Overall Rating | Gold - expired |
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Overall Score | 67.68 |
Liaison | John Gardner |
Submission Date | May 31, 2016 |
Executive Letter | Download |
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
OP-14: Office Paper Purchasing
Status | Score | Responsible Party |
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0.62 / 1.00 |
John
Gardner Sustainability Planning & Policy Analyst Office of Sustainability |
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?:
A copy of the paper purchasing policy, directive or guidelines:
The paper purchasing policy, directive or guidelines:
A brief description of steps the institution has taken to ensure that the purchasing policy, directives, or guidelines are followed :
Does the institution wish to pursue Part 2 of this credit (expenditures on office paper)?:
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 | 0 US/Canadian $ |
30-49 percent | 160,355 US/Canadian $ |
50-69 percent | 0 US/Canadian $ |
70-89 percent (or FSC Mix label) | 0 US/Canadian $ |
90-100 percent (or FSC Recycled label) | 29,124 US/Canadian $ |
Total expenditures on office paper :
The website URL where information about the paper purchasing policy, directive, or guidelines is available:
Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
UWM purchased roughly $189,479 on office paper products in Fiscal Year 2015, primarily through UWM Print & Copy Services. Roughly 50% of all paper purchases is office paper distributed to copy machines on campus. Copy machine paper is either 30% post-consumer recycled content or FSC 100% Label paper in those departments that have participated in the Green Office Certification (39 departments). For Printing paper (not counted-$115,348 in FY15), almost all is FSC Mix (this is used for all offset printing -- flyers, brochures, booklets, postcards, etc.)
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