Environmentally+Responsible+Purchasing+Practices

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//**Environmentally Responsible Purchasing Prac tices of Laconia School District **//
The Laconia School District will strive to obtain maximum value for its expenditures and will work towards obtaining the “best value “ by balancing short and long term costs, maintenance, life cycle, and environmental cost in purchasing goods and services

The Laconia School District acknowledges that environmentally responsible purchasing choices will help create and sustain markets for environmentally responsible and recycled content products.

The Laconia School District commits to the goal of making environmentally and fiscally responsible purchasing choices that consider life cycle costs, long-term implications, and relative environmental harm of products.

Purchasing policies will encourage obtaining products that minimize waste products, have high recycled content, use environmental production methods, demonstrate maximum durability or biodegradability, reparability, energy-efficiency, non-toxicity, and recyclability.