Overall Rating Silver - expired
Overall Score 49.24
Liaison Lisa Lonie
Submission Date June 11, 2014
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STARS v2.0

Haverford College
OP-14: Office Paper Purchasing

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 0.81 / 1.00
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Does the institution have an institution-wide stated preference to purchase office paper that has recycled content and/or is certified to meet multi-criteria sustainability standards for paper?:
Yes

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A copy of the paper purchasing policy, directive or guidelines:
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The paper purchasing policy, directive or guidelines:
Yes, we use 30% recycled envirocopy paper. It is made with 30% post consumer recycled content and non-recycled content from FSC (Forest Stewardship Council) certified forests. We are a decentralized purchasing office, therefore, we do not give specific directives in terms of purchasing. We highly recommend to all purchasing the recycled paper and the majority of the community across campus does purchase it.

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A brief description of steps the institution has taken to ensure that the purchasing policy, directives, or guidelines are followed :
The purchasing office approves all the office supplies orders made from Office Depot. Internally the purchasing office's policy is to contact the requester to change their purchase to recycled paper.

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Does the institution wish to pursue Part 2 of this credit (expenditures on office paper)?:
Yes

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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 0 US/Canadian $
50-69 percent 0 US/Canadian $
70-89 percent (or FSC Mix label) 0 US/Canadian $
90-100 percent (or FSC Recycled label) 28,378 US/Canadian $

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Total expenditures on office paper :
37,809 US/Canadian $

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The website URL where information about the paper purchasing policy, directive, or guidelines is available:
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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
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