Overall Rating Gold - expired
Overall Score 70.84
Liaison Troy Goodnough
Submission Date June 2, 2015
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STARS v2.0

University of Minnesota, Morris
OP-14: Office Paper Purchasing

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 0.25 / 1.00 Troy Goodnough
Sustainability Director
Office of Sustainability
"---" indicates that no data was submitted for this field

Does the institution have an institution-wide stated preference to purchase office paper that has recycled content and/or is certified to meet multi-criteria sustainability standards for paper?:
Yes

A copy of the paper purchasing policy, directive or guidelines:
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The paper purchasing policy, directive or guidelines:

The entire University of Minnesota-system is directed by the Board of Regents Sustainability and Energy Efficiency policy from July 9, 2004 to improve our sustainability performance.

http://regents.umn.edu/sites/regents.umn.edu/files/policies/Sustain_Energy_Efficiency.pdf
http://purchasing.umn.edu/policy/sustain.html


A brief description of steps the institution has taken to ensure that the purchasing policy, directives, or guidelines are followed :

Morris recommends and encourages the purchase of recycled content paper of the highest possible content. Duplicating Services policy states that department should "purchase copy paper, legal pads, letterhead stationary, envelops, and other paper products made from recycled paper." Duplicating Services on campus provides recycled content options to customers.

Institutional documents, like Profile, our campus alumni magazine, are printed on post-consumer paper.


Does the institution wish to pursue Part 2 of this credit (expenditures on office paper)?:
No

Expenditures on office paper with the following levels of post-consumer recycled, agricultural residue, and/or FSC certified content::
Expenditure Per Level
10-29 percent ---
30-49 percent ---
50-69 percent ---
70-89 percent (or FSC Mix label) ---
90-100 percent (or FSC Recycled label) ---

Total expenditures on office paper :
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The website URL where information about the paper purchasing policy, directive, or guidelines is available:
Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
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