GOOD PRACTICE EXAMPLE
| Country: | Finland |  |
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| Product group: | household appliances, lighting, IT, vehicles, green power |
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| Name of the Institution: |
Suomen ympäristökeskus (SYKE) |
Overview
The Finnish Environment Institute (also known as SYKE, after the Institute's Finnish acronym) is both a research institute, and a centre for environmental expertise.
SYKE has developed an environmental management system (EMS) to reduce the negative environmental impacts of its own operations. EMS focuses on travelling, purchases, energy consumption, the use of paper, and waste management. Overall goals for procurement/consumption:
- purchases should be minimised, and the purchases made should always be as environmental friendly as possible
- the negative environmental impacts of paper consumption should be reduced
- the negative environmental impacts of SYKEs property and equipment should also be reduced
Specifications of the Institution
| Address: | P.O.Box 140, FIN-00251 Helsinki Finland |
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| Number of inhabitants: | |
| Contact person: | Minna Kokkarinen |
| Position: | Property Manager |
| Telephone: | + 385 400476942 |
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| E-Mail: | |
| Website: | http://www.ymparisto.fi |
| Number of employees (management): | 600 (SYKE) |
Organisation of the procurement
Procurement bases on public procurement laws. SYKE has an documented manual for procurement and environment criteria for following product groups: IT, vehicles, papers, detergents, office equipment and electric machines.
Most of the SYKE's procurement is concentrated on Administrative department or IT-department.
Measures
houshold appliances:
SYKE has used following criteria in the invitations for tenders:
- Environmental labels or the criteria of the label (SYKE cannot demand the label)
- Energy consumptions of the electronic machines
SYKE does not use disposable products
IT:
SYKE has used following criteria in the invitations for tenders:
- Amounts of package
- recycle system for the products
- Environmental labels or the criteria of the label (SYKE cannot demand the label)
- Energy consumptions of the electronic machines
SYKE does not use disposable products.
lighting:
SYKE has used following criteria in the invitations for tenders:
- Environmental labels or the criteria of the label (SYKE cannot demand the label) (office equipment)
- Energy consumptions of the electronic machines
SYKE does not use disposable products.
vehicles:
SYKE has used following criteria in the invitations for tenders:
- The emissions from the cars
SYKE has held lessons of economic and safe driving for those who are driving cars daily.
green power:
SYKE buys only green energy (for the premises in Mechelininkatu 34a)
