Overall Rating Gold - expired
Overall Score 74.81
Liaison Kelli O'Day
Submission Date March 6, 2020

STARS v2.2

University of California, Davis
OP-13: Cleaning and Janitorial Purchasing

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 0.83 / 1.00 Camille Kirk
Director of Sustainability and Campus Sustainability Planner
Office of Sustainability
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Cleaning products 

Total annual expenditures on cleaning products:
987,528 US/Canadian $

Annual expenditures on certified green cleaning products:
731,409 US/Canadian $

Janitorial paper products 

Total annual expenditures on janitorial paper products:
825,055 US/Canadian $

Annual expenditures on certified green janitorial paper products:
774,308 US/Canadian $

A brief description of the time period on which the figures reported above are based :
The data reporting is based on fiscal year 2018/ 2019 (July 1, 2018 – June 30, 2019).

Metric used in scoring

Percentage of expenditures on cleaning and janitorial products that are third party certified to meet recognized sustainability standards:
83.07

Optional Fields 

Website URL where information about the institution’s cleaning and janitorial purchasing is available:
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Additional documentation to support the submission:
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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
Data was gathered by the UCOP Sustainable Procurement team in summer of 2019.

University of California has a system-wide agreement with the company Waxie for supplying cleaning and janitorial products. The vendor is proactive in promoting the purchase of green products and in providing a clear and thorough reporting of spend. This has resulted in UC Davis achieving a higher percentage of spend on green cleaning products, and excelling in category-specific green spend criteria on cleaning supplies per the UC Sustainable Procurement Guidelines (https://www.ucop.edu/procurement-services/_files/sustainableprocurementguidelines.pdf).

Vindyani Jayasinghe, a visiting Humphrey Fellow with the Office of Sustainability, assisted in compiling this credit response.

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