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What is EPP? Environmentally preferred purchasing supports the use of materials for homes and businesses that use less energy and emit fewer harmful substances during manufacture, so they have smaller impacts on the environment and human health.

The EPA has several tools and resources to help individuals and businesses make smart EPP choices, including a list of helpful business and organizations in our area! In addition, SUNY Sullivan offers an EPP training course for folks in the area interested in bringing EPP into their businesses and organizations.

Businesses - “go green” by choosing these environmentally preferred products!  Just a few areas EPP is an option for:

- building and construction materials

- landscaping materials or design

- electronics

- food service supplies

- shipping and distribution supplies

Go Ahead Buy The Good Stuff! Plastic is forever! 

A walk along Jones Beach can convince you of that.  Plastic bottles tossed  into the recycling bin can be recycled only once.  Once whatever we make out of those bottles is worn out that plastic becomes trash and can no longer be recycled. Glass on the other hand is recyclable over and over again.  There is no limit to the number of times you can melt down glass or metal and create something new and useful.  

Nowadays big name soda comes only in plastic bottles.  There are however some terrific haute-cuisine sodas available in glass bottles.  These sodas cost more and come in old fashioned single serving glass containers.  Imagine being satisfied by an ice cold 12 ounce root beer in a glass bottle.  Quench your thirst, feel luxurious, impress your guests, drink 1/3 fewer calories than the 18 ounce super size, and save the planet! Enjoy!