Overall Rating Gold - expired
Overall Score 65.52
Liaison Andrew D'Amico
Submission Date Feb. 28, 2018
Executive Letter Download

STARS v2.1

Princeton University
OP-13: Cleaning and Janitorial Purchasing

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 0.92 / 1.00 Regan Winston
Director
Building Services
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Cleaning Products 

Total expenditures on cleaning products:
188,670 US/Canadian $

Expenditures on cleaning products that are Green Seal or UL ECOLOGO certified and/or Safer Choice labeled (or local equivalents for institutions outside the U.S. and Canada):
145,854 US/Canadian $

Janitorial Paper Products 

Total expenditures on janitorial paper products:
365,750 US/Canadian $

Expenditures on janitorial paper products that are FSC, Green Seal, and/or UL ECOLOGO certified (or local equivalents for institutions outside the U.S. and Canada):
365,750 US/Canadian $

Percentage of expenditures on cleaning and janitorial products that are third party certified to meet recognized sustainability standards:
92.28

A brief description of the time period from which the figures reported above are drawn (i.e. one-year time period or representative sample):
One-year (FY17 or July 2016 – June 2017)

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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
The Building Services department will utilize Green Seal-certified cleaners and/or Electrically Activated Water for all daily use cleaning products. Further, the department will expand processes for refinishing floors without the use of conventional floor stripper. All restroom hand soap throughout the University is Green Seal-certified. At this time, the University’s primary disinfectants are not Green Seal certified.

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