Green Procurement Compilation

Bathroom Sink Faucets & Accessories (Residential)

A device by which a flow of liquid or gas from a pipe or container can be controlled.

Landscape Irrigation Services

Irrigation is the application of controlled amounts of water to plants at needed intervals. Landscape irrigation can be automated through the use of irrigation system controllers, which use climatolog...

Showerheads

A fixture for directing the spray of water in a bathroom shower.

Toilets

A fixed receptacle into which a person may urinate or defecate, typically consisting of a large bowl connected to a system for flushing away the waste into a sewer or septic tank.

Urinals

A bowl or other receptacle, typically attached to a wall in a public restroom, into which men may urinate.

Water Coolers

A freestanding device that consumes energy and dispenses water from removable 4- to 5-gallon plastic bottles commonly positioned on top of the unit.

Weather or Sensor-Based Irrigation Control Technologies

Irrigation system controllers use local weather and landscape conditions to tailor watering schedules to actual conditions on the site, instead of irrigating using a controller with a clock and a pres...

Pre-Rinse Spray Valves

Pre-rinse spray valves—often used in commercial and institutional kitchens—are designed to remove food waste from dishes prior to dishwashing.

Microbial Cleaning Products

Cleaning agents that use microscopic organisms to treat or eliminate waste materials within drains, plumbing fixtures, sewage systems, or wastewater treatment systems. These products typically include...

Clothes Washers

A consumer product designed to clean clothes, utilizing a water solution of soap and/or detergent and mechanical agitation or other movement.

Combination Units/Multi-Function Devices

A Multifunction Device (MFD) is a physically integrated device or a combination of functionally integrated components that produces hard copy duplicates from graphical hard copy originals as well as p...

Commercial Dishwashers

The commercial dishwasher is able to clean and sanitize a high quantity of kitchen wares in a very short time by utilizing hot water, soap, rinse chemicals, and significant amounts of energy.

Commercial Ice Makers

A factory-made assembly (not necessarily shipped in one package) consisting of a condensing unit and ice-making section operating as an integrated unit, with means for making and harvesting ice. It is...

Compost

Decayed organic material used as a plant fertilizer.

Copiers

A product whose sole function is to produce hard copy duplicates from hard copy originals. This definition is intended to cover products that are marketed as copiers, and upgradeable digital copiers (...

Dishwashers

A machine designed to clean and sanitize plates, glasses, cups, bowls, utensils, and trays by applying sprays of detergent solution (with or without blasting media granules) and a sanitizing final rin...

Semi-Durable Films

Fax Machines

A product whose primary functions are (1) to scan hard copy originals for electronic transmission to remote units, and (2) to receive electronic transmissions for conversion to hard copy output.

Commercial Gas Water Heaters

A product that utilizes gas or electricity to heat potable water for use outside the heater upon demand, at a thermostatically controlled temperature.

Heat Pumps, Geothermal or Ground-Source

A geothermal heat pump uses the thermal energy of the ground or groundwater to provide residential space conditioning and/or domestic water heating.

Hand Soaps and Cleaners

Products formulated for personal care use in removing a variety of different soils, greases, and similar substances from human hands with or without the use of water.

Hand Sanitizers

Products formulated for personal care use in removing bacteria from human hands with or without the use of water.

Industrial Cleaners

Products used to remove contaminants, such as adhesives, inks, paint, dirt, soil, and grease, from parts, products, tools, machinery, equipment, vessels, floors, walls, and other production-related wo...

Light Commercial Heating and Cooling

A unit of commercial package airconditioning and heating equipment that is configured as a split system air conditioner incorporating a single refrigerant circuit, with one or more outdoor units, at l...

Membrane Concrete Sealers

General Purpose Soluble, Semi-Synthetic, and Synthetics Oils

High Performance Soluble, Semi-Synthetic, and Synthetics Oils

Straight Oils

Mulch

Products designed to provide a protective covering placed over the soil, primarily to keep down weeds and to improve the appearance of landscaping. Compost is the aerobically decomposed remnants of or...

Non-Durable

Penetrating Liquids

Televisions

A product designed to produce dynamic video, contains an internal TV tuner encased within the product housing, and that is capable of receiving dynamic visual content from wired or wireless sources.

Turbine Drip Oils

Products that are lubricants for use in drip lubrication systems for water well line shaft bearings, water turbine bearings for irrigation pumps, and other turbine bearing applications.

