Choosing to buy green or EPP products can provide a variety of benefits from financial, to health and to the environment. Such benefits include improving the safety and health of workers and the public, reducing pollution, conservation of natural resources and energy, developing new, more environmentally friendly products, encouraging new markets for recycled materials and create jobs, improving awareness of environmental stewardship, and providing potential cost savings.

Additional Resources
http://pinellas.ifas.ufl.edu/sustainability/green_purchasing.shtml