Overall Rating Silver - expired
Overall Score 59.94
Liaison Samuel Crowl
Submission Date Aug. 11, 2021

STARS v2.2

Ohio University
OP-14: Office Paper Purchasing

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 0.14 / 1.00 Sydney Hutchinson
Reporting Assistant
Office of Sustainability
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Total annual expenditures on office paper:
255,824.20 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 96,187.33 US/Canadian $
30-49 percent 16,700.18 US/Canadian $
50-69 percent 8,841.19 US/Canadian $
70-89 percent (or FSC Mix label) 23.25 US/Canadian $
90-100 percent (or FSC Recycled/100% label) 4,408.43 US/Canadian $

A brief description of the time period from which the figures reported above are drawn:
Data is from fiscal year 2019.

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Website URL where information about the institution’s paper purchasing is available:
Additional documentation to support the submission:
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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
FY19 data provided from Printing Services contracts and for all general paper purchases through our preferred paper vendor, Office Max. Other paper purchases through Staples, Veritiv, and Millcraft. Data provided from vendors by Diana McGrew, Director of Purchasing, Procurement Services (various dates).

Total Annual Expenditures on Office Paper is lower than 2018 numbers, but all paper purchasing data seems to be accounted for from our four vendors.

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