{"id":10159,"date":"2015-02-25T09:10:29","date_gmt":"2015-02-25T14:10:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=10159"},"modified":"2015-02-25T09:10:29","modified_gmt":"2015-02-25T14:10:29","slug":"usps-updates-purchasing-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2015\/02\/25\/usps-updates-purchasing-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"USPS updates purchasing policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Chemical solutions<\/h1>\n<h2>USPS updates purchasing policy<\/h2>\n<p><time class=\"pubdate\" datetime=\"2015-02-24T18:11:00.000Z\">USPS\u00a02\/24\/15<\/time><\/p>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/liteblue.usps.gov\/news\/link\/2015\/02feb\/images\/news25s3.jpg\" alt=\"Sustainability symbol\" width=\"220\" \/><\/div>\n<h6>Look for the green leaf icon, which designates<br \/>\nenvironmentally preferred products in eBuy2<br \/>\ncatalogs.<\/h6>\n<p>A new policy requires Postal Service employees to avoid using products that contain 13 targeted chemicals that can produce hazardous waste.<\/p>\n<p>Sustainability and Supply Management issued the policy, which prohibits cleaners, paints, solvents, pesticides, adhesives and other products that contain the chemicals.<\/p>\n<p>The chemicals are listed in the<em><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/about.usps.com\/postal-bulletin\/2015\/pb22408\/pb22408.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Postal Bulletin\u2019s Feb. 5 edition<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEliminating these chemicals at USPS facilities will help protect employees, the workplace and the environment,\u201d said Chief Sustainability Officer Tom Day.<\/p>\n<p>Alternate products that don\u2019t contain the targeted chemicals are available. Employees should use corporate eBuy2 catalogs to purchase the environmentally preferred products, which are identified by a green leaf icon.<\/p>\n<p>Sustainability may, upon request, issue exceptions if no viable alternative product is available.<\/p>\n<p>For information on finding alternative products without targeted chemicals, visit the<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/blue.usps.gov\/sustainability\/green_purchasing.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Green Purchasing<\/em><\/a>\u00a0site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chemical solutions USPS updates purchasing policy USPS\u00a02\/24\/15 Look for the green leaf icon, which designates environmentally preferred products in eBuy2 catalogs. A new policy requires Postal Service employees to avoid using products that contain 13 targeted chemicals that can produce hazardous waste. Sustainability and Supply Management issued the policy, which prohibits cleaners, paints, solvents, pesticides, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10160,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-usps-news","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10159"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10161,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10159\/revisions\/10161"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}