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We have multiple tenants in our building, some of which are nonresponsive to requests for purchasing records. Can we exclude their purchases?

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Lots of products we purchase seem like they could be tracked in two different purchasing credits. For example, toilet tissue seem like an ongoing consumable since it’s replaced frequently at a low cost per unit (MRc1), but it’s also used for our green

The credit language says we need to track paper (printing or copy paper, notebooks, notepads, envelopes), toner cartridges, binders, batteries and desk accessories. Is that everything we have to track for this credit?

We purchased hundreds of ongoing consumables items during our performance period. Do we have to enter each discrete purchase into the LEED Online credit form?

Our organization has a centralized purchasing program that buys products for several buildings, including the one pursuing LEED-EBOM certification. It’s difficult to track which ongoing consumable goods purchases are used in the EBOM building versus the

Purchasing for our organization takes place in the EBOM project building, but not all ongoing consumable goods that are purchased end up being used there. Should we include all of the purchases in MRc1?

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EBOM-2009 MRc1:Sustainable Purchasing—Ongoing Consumables

Line between consumables and 'process' consumables

Susan Walter

HDR

LEEDuser Expert

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March 22, 2013

I'm wondering where to draw the line between consumables (which in my mind are things people use in the course of their business day) and the items used for the business (product raw materials, items used to deliver materials). Hospitals buy a lot of consumable items, many of which are difficult to green. For example, in order to give a patient a shot, the care giver dons latex gloves (consumable), opens a syringe (process?) fills it with medicine (process), swabs the injection site (consumable) gives the shot and puts a bandaid over the injection site (consumable). So they should track gloves, alcohol swabs and band-aids in this credit but not the syringe or the medication? Or should everything after the gloves be considered 'process'?

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Alexa Stone

ecoPreserve: Building Sustainability

LEEDuser Basic Member

101 thumbs up

Wed, 06/19/2013 - 19:36

Hi Susan, I don't have an answer for you on the specific LEED interpretation but I do Encourage you to look at the Healthier Hospitals Initiative that addresses purchasing, reprocessing and greening of the supply chain for future.

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