Overall Rating Gold
Overall Score 75.90
Liaison Deborah Steinberg
Submission Date Dec. 6, 2021

STARS v2.2

Carnegie Mellon University
OP-14: Office Paper Purchasing

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 0.22 / 1.00 Tim Butala
Executive Director, Procurement Services
Procurement Services
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Total annual expenditures on office paper:
116,427 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 56,482 US/Canadian $
30-49 percent 29,908 US/Canadian $
50-69 percent 1,358 US/Canadian $
70-89 percent (or FSC Mix label) 0 US/Canadian $
90-100 percent (or FSC Recycled/100% label) 1,707 US/Canadian $

A brief description of the time period from which the figures reported above are drawn:
Above data captures CMU FY20 Spend of $116,427.
From the total spend, $89,455 is sourced from our Preferred Supplier whereas the levels are based on this expenditure.

https://www.cmu.edu/finance/procurementservices/supplier-directory/OfficeDepot.html

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:
The Recycling Policy includes a section to purchase recycled content materials.
https://www.cmu.edu/policies/index.html

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