Overall Rating Silver - expired
Overall Score 51.63
Liaison Dwayne Doornbosch
Submission Date June 24, 2021

STARS v2.2

Langara College
OP-13: Cleaning and Janitorial Purchasing

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 0.99 / 1.00
"---" indicates that no data was submitted for this field

Cleaning products 

Total annual expenditures on cleaning products:
7,137.96 US/Canadian $

Annual expenditures on certified green cleaning products:
6,571.21 US/Canadian $

Janitorial paper products 

Total annual expenditures on janitorial paper products:
34,965 US/Canadian $

Annual expenditures on certified green janitorial paper products:
34,965 US/Canadian $

A brief description of the time period on which the figures reported above are based :
Spend figures provided are for fiscal year 2019 (April 1, 2019 to March 31, 2020). This period was selected as it represented the most recent year with typical campus users (and therefore associated cleaning and janitorial paper product usage), as opposed to 2020 which had significantly lower campus users due to COVID-19.

Metric used in scoring

Percentage of expenditures on cleaning and janitorial products that are third party certified to meet recognized sustainability standards:
98.65

Optional Fields 

Website URL where information about the institution’s cleaning and janitorial purchasing is available:
---

Additional documentation to support the submission:
Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
Spend figures were provided by Langara's Manager of Purchasing. All janitorial paper purchased by the College is ECOLOGO and FSC certified. 92% of janitorial chemicals purchased are ECOLOGO certified.

The information presented here is self-reported. While AASHE staff review portions of all STARS reports and institutions are welcome to seek additional forms of review, the data in STARS reports are not verified by AASHE. If you believe any of this information is erroneous or inconsistent with credit criteria, please review the process for inquiring about the information reported by an institution or simply email your inquiry to stars@aashe.org.