Water Tank Coatings

Coatings formulated for use in potable water storage systems.

Yard Trimmings, Food Waste, Manure, Biosolids, or Other Recovered Organic Materials

De-Icers, General Purpose

Chemical products (e.g., salt, fluids) that are designed to aid in the removal of snow and/or ice, and/or in the prevention of the buildup of snow and/or ice, in general use applications by lowering t...

Dehumidifiers

A product, other than a portable air conditioner, room air conditioner, or packaged terminal air conditioner, that is a self-contained, electrically operated, and mechanically encased assembly consis...

Films

Products that are used in packaging, wrappings, linings, and other similar applications. These include films that are intended for single use for short-term storage or protection before being discarde...

Wood and Concrete Sealers

Products that are penetrating liquids formulated to protect wood and/or concrete, including masonry and fiber cement siding, from damage caused by insects, moisture, and decaying fungi and to make sur...

Metalworking Fluids

Fluids that are designed to provide cooling, lubrication, corrosion prevention, and reduced wear on the contact parts of machinery used for metalworking operations such as cutting, drilling, grinding,...

Air-Cooled

Water-Cooled

Boilers

A self contained fuel burning appliance of less than 300,000 Btu per hour energy input, for supplying low pressure steam or hot water for space heating applications. A heating unit that meets this def...

Compost Activators and Accelerators

Products in liquid or powder form designed to be applied to compost piles to aid in speeding up the composting process and to ensure successful compost that is ready for consumer use.

Erosion Control Materials

Woven or non-woven fiber materials manufactured for use on construction, demolition, or other sites to prevent wind or water erosion of loose earth surfaces, which may be combined with seed and/or fer...

Interior Paints and Coatings -- Water-borne Alkyd

Residential Water Heaters

A product that utilizes gas, electricity, or solar thermal energy to heat potable water for use outside the heater upon demand.

Whole-Home Gas Tankless

Solar

High Efficiency Electric Storage (Heat Pump)

High-Efficiency Gas Storage

Biobased Compost Materials

Electric Storage Water Heaters

Specialty Precision Cleaners and Solvents

Cleaners and solvents used in specialty applications. These materials may be used without a solvent, diluted with water, or in hand wiping applications.

Wastewater Systems Coatings

Coatings that protect wastewater containment tanks, liners, roofing, flooring, joint caulking, manholes and related structures from corrosion. Protective coatings may cover the entire system or be use...

Water Clarifying Agents

Products designed to clarify and improve the quality of water by reducing contaminants such as excess nitrites, nitrates, phosphates, ammonia, and built-up sludge from decaying waste and other organic...

Water Turbine Bearing Oils

Lubricants that are specifically formulated for use in the bearings found in water turbines for electric power generation. Previously designated turbine drip oils are used to lubricate bearings of sha...

Water-Cooled Chillers

Clothes Dryers

A machine designed to dry fabrics in a tumble-type drum with forced air circulation

Cooler, Indirect Evaporative

Multi-staged indirect evaporative coolers (IEC) use a unique air-processing technology that delivers space conditioning using only a fraction of the energy consumed by mechanical air conditioners

Biomass Boiler, Wood-Pellet-Fired

Condensing

Commercial

Residential

Commercial Clothes Washers

A soft-mounted front-loading or soft-mounted top-loading clothes washer that is designed for use in applications in which the occupants of more than one household will be using the clothes washer, suc...

Weather Station for Irrigation Control

Weather-based irrigation controls use local weather data to measure and respond to irrigation water needs in real time.

Photovoltaic-Thermal (PV-T) Hybrid Solar Systems

Photovoltaic-thermal (PV-T) hybrid solar systems offer increased electricity production by cooling the PV panel, and using the removed thermal energy to heat water - all in the same footprint as a sta...

Catalyst-based Non-chemical Water Treatment

Catalyst-based non-chemical water treatment technology is inserted directly into the pipe that carries the water to be treated. The catalyst insert causes the calcium and carbon in the water to form a...

Honeycomb Solar Thermal Collector

The Honeycomb Solar Thermal Collector (HSTC) uses a honeycomb insulating layer to minimize heat loss by suppressing convection.

Control Optimization System for Chiller Plants

The control optimization system controls the operation of both water-cooled centrifugal and screw-type chilled water plants. It optimizes performance holistically, by monitoring and controlling five i...