Overall Rating Platinum - expired
Overall Score 88.31
Liaison James Gordon
Submission Date May 31, 2018
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STARS v2.1

Thompson Rivers University
OP-13: Cleaning and Janitorial Purchasing

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 1.00 / 1.00 James Gordon
Environmental Programs and Research Coordinator
TRU Office of Environment and Sustainability
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Cleaning Products 

Total expenditures on cleaning products:
39,435.45 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):
39,435.45 US/Canadian $

Janitorial Paper Products 

Total expenditures on janitorial paper products:
98,934.55 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):
98,934.55 US/Canadian $

Percentage of expenditures on cleaning and janitorial products that are third party certified to meet recognized sustainability standards:
100

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 (2017)

Optional Fields 

The website URL where information about the programs or initiatives is available:
Additional documentation to support the submission:
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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
Figures from Mark Gunnlaugson, Manager of Wesclean Equipment & Cleaning Supplies Ltd, Kamloops, BC.. This company is the supplier for all TRU cleaning and janitorial paper products. Look on site under 'TRU Sustainability Purchasing Guidelines for Chemically Intensive Products and Services': https://www.tru.ca/sustain/initiatives/Sustainable_Procurement.html

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