Overall Rating Gold
Overall Score 75.29
Liaison Ezra Small
Submission Date Feb. 17, 2023

STARS v2.2

University of Massachusetts Amherst
OP-13: Cleaning and Janitorial Purchasing

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 0.42 / 1.00 Ezra Small
Sustainability Manager
Physical Plant
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Cleaning products 

Total annual expenditures on cleaning products:
423,630.19 US/Canadian $

Annual expenditures on certified green cleaning products:
246,821.30 US/Canadian $

Janitorial paper products 

Total annual expenditures on janitorial paper products:
408,591.23 US/Canadian $

Annual expenditures on certified green janitorial paper products:
106,116.84 US/Canadian $

A brief description of the time period on which the figures reported above are based :
This data is a one year time period of purchasing in FY22 (July 1, 2021-June 30, 2022)

Metric used in scoring

Percentage of expenditures on cleaning and janitorial products that are third party certified to meet recognized sustainability standards:
42.41

Optional Fields 

Website URL where information about the institution’s cleaning and janitorial purchasing is available:
Additional documentation to support the submission:
Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
This data was provided by UMass Admin & Finance department who ran BuyWays reports for all purchases with commodity codes that fit these purchasing categories. For this report, a student intern Shane Grant performed the data analysis.

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