Overall Rating Gold - expired
Overall Score 73.28
Liaison Katie Maynard
Submission Date Nov. 8, 2016
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STARS v2.1

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

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 0.64 / 1.00 Jewel Snavely
Campus Sustainability Coordinator, TGIF Grants Manager
Office of Sustainability
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Cleaning Products 

Total expenditures on cleaning products:
269,922.18 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):
81,028.41 US/Canadian $

Janitorial Paper Products 

Total expenditures on janitorial paper products:
344,882.32 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):
310,827.40 US/Canadian $

Percentage of expenditures on cleaning and janitorial products that are third party certified to meet recognized sustainability standards:
63.74

A brief description of the time period from which the figures reported above are drawn (i.e. one-year time period or representative sample):
Reported for Fiscal year 2015/1016

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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
Due to our electronic procurement system (SiQuest), we are not able to track line item details on purchases using vendor blankets, Flexcards, or punch-out items. Our SiQuest system reported only non punch-out commodities. The UCSB Campus integrated green cleaning as a standard many years ago. We were given the GREEN, CLEAN AWARD prestigious Grand Award in 2008 recognizing green cleaning practices as part of a contest sponsored by American School & University (AS&U) magazine, The Green Cleaning Network, and the Healthy Schools Campaign. The award was presented at the annual Green Clean Schools National Summit in Washington, D.C., and the campus was featured in AS&U magazine’s December edition. http://www.ia.ucsb.edu/93106_archived/2008/November17/green.html

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