Green Purchasing
LANL is committed to purchasing and using environmentally preferable products.
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Purchasing Green Products
Our goal is to purchase items that contain recycled content except when the items are not available at a reasonable price or do not meet performance standards.
Environmentally preferable means products or services that have a smaller effect on human health and the environment when compared with competing products or services that serve the same purpose.
What are green products?
Green products are ideally:
- Reusable
- Recycled - containing post-consumer material or recovered material
- Recyclable - consisting of components that can be completely recycled
- Bio-based
- Bio-degradable
- Energy efficient
- Water or energy conserving
- Free of pollutants
- Packaged with minimal materials
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Tree Death Study's Climate Change Connections
What are the exact physiological mechanisms that lead to tree death during prolonged drought and rising temperatures? These are the question...
