Rejoose hooks up with EPEAT to give channel a concrete sustainability stamp

Partnership will see international ecolabel arm of the Global Electronics Council offer its product certification data through Rejoose

As demand for low carbon technology products continues to increase at a customer level, Rejoose has inked a partnership with EPEAT to help the channel and its customers pick the perfect products and measure their progress.

EPEAT certification and Rejoose’s validated carbon data will now sit side by side through tenders, quotes and year-end reporting, after Rejoose was onboarded across EPEAT’s data sharing API for participating manufacturers.

This will be a gamechanger for the channel, the firms claim. VARs and distributors will now be able to show which products are EPEAT certified in every tender, quote and customer report. The data reaches back as well as forward, meaning partners can measure certified purchasing across previous years, proving tangible progress to customers.

To appear on the EPEAT Registry, every product is independently verified against science-based criteria across its whole lifecycle, such as lower greenhouse gas emissions in manufacturing and the supply chain; energy efficiency in use, longer product life, recyclability at end of life and responsible supply chains. Every certification can be verified at the source via a direct link that opens up the product’s page in the Registry.

Around 3.2 billion registered products sold since 2006 have accounted for 370 million tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions avoided and nearly $39 bn in cost savings.

Thomas Mardahl, CEO and Co-founderof Rejoose said the move means channel partner won’t have to jump through loads of hoops themselves to provide validated ESG-related information to their clients.

“This collaboration will allow resellers to do advisory work without having to be an ESG expert,” he explained. “EPEAT has done all the hard evaluation work and is an accepted standard globally, so by leveraging that information a partner can easily steer a customer to buy a good product and have those important conversations a lot quicker in the buying process.”

He said the partnership also marks the next evolution of Rejoose.

“We have always delivered factual data such as accurate, validated, product-level carbon and energy numbers. Now we are adding more with trusted certification embedded alongside that data so our partners and their customers can do more than just measure their impact. They can act on it and make better decisions. EPEAT is just the first of many layers. By adding intelligence to each of the almost 20 million products we hold, we can actively change behaviour and we will keep building that knowledge back into Rejoose,” he said.

“This is the next evolution of Rejoose. We have always delivered the factual data: accurate, validated, product-level carbon and energy numbers. Now we are adding more, with trusted certification embedded alongside that data, so our partners and their customers can do more than measure their impact. They can act on it and make better decisions. EPEAT is just the first of many layers. By adding intelligence to each of the almost 20 million products we hold, we can actively change behaviour, and we will keep building that knowledge into Rejoose.”

Bob Mitchell, CEO, Global Electronics Council (EPEAT), said: “The goal of EPEAT is to make it easier to identify and purchase electronics designed to reduce sustainability impacts. With Rejoose now carrying our product registrations across the IT channel, from first quote to year-end carbon accounting, that becomes even simpler for buyers. Simultaneously, it expands the sales advantage for the electronics brands who register their products with EPEAT.”