The Criteria
| EPEAT's environmental criteria are contained in a public standard, IEEE 1680. To purchase a copy of IEEE 1680 visit http://shop.ieee.org/ieeestore/. Simply search for 1680. |
| EPEAT evaluates electronic products according to three tiers of environmental performance - Bronze, Silver and Gold. There are 51 total environmental criteria in IEEE 1680: 23 required criteria and 28 optional criteria. The required and optional criteria are identified in the table, below. To qualify for registration as an EPEAT product, the product must conform to all the required criteria. Manufacturers may pick and choose among the optional criteria to boost their EPEAT "rating" to achieve a higher level as follows. |
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Meets all 23 required criteria |
Meets all 23 required criteria plus at least 50% of the optional criteria |
Meets
all 23 required criteria plus at least 75% of the optional
criteria |
Most
criteria refer to environmental performance characteristics of the
specific product, and the manufacturer declares to those product criteria
for each product of their choice. Some criteria refer to general corporate
programs, such as a Corporate Environmental Policy, and the manufacturer
declares to those criteria in a report that is provided to GEC annually.
The IEEE 1680 Standard contains the full text of each criterion, to what
types of product the criterion applies, what information a manufacturer
must provide to GEC on request to demonstrate conformance with the
criterion, and often references and details. To see these important
details the Standard must be purchased from IEEE.
The following table contains only the title of each of the 51 criteria
for easy reference. For a more detailed summary of the standard, please click here.
| It is necessary to own a copy of the IEEE 1680 standard in order to declare a product. Note that the standard contains essential information that is not available on this web site. Purchase a copy of the standard here. |