Overall Rating Silver - expired
Overall Score 46.07
Liaison Michelle McCollum
Submission Date April 30, 2020

STARS v2.2

George Brown College
OP-13: Cleaning and Janitorial Purchasing

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 0.18 / 1.00 Asim Ayub
Manager Environmental Services
Facilties Management
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Cleaning products 

Total annual expenditures on cleaning products:
154,000 US/Canadian $

Annual expenditures on certified green cleaning products:
4,000 US/Canadian $

Janitorial paper products 

Total annual expenditures on janitorial paper products:
30,000 US/Canadian $

Annual expenditures on certified green janitorial paper products:
30,000 US/Canadian $

A brief description of the time period on which the figures reported above are based :
April 1, 2019 - March 31, 2020

Metric used in scoring

Percentage of expenditures on cleaning and janitorial products that are third party certified to meet recognized sustainability standards:
18.48

Optional Fields 

Website URL where information about the institution’s cleaning and janitorial 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:
This data includes Eco Lab Products food services cleaning products ($150,000) purchased by the College for use in the kitchens/labs in our Culinary Arts Building. AT the time of this submission they were not able to provide info re: % of certified green cleaning products.

Since the College moved to hand dryers in all washrooms the only paper product being purchased is toilet paper:
Swish® Clean & Green® 2-Ply Toilet Tissue, 500 sheets/roll Universal
100% recycled and exceeds EPA guidelines for post-consumer wastepaper content

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