Transportation: Supply Chain Options to Reduce the Impacts from Freight

Supply Chain Options to Reduce the Impacts from Freight

• Purchasing Guidance - Specs/RFP Questions to ask Freight Carriers to Reduce Fuel Emissions

Hospital/GPO: Consider the resource above when purchasing distribution services and other contracts where products or services are delivered to hospitals. EPA's SmartWay Program provides an opportunity for hospitals, who ship and receive items delivered by truck or rail transport to join as a Partner to minimize the impact from fuel use by freight.  Two action items to consider:

1. Hospitals can ask/require suppliers to be an EPA SmartWay Shipper or Carrier Partner to reduce their impacts from freight transportation. 

2. Hospitals can ask their Group Purchasing Organization (GPO) to select suppliers that are an EPA SmartWay Shipper or Carrier Partner.

Suppliers: Suppliers can join EPA's SmartWay Program as a Shipper or Carrier Partner (carrier owns their trucks or has a private fleet) to reduce their transportation-related emissions that affect climate change, reduce environmental risk for comapnies and increase gloabl energy security.

Supply Chain Options to Reduce Impacts from Autos

• Purchasing Fuel Efficient Vehicles, U.S. Department of Energy
• Sample Spectication - Vehicle Color, EPP Criteria for Autos, State of California
• Request autos and trucks with lead-free wheel weights