Overall Rating Silver - expired
Overall Score 60.64
Liaison Eva Rocke
Submission Date June 30, 2021

STARS v2.2

University of Montana
OP-13: Cleaning and Janitorial Purchasing

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 0.62 / 1.00 Sam Gilbertson
graduate student
Office of Sustainability
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Cleaning products 

Total annual expenditures on cleaning products:
165,763.63 US/Canadian $

Annual expenditures on certified green cleaning products:
75,614.76 US/Canadian $

Janitorial paper products 

Total annual expenditures on janitorial paper products:
87,823.06 US/Canadian $

Annual expenditures on certified green janitorial paper products:
82,077.26 US/Canadian $

A brief description of the time period on which the figures reported above are based :
The figures above are a representative sample including the purchasing data from buildings of varying size and purpose on the UM campus. We used Fiscal Year 2019 data.

Metric used in scoring

Percentage of expenditures on cleaning and janitorial products that are third party certified to meet recognized sustainability standards:
62.18

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:
UM custodial services are in-house, not contracted out. The expenditures noted above are a sum of several buildings' custodial product purchasing on UM Campus to provide a representative sample.

Brian Fruit- Campus Recreation
E-mail- bfruit@mso.umt.edu
Phone- (406) 243-2804

Mae Ikerd- UM Dining
E-mail- mae.ikerd@mso.umt.edu
Phone- (406) 243-4041

Brandon Kress- Adams Center
E-mail- brandon.kress@mso.umt.edu
Phone- (406) 243-5355

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