Overall Rating Gold
Overall Score 69.35
Liaison Delicia Nahman
Submission Date Sept. 12, 2023

STARS v2.2

Lafayette College
OP-14: Office Paper Purchasing

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 0.32 / 1.00 Melissa Adamson
Climate Action and Circularity Manager
Office of Sustainability
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Total annual expenditures on office paper:
32,235.34 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 25,966.84 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) 37.69 US/Canadian $

A brief description of the time period from which the figures reported above are drawn:
Data is for purchases 7/1/2022 through 6/30/2023.

The data is from a report generated by our preferred supplier of office supplies and copy paper, WB Mason. It should include the vast majority of college purchases, although there may be some leakage.

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:
The data is provided by our preferred supplier of office products and paper, WB Mason. It includes all purchases placed by campus personnel through our customized website.

Based on the data, 81% of Lafayette purchases from WB Mason contain post consumer content of 30-49%

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