Overall Rating Gold - expired
Overall Score 70.52
Liaison Ruairi O'Mahony
Submission Date Aug. 10, 2016
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STARS v2.1

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

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 0.77 / 1.00 Tyler Arrigo
Program Coordinator- Sustainability
Office of Sustainability
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Cleaning Products 

Total expenditures on cleaning products:
213,407 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):
109,105 US/Canadian $

Janitorial Paper Products 

Total expenditures on janitorial paper products:
245,117 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):
245,117 US/Canadian $

Percentage of expenditures on cleaning and janitorial products that are third party certified to meet recognized sustainability standards:
77.25

A brief description of the time period from which the figures reported above are drawn (i.e. one-year time period or representative sample):
This is one year of data from Fiscal Year 2016 (July 1, 2015 through June 30, 2016)

Optional Fields 

The website URL where information about the programs or initiatives is available:
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Additional documentation to support the submission:
Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
The information on certifications was provided to us from our primary vendor for all cleaning and janitorial products.

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