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Kitchen Appliances for UCSC Employee Break Rooms

Summary: Learn when appliances may be requested to furnish break rooms for faculty and staff.

The university does not typically provide appliances for personal use or office settings. A refrigerator or microwave may be purchased for a designated break room area in a large building only if the area is open to all university employees. When break room purchases are allowable:

• The purchase must be charged to unrestricted funds
• Appliances must be bought using a CruzBuy Purchase Requisition
• Appliances must be UL listed and ENERGY STAR labeled.
  See UC Policy on Sustainable Practices (pdf) March 22, 2007

Excerpt from UC Policy on Sustainable Practices:

VII. Environmentally Preferable Purchasing Practices

Sustainable Economy

1. The University will utilize its purchasing power and academic and research excellence to advance the development of sustainable technologies by pressing markets to continually improve resource productivity.
2. For products and services that do not currently offer environmentally preferable alternatives, the University will work with its existing and potential suppliers to develop options.
3. “Cradle to cradle” is the preferred purchasing standard and is defined as accountable, responsible, and environmentally preferable supply chain management from material extraction, production, marketing, sale, use, disposal, collection, re-use and the web of closed loop cycles and processes.
4. The University will continue to transition all locations toward electronic and paperless processes and utilize web-based catalogs and programs.
5. The University will incorporate the credit requirements set forth by LEED (Leadership in Energy an Environmental Design) into product and service sourcing and procurement.
6. The University evaluates total cost of ownership including purchase price, operating cost, maintenance, collection and disposal, and recycling costs when selecting suppliers.

Energy and Water

1. For product categories that have ENERGY STAR© rated products available, the University will focus its procurement efforts only on products with an ENERGY STAR© rating, consistent with the needs of UC researchers.
2. For all electronic equipment, the supplier will deliver the items to the University with energy efficiency and conservation features enabled.
3. The University will utilize its strategic purchasing program to negotiate better pricing for rated commodities.
4. The University of California shall establish an ongoing partnership with the ENERGY STAR© Program administered by the EPA, and continually press the market for greater energy efficiency for the products and services regularly purchased by the University.
5. For products and services requiring the use of water, the University will give preference to technologies that ensure the efficient use of water resources.

Implementation Procedures for Energy and Water:

• For those goods already in use across the system, available energy conservation features shall be ENERGY STAR© enabled by a designated party (e.g. IT, department MSO).

Note: Beverages, snacks, consumables, and related supplies are personal items and are the responsibility of the employees in the break room area.

Last revised: November 05, 2008 (am)