Overall Rating Gold - expired
Overall Score 69.28
Liaison Margaret Bounds
Submission Date June 18, 2021

STARS v2.2

Connecticut College
OP-14: Office Paper Purchasing

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 0.40 / 1.00 Margaret Bounds
Director of Sustainability
Office of Sustainability
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Total annual expenditures on office paper:
16,167.40 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 16,167.40 US/Canadian $
50-69 percent 0 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:
Fiscal Year 2020

Optional Fields 

Website URL where information about the institution’s paper purchasing is available:
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Additional documentation to support the submission:
Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
Data was provided by the Director of Procurement Services. Connecticut College implemented a hard swap on all paper purchases for 30% recycled content on July 1, 2020 to prevent employees from purchasing non recycled content paper. Attached is a screenshot of how the online purchasing system displays this automatic swap to recycled content paper.

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