Memphis encourages city departments to prefer recycled-content paper, energy-efficient equipment, and lower-emission fleet vehicles through procurement guidelines tied to the 2018 Climate Action Plan.
City of Memphis purchasing guidelines, paired with the 2018 Climate Action Plan, encourage departments to weigh life-cycle environmental cost when buying paper, IT equipment, lighting, HVAC, and fleet vehicles. The Office of Sustainability tracks fleet electrification and building energy upgrades. These are administrative preferences rather than hard rules — Tennessee state procurement law constrains how strict local purchasing mandates can be — and apply to city operations rather than to private businesses.
Applies to city departments only. No private fines. Non-compliance is handled internally as an administrative matter, not a code citation.
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