Overall Rating Silver - expired
Overall Score 52.66
Liaison Logan Plaisted
Submission Date Aug. 1, 2011
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STARS v1.0

Illinois Institute of Technology
OP-11: Cleaning Products Purchasing

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 1.29 / 2.00 John Sebby
Operations Manager
Facilities
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Does the institution have an institution-wide stated preference to purchase Green Seal (tm) or EcoLogo (tm) certified cleaning products?:
Yes

The website URL where the green cleaning product purchasing policy, directive, or guidelines are posted:
A brief description of steps the institution has taken to ensure that the purchasing policy, directives, or guidelines are followed:

All of the university’s purchasing is done through ABM, our designated purchasing contractor. Our contract has a directive stating that contractors must submit a list of chemicals to IIT for approval before purchase, primarily from North American and HP Products. IIT strives to purchase a high percentage of our products as Green Seal or equivalently certified products while still meeting the campus needs.


Does the institution wish to pursue points for Part 2 of this credit (expenditures on cleaning products)?:
Yes

Expenditures on Green Seal and/or EcoLogo certified cleaning products :
24,901.94 US/Canadian $

Total expenditures on cleaning products :
47,145.90 US/Canadian $

A copy of the sections of the cleaning contract(s) that reference certified green products:
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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:

The website URL above is for the general IIT website. We do not at this time have a website outlining our directive, as it is part of an private institution contract. However, the university is working to make many of our policies publicly available on various parts of our site, and we hope to have it available soon.


The website URL above is for the general IIT website. We do not at this time have a website outlining our directive, as it is part of an private institution contract. However, the university is working to make many of our policies publicly available on various parts of our site, and we hope to have it available soon.

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