Use carbon and other environmental indicators for purchasing to avoid environmentally irresponsible products and corporations. Coordinate this effort with other universities.  These indicators should be incorporated into the campus sustainable purchasing policies.

Through the Illinois Procurement Code, 30 ILCS 500/45-26, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (U of I) is obligated to contract for supplies and services that are environmentally preferable, unless contracting for an environmentally preferable supply or service would impose an undue economic or practical hardship on the contracting State agency, or if an environmentally preferable supply or service cannot be used to meet the requirements of the department.

By establishing this EPP Guide, U of I will bring recycling full circuit through the purchasing of products that contain recycled content; it will stimulate markets for the recyclables the University collects. With this guide, U of I and its departments are committed to purchasing products that are made of recycled materials when they are available at reasonable prices. Specifications for contracts, at the discretion of the requesting department, may include a price preference of up to 10% for environmentally preferable supplies and/or services.