IT products
Key environmental impacts
The most significant environmental impact related to IT products (PCs, laptops, monitors, photocopiers, printers, multifunctional devices, scanners) is:
- The consumption of electricity and the resulting CO2 emissions
For all these products many highly energy efficient alternatives exist on the market.
IT product purchases
The Procura+ key criteria for IT product purchases focus on:
- Energy performance: The newly updated Energy Star standards for computers and imaging equipment (covering printers, photocopiers, MFDs, scanners), can currently be met by 25-35% of products on the market. Most product-labelling bodies already (or will soon) unify energy performance requirements around these standards. As such they provide a highly straightforward, ambitious, and also market friendly set of requirements, which can be used as minimum standards
To download the Product sheet for IT products click here [pdf-file]
To download the detailed guidance for IT products click here [pdf-file]