Overall Rating Gold
Overall Score 75.88
Liaison Deborah Steinberg
Submission Date Dec. 17, 2024

STARS v2.2

Carnegie Mellon University
OP-14: Office Paper Purchasing

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 0.18 / 1.00 Tim Butala
Executive Director, Procurement Services
Procurement Services
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Total annual expenditures on office paper:
309,000 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 117,420 US/Canadian $
30-49 percent 62,241 US/Canadian $
50-69 percent 2,829 US/Canadian $
70-89 percent (or FSC Mix label) 0 US/Canadian $
90-100 percent (or FSC Recycled/100% label) 4,715 US/Canadian $

A brief description of the time period from which the figures reported above are drawn:

Above data captures CMU FY24 Spend of $309,000

From the total spend, $187,205 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:
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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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