Overall Rating Silver - expired
Overall Score 60.60
Liaison Jay Price
Submission Date March 2, 2018
Executive Letter Download

STARS v2.1

University of Tennessee at Knoxville
OP-14: Office Paper Purchasing

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 0.46 / 1.00 Preston Jacobsen
Sustainability Manager
Facilities Services
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Total expenditures on office paper :
142,411 US/Canadian $

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 3,719.54 US/Canadian $
30-49 percent 81,975.08 US/Canadian $
50-69 percent 42,971.95 US/Canadian $
70-89 percent (or FSC Mix label) 175.80 US/Canadian $
90-100 percent (or FSC Recycled label) 5,568.58 US/Canadian $

Percentage of expenditures on office paper that is 90-100 percent post-consumer recycled and/or agricultural residue content and/or FSC Recycled label:
3.91

A brief description of the time period from which the figures reported above are drawn (i.e. one-year time period or representative sample):

These figures represent the cleaning and janitorial purchases made during the 2017 fiscal year (7/1/2016-6/30/17). A report of all purchases made via the eMarketPlace provided the majority of the data. Emails were sent to university departments to gather data on purchases that were made outside of the widely used e-procurement system.


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