Overall Rating Gold - expired
Overall Score 72.66
Liaison Megan Litke
Submission Date March 5, 2021

STARS v2.2

American University
OP-14: Office Paper Purchasing

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 0.48 / 1.00 Courtney Stoner
Sustainability Analyst
Office of Sustainability
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Total annual expenditures on office paper:
53,282.63 US/Canadian $

Expenditures on office paper with the following levels of post-consumer recycled, agricultural residue, and/or FSC certified content::
Expenditure Per Level
10-29 percent 0 US/Canadian $
30-49 percent 28,975.95 US/Canadian $
50-69 percent 23,323.20 US/Canadian $
70-89 percent (or FSC Mix label) 0 US/Canadian $
90-100 percent (or FSC Recycled/100% label) 0 US/Canadian $

A brief description of the time period from which the figures reported above are drawn:
The reported paper purchased is from July 1, 2018 - June 30, 2019

Optional Fields 

Website URL where information about the institution’s paper purchasing is available:
Additional documentation to support the submission:
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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
Purchasing data spans July 1, 2018 - June 30, 2019

98.7% of purchases are FSC Certified, but with unknown specification of (Mix/Recycled/100%).

*Using FY19 data due to COVID-19 impacts

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