| Overall Rating | Silver - expired |
|---|---|
| Overall Score | 46.80 |
| Liaison | Paul Scanlon |
| Submission Date | Feb. 28, 2014 |
| Executive Letter | Download |
Slippery Rock University
OP-14: Office Paper Purchasing
| Status | Score | Responsible Party |
|---|---|---|
|
0.55 / 1.00 |
Mark
Combine director of purchasing purchasing |
Does the institution have an institution-wide stated preference to purchase office paper that has recycled content and/or is certified to meet multi-criteria sustainability standards for paper?:
A copy of the paper purchasing policy, directive or guidelines:
The paper purchasing policy, directive or guidelines:
All paper offered by the bidder, or included in the final product offered by the bidder, and sold to the Commonwealth must contain the minimum percentage of post-consumer content as shown below for the applicable products:
- Reprographic paper: 30%
- Offset paper: 30%
- Tablet paper: 30%
- Forms bond paper: 30%
- Envelope - wove: 30%
- Kraft, white and colored: 10%
- Kraft, unbleached: 10%
- Cotton fiber (high quality stationary): 30%
- Text and cover paper (premium papers for cover stock, etc.): 30%
- Supercalendared (advertising, mail order inserts, catalogs, etc.): 10%
- Machine finished groundwood (magazines, catalogs)" 10%
- Papeteries (Invitations, greeting cards): 30%
“Post-consumer” content is “material or finished product that has served its intended use and has been diverted or recovered from waste destined for disposal, having completed it life as a consumer item. Post-consumer content is part of the broader category of recovered material.”
A brief description of steps the institution has taken to ensure that the purchasing policy, directives, or guidelines are followed :
SRU follows the Commonwealth of PA guidelines that require that copy paper have 30% Recycled Content. Our Bid Specifications reflect the required 30% recycled content requirement and we require paper mill certification of such.
Does the institution wish to pursue Part 2 of this credit (expenditures on office paper)?:
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 | 1,253 US/Canadian $ |
| 30-49 percent | 80,011 US/Canadian $ |
| 50-69 percent | 0 US/Canadian $ |
| 70-89 percent (or FSC Mix label) | 0 US/Canadian $ |
| 90-100 percent (or FSC Recycled label) | 0 US/Canadian $ |
Total expenditures on office paper :
The website URL where information about the paper purchasing policy, directive, or guidelines is available:
Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
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.