qualification Program (CTQP) for non-tactical tires, and a retread facility inspection program, called the Cooperative Plant Quality Certification (CPQC).  The CTQP applies to passenger car tires, light truck tires, truck and bus tires, and off-road low speed tires.  As with GSA’s program, the CTQP tests tires using an on-vehicle test.  A Cooperative Approval Tire List (CATL) is published for government use; it lists all the qualified manufacturers brand names, tread class, and codes by tire group.  The current listing of qualified manufacturers and brands can be found on the White House Task Force on Recycling’s web site, www.ofee.gov, under Recycled Content.

            Government Printing Office

A variety of recycled content printing and writing papers are available through GPO.   Procurement originators should work through their Agency field printing organizations to request recycled paper for publications produced through GPO's Regional Printing and Procurement Offices, which are listed in Table B.3.

Table B.3  GPO Regional Printing & Procurement Offices

^1/  For additional sources, see Greening the Government, A Guide to Implementing Executive Order 13101 (published in 2000 by the White House Task Force on Waste Prevention and Recycling, (202) 564-1297).