Overall Rating Gold - expired
Overall Score 70.12
Liaison Ciannat Howett
Submission Date July 25, 2017
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STARS v2.1

Emory University
OP-14: Office Paper Purchasing

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 0.79 / 1.00 Kelly Weisinger
Director
Office of Sustainability Initiatives
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Total expenditures on office paper :
401,946 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 28,124 US/Canadian $
50-69 percent 346 US/Canadian $
70-89 percent (or FSC Mix label) 0 US/Canadian $
90-100 percent (or FSC Recycled label) 307,947 US/Canadian $

Percentage of expenditures on office paper that is 90-100 percent post-consumer recycled and/or agricultural residue content and/or FSC Recycled label:
76.61

A brief description of the time period from which the figures reported above are drawn (i.e. one-year time period or representative sample):

Emory also encourages sustainable paper use in its publications (magazines, annual reports, etc.), of which only 13% does not contain post-consumer recycled content.

All stationary Emory purchases contains 100% post-consumer recycled content.

The paper purchasing figures are reported from FY2015-2016.


The website URL where information about the programs or initiatives is available:
Additional documentation to support the submission:
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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:

Data reported for 2015-2016 fiscal year.


Data reported for 2015-2016 fiscal year.

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