Overall Rating Bronze
Overall Score 38.36
Liaison Marga Martinez
Submission Date Oct. 10, 2024

STARS v2.2

Oakton College
OP-13: Cleaning and Janitorial Purchasing

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 0.83 / 1.00 Charmaine John
Sustainability Specialist
Facilities
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Cleaning products 

Total annual expenditures on cleaning products:
25,790 US/Canadian $

Annual expenditures on certified green cleaning products:
16,957 US/Canadian $

Janitorial paper products 

Total annual expenditures on janitorial paper products:
25,811 US/Canadian $

Annual expenditures on certified green janitorial paper products:
25,811 US/Canadian $

A brief description of the time period on which the figures reported above are based :

2023-2024


Metric used in scoring

Percentage of expenditures on cleaning and janitorial products that are third party certified to meet recognized sustainability standards:
82.88

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:

We use 3M cleaning concentrated chemicals with twist @ fill dispensing system. Out of five 3M cleaning chemicals that we use, two of them are Green Seal Certified.
Gojo Green Certified Foam Hand Cleaner, we spent $11,840.00, purchased from Laport
Laundry detergent U.S. EPA Safer Product Standards , we spent $781.00 , purchased from Grainger
Diversey Neutral Floor Cleaner Green Seal(R) Certified, we spent $ 245.00, purchased from Grainger
3M Neutral Cleaner Concentrate and 3M Peroxide Cleaner Concentrate , both Green Seal Certified, we spent $ 4,091.00 , purchased from Warehouse Direct
We use Paper Roll Hand Towel, Green Seal Certified, brown 100% recycled paper and
Jumbo Bath Tissue, White, 2 play ECOLOGO certified UL and made with 100 % recycled fiber.
Also we use trash can liners, post consumer recycled content 80%.
We purchased them from Interboro and we spent $ 8,260.00


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