Overall Rating Gold - expired
Overall Score 70.93
Liaison Ezra Small
Submission Date Jan. 31, 2014
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STARS v1.2

University of Massachusetts Amherst
OP-12: Office Paper Purchasing

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 0.80 / 2.00 Ezra Small
Sustainability Manager
Physical Plant
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Does the institution have an institution-wide stated preference to purchase recycled content office paper?:
Yes

The URL where the recycled paper policy, directive, or guidelines are posted:
A brief description of steps the institution has taken to ensure that the purchasing policy, directives, or guidelines are followed :

These guidelines are posted on the Procurement pages of the UMass Amherst Website, where all of the forms and information are available.

In addition, the University’s office supply contract thru W.B Mason identifies green and recycled cleaning and paper products that will replace non-green products so that end users have a choice when they order.

The pdf is available here: http://www.umass.edu/procurement/policies/Green%20Goal.pdf


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 :
1,163.50 US/Canadian $

Expenditures on 30-49 percent recycled-content office paper :
118,154.77 US/Canadian $

Expenditures on 50-69 percent recycled-content office paper :
464.13 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 :
3,263.03 US/Canadian $

Total expenditures on office paper :
251,367 US/Canadian $

Data source(s) and notes about the submission:

This data comes from the vendor (W.B. Mason) campus sales manager.


This data comes from the vendor (W.B. Mason) campus sales manager.

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