Table 3: Green Procurement

Green Procurement
1.	How is your department planning to meet the objectives of the Policy on Green Procurement?
	The Canada Industrial Relations Board is planning to carry out/follow the Policy on Green Procurement by reducing environmental impact of its operations and by promoting responsible integration of environmental performance considerations, when applicable. This will be achieved by analyzing and evaluating the total life cycle of goods and services to be purchased.
2.	Has your department established green procurement targets?
	In progress
3.	Describe the green procurement targets that have been set by your department and indicate the associated benefits anticipated.
	(a) Consider and implement the reduction, reuse and recycling possibilities throughout the life cycle, from as early as the contracting planning phase to the disposal phase. (b) Evaluate potential suppliers’ ability and/or capacity to satisfy the environmental performance criteria. (c) Carry out asset disposal in the most environmentally responsible way, such as waste minimization and/or diversion. It is anticipated that the benefits of the Policy on Green Procurement, as it applies to the CIRB will reduce waste, while carrying out reuse and recycling programs, making better use of assets, prolonging life of goods and ensuring that the goods and services procured are less damaging to the environment.

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