Overall Rating Gold
Overall Score 76.41
Liaison Krista Bailey
Submission Date Dec. 12, 2023

STARS v2.2

Pennsylvania State University
OP-13: Cleaning and Janitorial Purchasing

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 0.35 / 1.00 Krista Bailey
Sustainable Campus Strategist
Sustainability Institute
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Cleaning products 

Total annual expenditures on cleaning products:
2,348,799.87 US/Canadian $

Annual expenditures on certified green cleaning products:
291,378.78 US/Canadian $

Janitorial paper products 

Total annual expenditures on janitorial paper products:
955,130.31 US/Canadian $

Annual expenditures on certified green janitorial paper products:
862,331.32 US/Canadian $

A brief description of the time period on which the figures reported above are based :
Data is from fiscal year 2022 (July 1, 2021 - June 30, 2022).

Metric used in scoring

Percentage of expenditures on cleaning and janitorial products that are third party certified to meet recognized sustainability standards:
34.92

Optional Fields 

Website URL where information about the institution’s cleaning and janitorial purchasing is available:
https://sustainability.psu.edu/campus-efforts/by-the-numbers/view-our-progress/procurement-dashboard/

Additional documentation to support the submission:
Janitorial_Spend_FY22.xlsx

Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
See the Blue Cleaning Manual included with for descriptions of products and ratings.
https://acrobat.adobe.com/link/track?uri=urn:aaid:scds:US:9336a518-0a82-3c4b-b529-c7670a70fa1a

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