Overall Rating Gold - expired
Overall Score 71.76
Liaison Mike Versteege
Submission Date Oct. 10, 2014
Executive Letter Download

STARS v1.2

University of Alberta
OP-12: Office Paper Purchasing

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 0.34 / 2.00 Wendy Abel
Director, Procurement & Contract
Supply Management Services
"---" indicates that no data was submitted for this field

Does the institution have an institution-wide stated preference to purchase recycled content office paper?:
No

The URL where the recycled paper policy, directive, or guidelines are posted:
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A brief description of steps the institution has taken to ensure that the purchasing policy, directives, or guidelines are followed :
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Does the institution wish to pursue points for Part 2 of this credit (expenditures on recycled paper)?:
Yes

Expenditures on 10-29 percent recycled-content office paper :
0 US/Canadian $

Expenditures on 30-49 percent recycled-content office paper :
22,532.09 US/Canadian $

Expenditures on 50-69 percent recycled-content office paper :
2,234.05 US/Canadian $

Expenditures on 70-89 percent recycled-content office paper (required if claiming points for Part 2):
0 US/Canadian $

Expenditures on 90-100 percent recycled-content office paper :
69,007.02 US/Canadian $

Total expenditures on office paper :
353,519.42 US/Canadian $

Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
UAlberta has a preferred supplier for print jobs (McCallum Print) that is different from the preferred supplier for office paper (Grande & Toy), which is reported above. McCallum Print uses recycled content paper in 45% of their print jobs and 97% of print jobs use third party certified sourced paper.

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