The DOE and its contractors (including SLAC) are required to adhere to Executive Order (EO) 13101, "Greening the Government Through Waste Prevention, Recycling and Federal Acquisition," which went into effect in Fiscal Year 2000 (FY00).

SLAC Did a Great Job with Recycled Paper Purchases

Eighty-five percent of the paper purchases made through Corporate Express in FY02 was for recycled content paper. This is great!

Unfortunately, our record for purchasing recycled laser toner and inkjet cartridges for copiers and printers is not as good. Of the thousands of dollars SLAC paid for toner/inkjet cartridges in FY02, SLAC spent only three percent of that on remanufactured/recycled cartridges.

Please order your laser toner and inkjet cartridges with remanufactured/ recycled content whenever possible.

Corporate Express has direct equivalents to many of the inkjet and toner cartridges we use here at SLAC. For example, by using the recycled equivalent of cartridge #C4129X for the HP LaserJet 5000 (Corporate Express order #EXP70020), you can save a lot of money. This is ~$80 cheaper — a significant cost savings in this time of restricted budgets.

Items such as calendars, folders, notepads, post-its, desktop accessories and trash cans have recycled content equivalents that can be purchased for a less expensive price. When purchasing from Corporate Express, look for the "Recycle" icon appearing as a little green tree adjacent to the item.

Thank you for buying recycled or recycled content products, and please continue purchasing recycled products whenever possible.