Our choice of raw materials can impact on the social, economic and environmental issues of Sustainable Development. Informed and prudent choices can help reduce or avoid negative effects and can encourage positive impacts.
Sustainability
- Rethink need
- Reduce, re-use, recycle
Sustainable Procurement
- Invoke the Flexible Framework approach
- Address lifecycle impacts by selecting materials and equipment from sustainable sources, with the lowest embodied AND in-use environmental impacts and with high recycled content
- End of life, consider goods that can be recycled or can become waste to energy items. Where appropriate negotiate options with suppliers/contractors
